Corales Puntacana Championship R1

Corales Puntacana 2022 R1

March 24-27
Corales Golf Club, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
$3,700,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Ben Martin started his round with a bogey and shot one more on the front nine before making six birdies in his last eight holes to close with a 6-under 66 and take a one-shot lead on a windy day in the Dominican Republic.

Corales Puntacana 2022 R1

“I’ve been putting great kind of leading up to this week and I had a four-footer for par on the first and missed it, so it was not the best way to start the day. But yeah, I did such a great job I feel like of just sort of staying in the moment and not getting ahead of myself or thinking about how well I was playing.

“11 was great. I think it was playing like 240 and I hit it in there inside
of 10 feet and made one. Got on a roll there starting, I think birdied the next hole, the par 5, and then three or four in a row to finish. Nos. 16, 17, 18 are tough holes coming down the stretch into the wind. Yeah, it was just, it’s the way you want to play golf, right? It felt easy and just kind of hitting it where I’m seeing it and getting some putts to go in.”

Corales Puntacana 2022 R1

“I think on the back nine you want to take advantage of the par-5s and 15 because finishing on 16, 17, 18s usually going to be into the wind and you really need to be in control of your golf ball. So if you can make a few birdies coming in and just kind of hold on and make a few pars, you feel like it’s a win.”

The American, whose only PGA Tour victory was at the Shriners Hospitals for Chilfren Open in 2014, has made only one start on Tour this year at the Puerto Rico Open where he missed the cut.

Corales Puntacana 2022 R1

Fellow American Adam Schenk lies in second place after scoring a bogey-free 67.

England’s Graeme McDowell carded a bogey-free 68 for a share of third place alongside Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Americans Vaughn Taylor and also bogey-free Hayden Buckley.

Corales Puntacana 2022 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Ben Martin	-6	66
2	Adam Schenk	-5	67
T3	Vaughn Taylor	-4	68
T3	Hayden Buckley	-4	68
T3	Graeme McDowell	-4	68
T3	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	-4	68
T7	David Lingmerth	-3	69
T7	Nate Lashley	-3	69
T7	Alex Smalley	-3	69
T7	Thomas Detry	-3	69
T7	Martin Trainer	-3	69
T7	Ryan Armour	-3	69
T7	Greyson Sigg	-3	69
T7	Brandon Wu	-3	69
T15	D.J. Trahan	-2	70
T15	Vince Whaley	-2	70
T15	Jason Dufner	-2	70
T15	Brandon Hagy	-2	70
T15	Tommy Gainey	-2	70
T15	Brian Stuard	-2	70
T15	Wyndham Clark	-2	70
T15	Andrew Novak	-2	70
T15	Chad Ramey	-2	70
T15	Seth Reeves	-2	70
T15	Robert Garrigus	-2	70
T15	Jhonattan Vegas	-2	70
T15	Wesley Bryan	-2	70
T15	Jonathan Byrd	-2	70
T15	Chase Seiffert	-2	70
T15	Dominic Bozzelli	-2	70
T15	Bryson Nimmer	-2	70
T32	Scott Brown	-1	71
T32	Joel Dahmen	-1	71
T32	Danny Willett	-1	71
T32	Cameron Percy	-1	71
T32	Sahith Theegala	-1	71
T32	Sean O’Hair	-1	71
T32	Hank Lebioda	-1	71
T32	Tyler Duncan	-1	71
T32	J.J. Henry	-1	71
T32	Seung-Yul Noh	-1	71
T32	David Skinns	-1	71
T43	Kevin Stadler	Par	72
T43	Bill Haas	Par	72
T43	Rafael Campos	Par	72
T43	Joshua Creel	Par	72
T43	Michael Gligic	Par	72
T43	Curtis Thompson	Par	72
T43	Rick Lamb	Par	72
T43	D.A. Points	Par	72
T43	Aaron Rai	Par	72
T43	Doc Redman	Par	72
T43	Nick Taylor	Par	72
T43	Mark Hubbard	Par	72
T43	Roger Sloan	Par	72
T43	Callum Tarren	Par	72
T43	Patrick Flavin	Par	72
T43	Ben Kohles	Par	72
T43	Andrew Filbert	Par	72
T60	Kevin Chappell	+1	73
T60	Austin Cook	+1	73
T60	John Huh	+1	73
T60	Grayson Murray	+1	73
T60	Greg Chalmers	+1	73
T60	Nicolai Hojgaard	+1	73
T60	Rasmus Hojgaard	+1	73
T60	Brett Drewitt	+1	73
T60	Jim Knous	+1	73
T60	Fabián Gómez	+1	73
T60	Bronson Burgoon	+1	73
T60	Trey Mullinax	+1	73
T60	Kramer Hickok	+1	73
T60	Scott Gutschewski	+1	73
T60	David Lipsky	+1	73
T60	Haotong Li	+1	73
T60	Jared Wolfe	+1	73
T60	Matthias Schwab	+1	73
T60	Nick Hardy	+1	73
T60	Dylan Wu	+1	73
T80	Brice Garnett	+2	74
T80	Hudson Swafford	+2	74
T80	Emiliano Grillo	+2	74
T80	Patrick Rodgers	+2	74
T80	Camilo Villegas	+2	74
T80	Adam Svensson	+2	74
T80	Victor Perez	+2	74
T80	Bo Hoag	+2	74
T80	Juan Jose Guerra	+2	74
T80	Justin Lower	+2	74
T80	Michael Balcar	+2	74
T80	Richard S. Johnson	+2	74
T80	George McNeill	+2	74
T80	David Hearn	+2	74
T80	Bo Van Pelt	+2	74
T80	Manuel Relancio	+2	74
T80	Willy Pumarol	+2	74
T97	Derek Ernst	+3	75
T97	Aaron Baddeley	+3	75
T97	Sung Kang	+3	75
T97	Kyle Stanley	+3	75
T97	Rafa Cabrera Bello	+3	75
T97	Dawie van der Walt	+3	75
T97	Kurt Kitayama	+3	75
T97	Kelly Kraft	+3	75
T97	Peter Uihlein	+3	75
T97	Chesson Hadley	+3	75
T97	Austin Smotherman	+3	75
T97	Paul Barjon	+3	75
109	Brian Davis	+4	76
T110	John Merrick	+5	77
T110	Max McGreevy	+5	77
T110	Jeronimo Esteve (a)	+5	77
T113	Martin Kaymer	+6	78
T113	Ricky Barnes	+6	78
115	Matt Gogel	+7	79
T116	Eric Axley	+8	80
T116	Hiram Silfa	+8	80
118	Ted Potter, Jr.	+12	84
119	Parker McLachlin	+15	87
120	Marcus Byrd	+16	88