Regardless of a double bogey on his closing gap, Patrick Reed shot a 5-under-par 67 for the first-round lead at LIV Golf Miami on Friday at Trump Nationwide Doral.
Reed started his spherical on the tenth gap and put seven birdies on his card, reaching 7 underneath with a tap-in on the par-5 eighth. However on the par-3 ninth, he missed the inexperienced extensive left and compounded the error by placing his second shot right into a bunker.
He nonetheless held a two-shot lead over Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson (3-under 69).
“I imply, the primary 17 had been nice,” Reed mentioned. “No, as a complete I performed strong. I hit the ball fairly effectively off the tee, hit some high quality iron pictures and made some putts, and I believe that is what it’s important to do round this place.
“… It was simply an unlucky end, however on the finish of the day, it is nonetheless a strong spherical of golf.”
In LIV Golf’s first U.S. occasion of 2025, it was becoming that the highest 4 gamers are all previous main champions, three of them with at the very least one inexperienced jacket to their identify with the Masters every week away.
Reed received the Masters in 2018. Mickelson has captured three inexperienced jackets, and Dustin Johnson received the 2020 version that was delayed to November.
Johnson had a three-birdie run at Nos. 14-16 late in his spherical to get to three underneath, whereas DeChambeau was regular with 4 birdies and only one bogey.
“Clearly it is a actually advantageous line to being that good or just a bit bit off, however yeah, I’ve bought lots of confidence in my recreation proper now,” Johnson mentioned.
DeChambeau’s staff, Crushers GC, additionally holds a slender two-shot lead within the staff competitors by means of one spherical. The four-man staff of DeChambeau, Charles Howell III, Englishman Paul Casey and India’s Anirban Lahiri mixed to go 2 underneath par, with Johnson’s 4Aces GC sitting second at even par.
