Charley Hull and associate Michael Brennan had been considered one of two groups to set a brand new scoring document at the Grant Thornton Invitational, posting a 17-under 55 on day one of many mixed-team occasion.
Lexi Thompson and Wyndham Clark are tied for the lead after additionally carding a 55 opening spherical, each groups making solely three pars within the scramble format.
Hull and Brennan at one stage went 13 straight holes with a birdie or an eagle, however needed to accept pars on the sixteenth and 18th holes.
Brennan, who began the yr on the PGA Tour of Americas and gained the Financial institution of Utah Championship on an exemption, was filling in for Daniel Berger who was initially attributable to associate Hull.
Thompson and Clark made birdie or eagle on 9 of the final 10 holes, with the one exception being the par-three sixteenth.
The 55 recorded by each pairs broke by one the earlier document spherical on the mixed-team occasion that includes PGA and LPGA Tour gamers that started three years in the past.
Nelly Korda and her associate Denny McCarthy are three photographs off the lead at 14 beneath
They maintain a two-shot lead over Lauren Coughlin and Andrew Novak on 15 beneath. Rose Zhang and Michael Kim, Nelly Korda and Denny McCarthy, and Jennifer Kupcho and Chris Gotterup are one additional again going into day two.
Defending champions Jake Knapp and Patty Tavatanakit had been seven beneath by six holes and performed the final seven holes in 5 beneath to submit a 59 that locations them 4 photographs off the tempo.
The format shifts to foursomes for Saturday, with Sunday’s ultimate spherical modified fourballs.
What’s the Grant Thornton Invitational?
The 54-hole competitors is a mixed-team occasion that sees 16 LPGA Tour and 16 PGA Tour professionals compete collectively in a novel co-sanctioned event.
The three-day event affords three totally different codecs of crew play and permits the 32-player discipline to compete for equal prize cash and visibility.
It’s the second successive yr the event has featured on the schedule, having been launched in 2023 as the primary co-sanctioned occasion between the LPGA Tour and PGA Tour because the JCPenney Basic in 1999.
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