The Honda Classic R1

Honda Classic 2021 R1
March 11-14
PGA National (Champion), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
$7,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

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Matt Jones tied the course record set by Brian Harman in 2012 at PGA National with a bogey-free 9-under 61 to take a three-shot lead on a windy day in Florida.

“I play golf for a living,” said Jones. “I mean, I should be able to shoot a good golf score occasionally. It doesn’t happen as much as I want. But yes, I’m very happy with it. I was very calm, I was very relaxed out there. I’m normally a bit more amped-up and hyped-up and I had a different goal this week, to be a little more calm than normally and walk slower.”

“I was just managing the golf course and hitting good shots.”

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Jones has won once on the PGA Tour, at the 2014 Houston Open, and has failed to make the cut in a major since the 2016 Open Championshop. His highest finish at The Honda so far was a tie for fourth in 2008.

“That’s an incredible round of golf,” said Lee Westwood (70). “Could be the round of the year, 61 around here, when it’s flat calm, impressive. But when there’s a 15-, 20-mile-an-hour wind blowing, greens are fast, a lot of crosswinds, that’s an incredible round of golf.”

Aaron Wise and Russell Henley shot the next best score, 64, since Rory McIlroy and Russell Knox shot 63s in 2014.

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Graeme McDowell on the other hand made quadruple bogey at the 15th and double bogey at the 17th for a 9-over 79.

“It’s just so hard, so tricky,” said Lowry. “There’s a lot of disaster holes.”

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Matt Jones	-9	61
T2	Russell Henley *	-6	64
T2	Aaron Wise	-6	64
T4	Joseph Bramlett	-4	66
T4	Kevin Chappell	-4	66
T4	Cameron Davis *	-4	66
T4	Scott Harrington *	-4	66
T4	Steve Stricker	-4	66
T9	William Gordon *	-3	67
T9	Zach Johnson *	-3	67
T9	Shane Lowry *	-3	67
T9	Cheng Tsung Pan *	-3	67
T9	Chase Seiffert	-3	67
T9	Cameron Tringale	-3	67
T15	Jason Dufner	-2	68
T15	Harry Higgs *	-2	68
T15	Mark Hubbard *	-2	68
T15	Mackenzie Hughes	-2	68
T15	John Huh *	-2	68
T15	Sungjae Im	-2	68
T15	Chris Kirk	-2	68
T15	Nate Lashley	-2	68
T15	Adam Long	-2	68
T15	Denny McCarthy	-2	68
T15	Sepp Straka *	-2	68
T15	D.J. Trahan *	-2	68
T27	Keegan Bradley	-1	69
T27	Bronson Burgoon	-1	69
T27	Brandon Hagy	-1	69
T27	J.B. Holmes	-1	69
T27	Chase Koepka *	-1	69
T27	William McGirt *	-1	69
T27	Keith Mitchell	-1	69
T27	Joaquin Niemann *	-1	69
T27	Cameron Percy *	-1	69
T27	Sam Ryder *	-1	69
T27	Adam Scott *	-1	69
T27	Robert Streb *	-1	69
T27	Kevin Streelman *	-1	69
T27	Camilo Villegas	-1	69
T27	Jimmy Walker *	-1	69
T27	Richy Werenski	-1	69
T43	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	E	70
T43	Ryan Armour	E	70
T43	Rafael Campos	E	70
T43	Wyndham Clark	E	70
T43	Erik Compton *	E	70
T43	Rickie Fowler	E	70
T43	Jim Furyk *	E	70
T43	Lucas Herbert	E	70
T43	Jim Herman	E	70
T43	Russell Knox *	E	70
T43	Satoshi Kodaira	E	70
T43	Tyler McCumber *	E	70
T43	Matthew NeSmith	E	70
T43	Seung-Yul Noh	E	70
T43	Ted Potter, Jr. *	E	70
T43	Chez Reavie	E	70
T43	Patrick Rodgers	E	70
T43	Charl Schwartzel	E	70
T43	Lee Westwood	E	70
T43	Erik van Rooyen	E	70
T63	Scott Brown *	1	71
T63	Stewart Cink *	1	71
T63	Brice Garnett *	1	71
T63	Brian Gay	1	71
T63	Lucas Glover	1	71
T63	Bo Hoag *	1	71
T63	Beau Hossler	1	71
T63	Patton Kizzire	1	71
T63	Kelly Kraft	1	71
T63	Phil Mickelson *	1	71
T63	Alex Noren	1	71
T63	Henrik Norlander	1	71
T63	Ian Poulter *	1	71
T63	Roger Sloan *	1	71
T63	Stephen Stallings Jr. *	1	71
T63	Michael Thompson *	1	71
T63	Harold Varner III *	1	71
T63	Jhonattan Vegas	1	71
T63	Xinjun Zhang	1	71
T82	Byeong Hun An *	2	72
T82	Doug Ghim *	2	72
T82	Michael Gligic *	2	72
T82	Talor Gooch *	2	72
T82	Adam Hadwin	2	72
T82	Padraig Harrington *	2	72
T82	Anirban Lahiri *	2	72
T82	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	2	72
T82	Ryan Moore	2	72
T82	Pat Perez *	2	72
T82	Adam Schenk	2	72
T82	Hudson Swafford	2	72
T82	Nick Taylor *	2	72
T82	Martin Trainer	2	72
T96	K.J. Choi *	3	73
T96	David Hearn	3	73
T96	Brendan Steele *	3	73
T96	Kris Ventura *	3	73
T96	Vincent Whaley *	3	73
T101	Wesley Bryan	4	74
T101	Austin Cook	4	74
T101	Tyler Duncan *	4	74
T101	Rhein Gibson	4	74
T101	Chesson Hadley *	4	74
T101	Tom Hoge *	4	74
T101	Michael Kim	4	74
T101	Tom Lewis *	4	74
T101	Troy Merritt *	4	74
T101	J.T. Poston	4	74
T101	Robby Shelton *	4	74
T101	Vijay Singh	4	74
T101	J.J. Spaun *	4	74
T101	Scott Stallings	4	74
T101	Matt Wallace *	4	74
T101	Brandon Wu *	4	74
T117	Rafa Cabrera Bello *	5	75
T117	Sebastian Cappelen *	5	75
T117	Dylan Frittelli	5	75
T117	Hank Lebioda *	5	75
T117	Luke List	5	75
T117	Peter Malnati	5	75
T117	Alan Morin *	5	75
T117	Rob Oppenheim *	5	75
T125	Luke Donald *	6	76
T125	Sung Kang *	6	76
T125	Maverick McNealy *	6	76
T125	Grayson Murray *	6	76
T125	Bo Van Pelt	6	76
T130	Martin Kaymer	7	77
T130	Hunter Mahan *	7	77
T130	Marcelo Rozo	7	77
T130	Vaughn Taylor	7	77
T130	Zach Zaback	7	77
T135	Ryo Ishikawa	8	78
T135	Jamie Lovemark *	8	78
T135	Henrik Stenson	8	78
T138	Andrew Landry *	9	79
T138	Graeme McDowell *	9	79
T138	Rory Sabbatini	9	79
T138	Brian Stuard *	9	79
142	Kamaiu Johnson	11	81
WD	James Hahn	E
WD	Sean O’Hair	E
* Player started on the back nine