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 |
