Fortinet Championship R1

Fortinet Championship 2021 R1
September 16-19
Silverado Resort and Spa North, Napa, California
$7,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Chez Reavie fired eight birdies and a single bogey at the par-4 14th to take the lead at the Fortinet Championship in California ahead of a crowded leaderboard on Thursday.

Fortinet Championship 2021 R1

“When it’s firm and fast out here, you’ve got to be in the fairways and then the fairways are that much tougher to hit so you really have to pick your spots and hit the right clubs off the tees to even give yourself a chance.

Fortinet Championship 2021 R1

“It was great. It was kind of a slow start but I told myself to stay patient, you have plenty of chances to make birdies, and I was able to do that coming in. But I was 1 over through six holes, I think. I was like, okay, stay patient, don’t become impatient. Yeah, fortunately I was able to make some birdies.

“I started hitting the ball better. I didn’t drive it great off the tee, I drove it better on the second nine today, so the first few holes I just kept hitting it in the rough and I had to be really patient and just kind of play safe and play for pars. Some of these holes when you’re playing for par, it’s no fun. I was able to hit some fairways on the back and give myself some good looks.”

Fortinet Championship 2021 R1

Fellow American Cameron Tringale shot a bogey-free 66 to take a share of second place alongside Canadian Adam Hadwin who made seven birdies and a bogey at the par-3 15th.

“I’ve been feeling really well the last few days,” said Hadwin. “My speed’s been really good, which gives you a lot of confidence, so that continued today. I’ve been seeing the lines well and got a few of them to drop.

“It’s a great golf course and I think it plays better when it gets firm and fast like this. There isn’t a ton of rough, but with it being so dry, you get flyers, you’ve got to play away from pins. The greens are firm, you’ve got to be spot on with your distances. I’m happy, good start, hopefully some more of that the next three.”

Fortinet Championship 2021 R1

Six players are tied in fourth place at 5-under and fourteen are tied for tenth at 4-under.

World number 1 Jon Rahm, a member of the European team in next week’s Ryder Cup, is feeling unwell and is in T104 after a 72.

“Not my best ball-striking day, a little tight today probably from having to be in
bed for so long yesterday. So a little tight, just didn’t feel as fluid as it usually does. Even with how I felt, I played a little bit better than I thought I was going to, to be honest. Started great, started to hit some good shots, too bad I couldn’t capitalize on some of the good chances early on.

“Towards the end a lot of times my mind just wasn’t in it, I was having a hard time focusing given the fact that I haven’t had a solid meal since Tuesday morning. It is what it is. I just started, I’m feeling good now, so get a good meal right now and rest up the rest of the day. We have three more days to go. You can’t win it today, you can certainly lose it and it wasn’t my best day.”

Fortinet Championship 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Chez Reavie	-7	65
T2	Cameron Tringale	-6	66
T2	Adam Hadwin	-6	66
T4	Nate Lashley	-5	67
T4	Max Homa	-5	67
T4	Scott Stallings	-5	67
T4	Troy Merritt	-5	67
T4	Jason Dufner	-5	67
T4	Mito Pereira	-5	67
T10	Patrick Rodgers	-4	68
T10	Si Woo Kim	-4	68
T10	Peter Uihlein	-4	68
T10	Wyndham Clark	-4	68
T10	Dawie van der Walt	-4	68
T10	John Augenstein	-4	68
T10	Harold Varner III	-4	68
T10	Maverick McNealy	-4	68
T10	Brandt Snedeker	-4	68
T10	Will Zalatoris	-4	68
T10	Austin Cook	-4	68
T10	Adam Schenk	-4	68
T10	Bronson Burgoon	-4	68
T10	Greyson Sigg	-4	68
T24	Bill Haas	-3	69
T24	Jamie Lovemark	-3	69
T24	Russell Knox	-3	69
T24	Jonathan Byrd	-3	69
T24	Sean O’Hair	-3	69
T24	Talor Gooch	-3	69
T24	Kevin Na	-3	69
T24	Nick Hardy	-3	69
T24	Scott Gutschewski	-3	69
T24	Justin Lower	-3	69
T24	Sam Ryder	-3	69
T24	Hideki Matsuyama	-3	69
T24	Marc Leishman	-3	69
T24	Patton Kizzire	-3	69
T24	Charley Hoffman	-3	69
T24	Scott Piercy	-3	69
T24	Sahith Theegala	-3	69
T41	Pat Perez	-2	70
T41	Ben Martin	-2	70
T41	J.J. Spaun	-2	70
T41	Webb Simpson	-2	70
T41	Emiliano Grillo	-2	70
T41	Danny Willett	-2	70
T41	Adam Long	-2	70
T41	Phil Mickelson	-2	70
T41	Kevin Tway	-2	70
T41	Sung Kang	-2	70
T41	Martin Trainer	-2	70
T41	Doug Ghim	-2	70
T41	Scott Brown	-2	70
T41	Aaron Rai	-2	70
T41	Seth Reeves	-2	70
T41	Dylan Wu	-2	70
T41	Justin Suh	-2	70
T41	Adam Svensson	-2	70
T41	David Skinns	-2	70
T41	Paul Barjon	-2	70
T41	Callum Tarren	-2	70
T41	D.J. Trahan	-2	70
T41	Beau Hossler	-2	70
T41	Tyler McCumber	-2	70
T41	Brendan Steele	-2	70
T41	Jim Herman	-2	70
T41	Matt Kuchar	-2	70
T41	Charles Howell III	-2	70
T41	Nick Taylor	-2	70
T41	Roger Sloan	-2	70
T41	Mark Hubbard	-2	70
T41	Vaughn Taylor	-2	70
T41	Joseph Bramlett	-2	70
T41	Jim Knous	-2	70
T41	Austin Smotherman	-2	70
T41	Andrew Novak	-2	70
T77	Peter Malnati	-1	71
T77	Kyle Stanley	-1	71
T77	Brendon Todd	-1	71
T77	J.B. Holmes	-1	71
T77	Hank Lebioda	-1	71
T77	Harry Higgs	-1	71
T77	Luke List	-1	71
T77	Danny Lee	-1	71
T77	Nick Watney	-1	71
T77	Lucas Herbert	-1	71
T77	Kevin Yu	-1	71
T77	Curtis Thompson	-1	71
T77	John Huh	-1	71
T77	Tom Hoge	-1	71
T77	Doc Redman	-1	71
T77	Cameron Percy	-1	71
T77	Kelly Kraft	-1	71
T77	C.T. Pan	-1	71
T77	William McGirt	-1	71
T77	Chesson Hadley	-1	71
T77	Aaron Baddeley	-1	71
T77	Vincent Whaley	-1	71
T77	Brandon Wu	-1	71
T77	Michael Gligic	-1	71
T77	Taylor Pendrith	-1	71
T77	Hayden Buckley	-1	71
T77	Turk Pettit	-1	71
T104	Andrew Putnam	E	72
T104	David Hearn	E	72
T104	Michael Kim	E	72
T104	Sepp Straka	E	72
T104	Michael Thompson	E	72
T104	Jon Rahm	E	72
T104	Chris Stroud	E	72
T104	Kristoffer Ventura	E	72
T104	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	E	72
T104	Ryan Armour	E	72
T104	Seung-Yul Noh	E	72
T104	Denny McCarthy	E	72
T104	Davis Riley	E	72
T104	Max McGreevy	E	72
T104	Bo Hoag	E	72
T104	Quade Cummins	E	72
T120	Lanto Griffin	+1	73
T120	Cameron Champ	+1	73
T120	Brice Garnett	+1	73
T120	Chase Seiffert	+1	73
T120	Lee Hodges	+1	73
T120	Trevor Werbylo	+1	73
T120	Jonas Blixt	+1	73
T120	Matthew NeSmith	+1	73
T120	James Hahn	+1	73
T120	Trey Mullinax	+1	73
T120	Joshua Creel	+1	73
T120	David Lipsky	+1	73
T120	Chad Ramey	+1	73
T133	Brandon Hagy	+2	74
T133	Kramer Hickok	+2	74
T133	Dylan Frittelli	+2	74
T133	Ted Potter, Jr.	+2	74
T133	Taylor Moore	+2	74
T133	Ryan Moore	+2	74
T133	Tyler Duncan	+2	74
T133	Kevin Stadler	+2	74
T133	Josh McCarthy	+2	74
T133	Ben Kohles	+2	74
T133	Brett Drewitt	+2	74
T144	Cameron Young	+3	75
T144	Jared Wolfe	+3	75
T144	Bo Van Pelt	+3	75
T144	Alex Smalley	+3	75
T144	Stephan Jaeger	+3	75
T149	Kurt Kitayama	+4	76
T149	Sebastián Muñoz	+4	76
T149	J.T. Poston	+4	76
T152	Andrew Landry	+5	77
T152	Brian Stuard	+5	77
T152	Hudson Swafford	+5	77
T155	Kevin Chappell	+6	78
T155	Michael Duncan	+6	78