Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen and PGA Tour rookie Cristobal Del Photo voltaic of Chile every posted a 9-under-par 61 to share the first-round lead on the RBC Canadian Open on Thursday in Caledon, Ontario.
Olesen and Del Photo voltaic took full benefit of TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley within the venue’s PGA Tour debut. They personal a one-shot lead over Cameron Champ; Jake Knapp is alone in fourth at 7-under 63.
Shane Lowry of Eire went out in 5-under 30 on his solution to a spherical of 64. He’s tied for fifth with Rasmus Hojgaard of Denmark and Trey Mullinax.
The low Canadian for the day was Taylor Pendrith (65), who set the clubhouse lead within the morning wave earlier than a number of gamers handed him by. Defending champion Robert MacIntyre of Scotland is among the many a number of golfers knotted with him in eighth place at 5 underneath.
Del Photo voltaic birdied 10 of his first 16 holes to move Olesen for the outright lead and threaten a rating of 59. Nevertheless, he didn’t rise up and down from the bunker on the par-4 seventeenth gap and took his solely bogey of the day. He missed a 15-foot putt for birdie for the outright lead at No. 18.
Del Photo voltaic’s declare to fame is a spherical of 57 he shot on the Korn Ferry Tour in February 2024. It was the bottom spherical ever recorded in a PGA Tour-sanctioned match.
Olesen, in the meantime, has eight wins on the DP World Tour however is in search of his first title in the USA.
Two-time Canadian champion Rory McIlroy is at risk of lacking the reduce after capturing a 1-over 71, which he ended with consecutive bogeys at Nos. 8 and 9. The Northern Irishman is enjoying for the primary time since a T47 end on the PGA Championship.
–Subject Degree Media