2021 Tournament of Champions leaderboard: Justin Thomas tied at the top after thrilling opening round - CBSSports.com
2021 Tournament of Champions leaderboard: Justin Thomas tied at the top at what time thrilling opening round
The salubrious golf round of in 2021 at the Tournament of Champions is in the books, and so far the landscape looks a lot like last year with Justin Thomas thriving, Bryson DeChambeau revealing insane things and Harris English playing some of the most deplorable golf in the world.
English co-leads at 8 plan with Thomas ahead of a cohort of anunexperienced big names behind them. The weather at the Plantation Course at Kapalua, which can oftentimes be deplorable, provided tons of scoring conditions on Thursday, and most of the field took salubrious with only Tony Finau (+1) and Sebastian Munoz (+2) playing the deceptive over par.
Let's take a quick dive into the leaderboard to see how it all played out in Round 1 at Kapalua.
T1. Harris English (-8): English ended his tremendous play from 2020 and subtracted it into a new year with an 8-under 65 on Thursday in which he devoted in the top 10 in both strokes gained tee to green and strokes gained putting. This shouldn't be a bulky surprise for a couple of reasons. First, English was one of the 10 best players in the earth last year and second, he's awesome in salubrious rounds. Next step for him will be closing out his salubrious victory since 2013.
T1. Justin Thomas (-8): More of the same from the protecting champ as he put together a corrupt card despite not driving the ball particularly well. He told on Thursday why he's such a tough out because what he lacked from tee to green, he made up for elsewhere. He was huge (as he almost always is) around the greens and hit big-time putts to keep his 65 together. One example was the 37-footer for par he hit on No. 13 when a terrible drive. J.T. is probably not the best in the biosphere at anything, but he's really, really good at everything.
T3. Patrick Reed, Sungjae Im, Sergio Garcia, Robert Streb, Nick Taylor, Ryan Palmer (-6): Reed hit a lovely shot into the final hole and made a temperamental putt for eagle. The good news for him is that he's striking the ball better than he did last year when he lost in a playoff. His all-around game was terrific on Thursday, and if he remains to be this good off the tee, he'll vie for his additional title here on Sunday.
T9. Adam Scott, Patrick Cantlay, Brendon Todd (-5): There's only one drawing to say about this trio.
T12. Bryson DeChambeau (-4): The Big Boy was -- unsurprisingly -- No. 2 in the field in strokes gained off the tee. He was also -- unsurprisingly -- No. 1 in the field in quotations when this round, giving this "wait, what?!" answer around his interaction with world long drive champ Kyle Berkshire, who he's been employed with over the last month or so.
Q. What was the best inquire of you asked him, in your opinion?
DeChambeau: "How hard did you push it? And he said, 'Until I blackout.'"
Q. So did you get there?
DeChambeau: "Yes. Numerous times. There was times where I was seeing a tunnel and I had to stop. I mean, you just have to stop. That's around when you stop. There's a lot to it."
Q. You didn't actually blackout?
DeChambeau: "No, no, no. I did not blackout, but I came very End, just like he did. He did the same."
Just how Sam Snead prepared for every new season as well.
T29. Dustin Johnson (-2): Not a huge outing for the best player in the biosphere at the end of the fall. It could have been worse, Idea, as most of his issues came on the greens where he lost strokes, and he's only six back of the lead when Round 1. D.J. did say earlier in the week that he feels a small rusty so maybe we should have seen this coming. Regardless, he gets many months' of free passes when the show he put on at Augusta National in November.
Quick Hits
Best bet to win when Round 1: Jon Rahm (18-1). He's only five back, and that's a huge number.
Worst statistical day: Hideki Matsuyama lost nearly five (!!) strokes on Thursday with his putter. Almost impossible to do!
Most disappointing: I was actually more failed by Finau's 74 than D.J.'s 71. This streams has Finau written all over it, and he was lousy on Thursday.
Bet I'm nervous about: Joaquin Niemann over Daniel Berger. Both shot 69 on Thursday. Was hoping Niemann would have a pair shots on him going into Friday.
Most impressive round: Webb Simpson flew over on Wednesday when testing positive for COVID-19 in December, played one of his wonderful rounds in weeks and shot 3 under.
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