Butterfield Bermuda Championship R1

Bermuda Championship 2021 R1
October 28-31
Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda
$6,500,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Americans Brandon Hagy and Chad Ramey hold the clubhouse lead at 6-under after a difficult day in Bermuda. Wind and heavy rain caused a suspension of play in the morning and while it calmed somewhat in the afternoon gusts were still strong enough to render putting difficult.

Bermuda Championship 2021 R1

Hagy started in the afternoon, as did Ramey, and fired nine birdies, a bogey and a double bogey at the par-4 15th to close with a 65.

Bermuda Championship 2021 R1

“I was able to keep the ball down with driver and hit it solid, which is nice,” said Hagy, “I think that’s one of those situations where my ball speed kind of helps with the wind a little bit. I hit my putts really good today.

“I was walking down the 10th fairway, our first hole, and I saw 2 under was leading. I was like, wow, it’s playing difficult. I think it laid down a little bit for us, but it was still pretty stout. The eighth hole, our 17th hole, was a pretty stiff breeze, but I hit a lot of good putts and they went in. I think there’s going to be some times where you get gusts and the ball doesn’t go in, but you kind of have to keep your head down and keep trying to hit some good shots.”

Bermuda Championship 2021 R1

Ramey made six birdies and stayed bogey-free for his share of the lead at Port Royal just before play was suspended due to darkness.

“It was a really well-played round kind of all around on my part. It was a grind out there. I think the wind might have been blowing a little harder this morning, but it was still going really hard this afternoon. I was just doing the best I could do to keep the ball in position.”

Bermuda Championship 2021 R1

Fellow American Vincent Whaley produced five birdies, two bogeys and an eagle at the par-5 17th to close with a 66 taking solo third place at 5-under.

He is followed by a group of six players at 4-under and a group of five at 3-under.

Thirty three players in a field of 126 were under par when play was called only six of whom played in the morning.

The Butterfield Bermuda Championship is offering full FedExCup points this week because it is not taking place opposite the World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions in Shanghai which was cancelled once again this year due to the pandemic.

Bermuda Championship 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	Thru	R1
T1	Brandon Hagy	-6	F*	65
T1	Chad Ramey	-6	F*	65
3	Vincent Whaley	-5	F	66
T4	Danny Lee	-4	F	67
T4	Garrick Higgo	-4	F	67
T4	Seamus Power	-4	F	67
T4	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	-4	F*	67
T4	David Skinns	-4	F	67
T4	Justin Lower	-4	F*	67
T10	Greyson Sigg	-3	F*	68
T10	Austin Eckroat	-3	F*	68
T10	Patrick Rodgers	-3	F	68
T10	Patrick Reed	-3	F	68
T10	Dylan Frittelli	-3	F	68
T15	Seth Reeves	-2	F*	69
T15	Scott Gutschewski	-2	F	69
T15	Sean O’Hair	-2	F*	69
T15	D.A. Points	-2	F*	69
T15	David Hearn	-2	F*	69
T15	Patrick Flavin	-2	F*	69
T15	Alex Smalley	-2	F	69
T15	Ludvig Aberg (a)	-2	17*
T15	Curtis Thompson	-2	16*
T15	Adam Svensson	-2	16*
T25	Nick Watney	-1	F*	70
T25	Taylor Pendrith	-1	F	70
T25	Bo Hoag	-1	F	70
T25	Peter Malnati	-1	F*	70
T25	Graeme McDowell	-1	F	70
T25	Arjun Atwal	-1	F	70
T25	Kramer Hickok	-1	F	70
T25	Lucas Herbert	-1	F*	70
T25	Brandon Wu	-1	F*	70
T34	Hank Lebioda	E	F	71
T34	Matt Fitzpatrick	E	F*	71
T34	Scott Brown	E	F*	71
T34	Hayden Buckley	E	F*	71
T34	Aaron Rai	E	F*	71
T34	Ben Crane	E	F	71
T34	Chase Seiffert	E	F*	71
T34	Sangmoon Bae	E	F*	71
T34	Peter Uihlein	E	F	71
T34	Ben Martin	E	F	71
T34	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	E	F*	71
T34	Dylan Wu	E	16
T34	Jordan Gumberg	E	16*
T34	Davis Riley	E	15
T34	Michael Sims	E	15
T34	Sahith Theegala	E	14
T50	Russell Knox	+1	F	72
T50	Robert Garrigus	+1	F*	72
T50	Luke Donald	+1	F*	72
T50	Jonathan Byrd	+1	F	72
T50	Brett Drewitt	+1	F	72
T50	Lee Hodges	+1	F*	72
T50	Greg Chalmers	+1	F	72
T50	John Senden	+1	F*	72
T50	Denny McCarthy	+1	F*	72
T50	Stephan Jaeger	+1	F	72
T50	Harry Hall	+1	F	72
T50	Guido Migliozzi	+1	F	72
T50	John Merrick	+1	F*	72
T63	Kevin Stadler	+2	F	73
T63	J.J. Spaun	+2	F	73
T63	Ryan Armour	+2	F	73
T63	Daniel Chopra	+2	F*	73
T63	Max McGreevy	+2	F*	73
T63	Michael Kim	+2	F	73
T63	Seung-Yul Noh	+2	F	73
T63	Jason Dufner	+2	F	73
T63	Mito Pereira	+2	F*	73
T63	Joseph Bramlett	+2	F*	73
T63	Kyle Wilshire	+2	F*	73
T74	Adam Hadwin	+3	F*	74
T74	Mark Hubbard	+3	F	74
T74	Sepp Straka	+3	F	74
T74	David Lipsky	+3	F	74
T74	Erik Barnes	+3	F	74
T74	Jason Bohn	+3	F	74
T74	Ben Kohles	+3	F*	74
T74	Matt Hill	+3	F*	74
T74	Fabián Gómez	+3	F*	74
T74	Scott Stallings	+3	F*	74
T74	Olin Browne	+3	F*	74
T74	Johnson Wagner	+3	F	74
T74	Matthias Schwab	+3	16
T74	Kurt Kitayama	+3	16
T74	Thomas Detry	+3	15
T89	Anirban Lahiri	+4	F	75
T89	Chris Stroud	+4	F*	75
T89	Austin Cook	+4	F	75
T89	Brian Stuard	+4	F	75
T89	Brian Gay	+4	F*	75
T89	J.J. Henry	+4	F	75
T89	David Lingmerth	+4	F*	75
T89	Ted Purdy	+4	F	75
T89	Andrew Novak	+4	F*	75
T89	Andres Romero	+4	F*	75
T89	Danny Willett	+4	F	75
T89	Nick Hardy	+4	F*	75
T89	Callum Tarren	+4	15
T102	Matt Every	+5	F*	76
T102	Vaughn Taylor	+5	F	76
T102	Ted Potter, Jr.	+5	F*	76
T102	Tommy Gainey	+5	F	76
T102	Nick Taylor	+5	F*	76
T102	Jim Knous	+5	F*	76
T102	Damian Palanyandi (a)	+5	F	76
T102	Dawie van der Walt	+5	F	76
T102	Cameron Percy	+5	F*	76
T102	Austin Smotherman	+5	F*	76
T102	Chaka DeSilva	+5	F*	76
T113	Richard Johnson	+6	F*	77
T113	Ricky Barnes	+6	F*	77
T113	Martin Trainer	+6	F	77
T113	Camilo Villegas	+6	F*	77
T113	Matthew NeSmith	+6	F*	77
T113	John Pak	+6	F	77
T119	Beau Hossler	+7	F*	78
T119	Greg Koch	+7	F*	78
T121	Parker McLachlin	+8	F	79
T121	Jay McLuen	+8	F*	79
T123	John Rollins	+9	F	80
T123	Camiko Smith	+9	F	80
125	Brian Morris	+15	15
W/D	Brendon de Jonge	E		80
* Player started on the back nine