Wells Fargo, Tommy Fleetwood first leader
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The golfers of the PGA Tour begin a new challenge that crowds the rich calendar of the 2023 season. In fact, space for the Wells Fargo Championship (a prize pool of 20 million dollars), an event born in 2003 which in past years bore the name of Wachovia Championship and Quail Hollow Championship .
At the end of the first round, Tommy Fleetwood leads the standings.
Wells Fargo Championship, results
The Englishman closes the first round with a score of -6 (64 strokes) bogey free, and boasts a length of margin over the South Korean K.H.
Lee and the Americans Kevin Streelman, Taylor Moore, Xander Schauffele and Ryan Palmer. Very short ranking after the first 18 holes, with 57 golfers in just 6 shots. On the par 70 course of the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte (North Carolina, United States), the large group made up of the Australian Adam Scott, the South Korean Tom Kim, the Argentine Emiliano Grillo, and by the Americans Shith Theegala, Kramer Hickok, Chris Kirk, Patrick Cantlay, Wyndham Clark, and finally Matthew NeSmith..
-3 and thirteenth place for the returning Rory McIlroy, while the Norwegian Viktor Hovland has to settle for a debut on par. Muted debut for Francesco Molinari. The Turinese closes the round at +1 but is in full fight to overcome the cut.
In the Italian afternoon, space for the second round which will primarily serve to skim the shirts of a large leaderboard. As an amateur Tommy Fleetwood won the Scottish Amateur Stroke Championship in 2009 and finished second in several tournaments the following year, before turning pro after winning the English Amateur.
Making his pro debut at the Czech Open, he passed the cut and finished 67th. In September 2011 he won the Kazakhstan Open, part of the Challenge Tour, thus securing a place on the 2012 European Tour. In the first season he managed to keep the right to play on the European Tour thanks to a top ten finish at the South African Open, while in 2013 his first success came at the Johnnie Walker…
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Source : tennisworldusa
