The Honda Classic R1

February 24-26
PGA National (Champion), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
$8,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

 

Kurt Kitayama signed for a 64, in spite of a single bogey at the 14th, to take the Honda Classic lead on Thursday.

“I think anything under par out here is really good. You’ve just got to watch the wind and see what happens.

“It’s playing tough. I don’t think you get an easy day out here. But the conditions are – like the conditions of the course are perfect. It’s just really tough.”

 

The American’s score is his best in sixty-nine rounds on the PGA Tour. His opening round included a career-best run of four back-to-back birdies.

“I felt like I’ve been playing well, and I’ve started to figure out my putting to kind of find this kind of round.”

One shot behind at 5-under, fellow Americans Daniel Berger and Chris Kirk are tied in second place alongside Slovakia’s Rory Sabbatini.

“The greens are – I’m expecting them to get a little firmer as the week goes on,” said Berger. “You just have to be so on point here. I feel like there’s not really any give to just kind of an easy hole out there. Everything just seems so challenging.

“To come out here and not make a bogey for 18 holes is a great start, and just got to continue with that momentum for the rest of the week.”

Englishmen Aaron Rai and Danny Willett are tied in fifth place at 3-under alongside Americans Peter Uihlein and Andrew Kozan and Austrian Matthias Schwab.

 

 

Pos.	Player	Thru	To Par	R1
1	Kurt Kitayama	F*	-6	64
T2	Rory Sabbatini	F	-5	65
T2	Daniel Berger	F	-5	65
T2	Chris Kirk	F	-5	65
T5	Peter Uihlein	F*	-3	67
T5	Aaron Rai	F*	-3	67
T5	Andrew Kozan	F*	-3	67
T5	Danny Willett	F	-3	67
T5	Matthias Schwab	F	-3	67
T10	Mito Pereira	F*	-2	68
T10	Dylan Frittelli	F*	-2	68
T10	Billy Horschel	F*	-2	68
T10	Cameron Young	F*	-2	68
T10	William McGirt	F	-2	68
T10	Brooks Koepka	F*	-2	68
T10	Patrick Rodgers	F*	-2	68
T10	Dylan Wu	F	-2	68
T10	Martin Contini	F	-2	68
T10	Ryan Palmer	F*	-2	68
T10	Garrick Higgo	F*	-2	68
T10	Wesley Bryan	F*	-2	68
T10	Doug Ghim	F*	-2	68
T10	Bronson Burgoon	F	-2	68
T10	Seung-Yul Noh	F	-2	68
T10	Stephan Jaeger	F*	-2	68
T10	Callum Tarren	F*	-2	68
T10	David Lipsky	F*	-2	68
T28	Erik Compton	F	-1	69
T28	Lucas Glover	F	-1	69
T28	Sung Kang	F	-1	69
T28	Beau Hossler	F	-1	69
T28	Tommy Fleetwood	F*	-1	69
T28	Russell Knox	F*	-1	69
T28	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	F*	-1	69
T28	Adam Svensson	F	-1	69
T28	Alex Noren	F	-1	69
T28	Jhonattan Vegas	F	-1	69
T28	Taylor Pendrith	F	-1	69
T28	Lee Westwood	F	-1	69
T28	Gary Woodland	F	-1	69
T28	Martin Trainer	F*	-1	69
T28	Roger Sloan	F*	-1	69
T28	Kramer Hickok	F*	-1	69
T28	Chase Seiffert	17	-1	—
T45	Mark Hubbard	F	Par	70
T45	Bill Haas	F	Par	70
T45	Nate Lashley	F*	Par	70
T45	C.T. Pan	F*	Par	70
T45	J.T. Poston	F	Par	70
T45	Shane Lowry	F*	Par	70
T45	Charles Howell III	F	Par	70
T45	Brian Stuard	F	Par	70
T45	Patrick Reed	F*	Par	70
T45	Jim Herman	F	Par	70
T45	Joaquin Niemann	F*	Par	70
T45	Mackenzie Hughes	F*	Par	70
T45	Sam Stevens	F*	Par	70
T45	Max McGreevy	F	Par	70
T45	Michael Gligic	F*	Par	70
T45	Ben Kohles	F*	Par	70
T45	K.H. Lee	F*	Par	70
T45	Curtis Thompson	F*	Par	70
T45	Austin Smotherman	F*	Par	70
T45	Davis Riley	F*	Par	70
T65	Brice Garnett	F*	+1	71
T65	Sepp Straka	F	+1	71
T65	Sam Ryder	F*	+1	71
T65	Michael Thompson	F	+1	71
T65	Harry Higgs	F*	+1	71
T65	Adam Schenk	F	+1	71
T65	J.J. Spaun	F*	+1	71
T65	Alex Smalley	F*	+1	71
T65	Kyle Stanley	F	+1	71
T65	Nick Watney	F*	+1	71
T65	Denny McCarthy	F	+1	71
T65	Lee Hodges	F	+1	71
T65	Ian Poulter	F*	+1	71
T65	Chris Stroud	F*	+1	71
T65	Richy Werenski	F*	+1	71
T65	Keith Mitchell	F	+1	71
T65	Hank Lebioda	F	+1	71
T65	Kevin Streelman	F*	+1	71
T65	Taylor Moore	F	+1	71
T65	Chase Koepka	F*	+1	71
T65	Paul Barjon	17	+1	—
T86	Ryan Armour	F	+2	72
T86	Brandon Hagy	F	+2	72
T86	Robert Streb	F	+2	72
T86	Luke Donald	F	+2	72
T86	Austin Cook	F	+2	72
T86	John Huh	F	+2	72
T86	Andrew Novak	F	+2	72
T86	Jim Knous	F*	+2	72
T86	Rick Lamb	F	+2	72
T86	Matthew NeSmith	F*	+2	72
T86	Trey Mullinax	F	+2	72
T86	Lucas Herbert	F	+2	72
T86	Brian Harman	F*	+2	72
T86	Rickie Fowler	F	+2	72
T86	Aaron Wise	F*	+2	72
T86	Brendan Steele	F	+2	72
T86	Seth Reeves	F	+2	72
T86	Joshua Creel	F*	+2	72
T104	Anirban Lahiri	F*	+3	73
T104	Justin Lower	F*	+3	73
T104	Padraig Harrington	F*	+3	73
T104	Vaughn Taylor	F*	+3	73
T104	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	F*	+3	73
T104	Kevin Tway	F	+3	73
T104	Henrik Stenson	F*	+3	73
T104	Matt Jones	F	+3	73
T112	Charl Schwartzel	F	+4	74
T112	Brendon Todd	F	+4	74
T112	Zach Johnson	F*	+4	74
T112	Camilo Villegas	F*	+4	74
T112	Alan Morin	F	+4	74
T112	Kelly Kraft	F	+4	74
T112	Grayson Murray	F*	+4	74
T112	Sungjae Im	F	+4	74
T112	Dawie van der Walt	F*	+4	74
T112	Brett Drewitt	F*	+4	74
T112	Kyle Westmoreland	F	+4	74
T123	Vince Whaley	F	+5	75
T123	Louis Oosthuizen	F	+5	75
T123	Doc Redman	F*	+5	75
T123	Greyson Sigg	F*	+5	75
T123	Chad Ramey	F	+5	75
T128	Brian Gay	F	+6	76
T128	Jimmy Walker	F*	+6	76
T128	Nick Hardy	F*	+6	76
T128	Nicolai Hojgaard	17	+6	—
T132	Hayden Buckley	F*	+7	77
T132	Tyler McCumber	F	+7	77
T132	Brandon Wu	F	+7	77
T132	David Skinns	F	+7	77
T132	Fabián Gómez	F*	+7	77
T132	Nick Taylor	F	+7	77
T132	Jason Dufner	F	+7	77
T139	Satoshi Kodaira	F*	+8	78
T139	Martin Kaymer	F*	+8	78
T139	Hudson Swafford	F	+8	78
T139	Stewart Cink	F*	+8	78
T139	Jared Wolfe	F	+8	78
144	Matthew Wolff	F	+11	81
	* Player started on the back nine