Reed opens with 64 to take the lead in HSBC Champions
Reed opens with 64 to take the lead in HSBC Champions
Patrick Reed had a Ryder Cup he would like to forget and spent three weeks at home in Texas preparing to end the year strongly.
He was at his best on Thursday at the HSBC Champions.
Even in stormy conditions, Reed placed a birdie on every hole at Sheshan International and closed his bogey-free round with a 25-foot birdie putt for an 8 under 64, which gave him a two-shot lead over Tony Finau and Xander Schauffele . .
"I felt really good, because if you can go out and shoot rounds of this type in these kinds of conditions, you know you're going to have confidence when the wind comes down and perfect conditions exist," Reed said.
Schauffele also managed a round without a bogey in the wind strong enough to be a difference of two clubs at times. He saved the pair at the final hole at No. 9 from the rough right with an approach that narrowly cleared the water on a strip of fairway near the green, a pitch-and-run at 10 feet and another solid putt.
Matt Fitzpatrick had five consecutive birdies to overcome a difficult start and post a 67.
Brooks Koepka, in his debut in the No. 1 in the world, did not offer much emotion. He had 16 pairs, a bogey and a bird for a 72. He was stunned when his second shot in par 5 turned on the front of the green and in the water, forcing him to fight for the pair on the turn in Place of an easy or better birdie.
"I felt that I played well enough to shoot par 4 or 5 under par," Koepka said. "It was those impulse shots."
Reed was last seen winning a nonsensical singles match at Le Golf National after Europe was on the way to victory. The last thing that was heard was a telephone interview with The New York Times an hour after Europe won, blaming Jordan Spieth not to play together in the Ryder Cup and the US captain. UU Jim Furyk for leaving Reed at the bank twice during the week.
Reed, the Masters champion, went to his home in Houston and after a few days of rest he returned to work.
"Since then, my coach and I have been fine-tuning everything," Reed said. "I'm just trying to set goals to finish the year well."
Reed led a strong US presence in the leaderboard, nothing new in this year's World Golf Championship. The United States is trying to become the first country to have four players win the four World Golf Championships in a year after Phil Mickelson won the Mexico Championship, Bubba Watson won the Match Play and Justin Thomas won the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone.
Dustin Johnson would not think to contribute to that opportunity. Johnson lost a six-shot lead in the final round a year ago in the HSBC Champions, and was as crazy as ever to open with a 74 on Thursday.
He had more than 150 yards twice for his third shot in par 4, and double bogey on the 15th hole. He was happy to find his tee shot in par 5 and had to make a 10-foot putt just to rescue the bogey Johnson scratched the way back to 1 for the round to the consecutive bogeys.
Defensive champion Justin Rose, who last year recovered from eight shots to win after Johnson closed with a 77, landed some wild urges of his own but stunned those with many birdies in his round of 69.
The group of feature films was anything but that: Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Francesco Molinari combined to shoot 6 over the pair. Molinari, the British Open champion and star of the Ryder Cup as the first European with 5-0 mark in the week, made three consecutive bogeys throughout the turn and had no birds in the back.
McIlroy was also wild at times off the tee, although in reality it only cost him on the short 16th hole. He hit the trees reversing his wedge to play a left-handed shot, but then threw his flop shot into a bunker, threw it on the green and double bogey. It ended with a 72.
Reed, playing one hour before the final group, drove to the front of the 16th green for a two-putter birdie. He began to stretch his lead after making the turn, placing a 12-foot birdie putt on the No. 1, two birdie spots on the par 5 seconds and then hitting a wedge at 6 feet for birdie on the No. 3.
He looked at Birdie several times, and as good as his 64 on Thursday, it was the worst he could have shot.
"I was hitting the really solid ball," Reed said. "I was hitting irons where I looked and I could control it, not only in directional but also in the trajectories and what kind of heights I wanted to hit, I felt that was key because when there is wind, well I have to have total control over that. do what ".
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