Puerto Rico 2022 R1
March 03-06
Grand Reserve Golf Club, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
$3,700,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4
Started hot and never looked back. @ChaseSeiffert leads by 2 @PuertoRicoOpen with an opening 65. pic.twitter.com/g07ZeIU93e
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 3, 2022
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Michael Kim remained bogey-free on Thursday for a share of the lead alongside fellow American Chase Seiffert after carding 7-under 65s.
Puerto Rico 2022 R1
“Absolutely stoked,” said Seiffert. “We have wonderful conditions. I came out of the gates really putting well. That got my round off to a nice start. It seemed like every time I missed the green, it was an easy up-and-down. Just kind of stress-free golf.”
Nada mejor que las vistas del @PuertoRicoOpen. 😍 pic.twitter.com/G3ykzXFGg4
— PGATOUResp (@pgatouresp) March 3, 2022
Puerto Rico 2022 R1
Kim, who won the 2018 John Deere Classic, has since made only 15 cuts in 75 starts on the PGA Tour.
Fellow American Ryan Brehm lies one shot back in third place followed by Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Australia’s Aaron Baddeley in fourth at 5-under.
Puerto Rico 2022 R1
Puerto Rico 2022 R1
| Pos. | Player | To Par | R1 | |
| T1 | Chase Seiffert | -7 | 65 | |
| T1 | Michael Kim | -7 | 65 | |
| 3 | Ryan Brehm | -6 | 66 | |
| T4 | Kiradech Aphibarnrat | -5 | 67 | |
| T4 | Aaron Baddeley | -5 | 67 | |
| T6 | Vaughn Taylor | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Ben Kohles | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Nick Hardy | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Patrick Flavin | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Greg Chalmers | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Peter Uihlein | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Satoshi Kodaira | -4 | 68 | |
| T6 | Christopher Gotterup (a) | -4 | 68 | |
| T14 | Sangmoon Bae | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | D.A. Points | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Richy Werenski | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Sung Kang | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Brian Davis | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Rafa Cabrera Bello | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Tommy Gainey | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Nate Lashley | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Brandon Wu | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Andrew Novak | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Chad Ramey | -3 | 69 | |
| T14 | Justin Lower | -3 | 69 | |
| T26 | Brice Garnett | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | D.J. Trahan | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Kelly Kraft | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Matthias Schwab | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Rafael Campos | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Max McGreevy | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Jared Wolfe | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Mark Hensby | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Ricky Barnes | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Chan Kim | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Michael Gligic | -2 | 70 | |
| T26 | Callum Tarren | -2 | 70 | |
| T38 | Matt Every | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Bo Van Pelt | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Seung-Yul Noh | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Brian Stuard | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Austin Cook | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Kyle Stanley | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Curtis Thompson | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Brett Drewitt | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Seth Reeves | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Brett Stegmaier | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Josh Teater | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Chesson Hadley | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Scott Brown | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Jim Knous | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Spencer Ralston | -1 | 71 | |
| T38 | Christian Salzer | -1 | 71 | |
| T54 | Scott Gutschewski | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | John Rollins | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Cameron Percy | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Kevin Chappell | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Joseph Bramlett | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Ted Purdy | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | David Lingmerth | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Derek Ernst | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Robert Garrigus | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Bill Haas | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Eric Axley | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Dylan Wu | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Dawie van der Walt | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Edward Figueroa | Par | 72 | |
| T54 | Trevor Werbylo | Par | 72 | |
| T69 | Omar Uresti | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Carl Pettersson | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Grayson Murray | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Tyler Duncan | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Fabián Gómez | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Mark Hubbard | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Austin Smotherman | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Alejandro Tosti | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Bryson Nimmer | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | George McNeill | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Luke Donald | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Jason Bohn | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Victor Perez | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Heath Slocum | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Kevin Yu | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Bo Hoag | +1 | 73 | |
| T69 | Chris Couch | +1 | 73 | |
| T86 | Jonathan Kaye | +2 | 74 | |
| T86 | J.J. Henry | +2 | 74 | |
| T86 | Camilo Villegas | +2 | 74 | |
| T86 | Hiram Silfa | +2 | 74 | |
| T90 | Carlos Franco | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | Martin Trainer | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | John Huh | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | Parker McLachlin | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | Andres Romero | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | Richard S. Johnson | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | David Skinns | +3 | 75 | |
| T90 | Erick Morales (a) | +3 | 75 | |
| T98 | Ryan Armour | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | Bronson Burgoon | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | David Hearn | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | Charlie Wi | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | Kevin Stadler | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | Jim Herman | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | Kurt Kitayama | +4 | 76 | |
| T98 | John Merrick | +4 | 76 | |
| T106 | Roberto Nieves (a) | +5 | 77 | |
| T106 | Brendon de Jonge | +5 | 77 | |
| T106 | Joshua Creel | +5 | 77 | |
| T109 | Ben Martin | +6 | 78 | |
| T109 | Smylie Kaufman | +6 | 78 | |
| T111 | Jason Dufner | +7 | 79 | |
| T111 | Alan Morin | +7 | 79 | |
| T111 | Cody Gribble | +7 | 79 | |
| T111 | Skip Kendall | +7 | 79 | |
| T111 | Ben Crane | +7 | 79 | |
| T116 | Frank Lickliter II | +8 | 80 | |
| T116 | Austin Connelly | +8 | 80 | |
| T116 | Charlie Beljan | +8 | 80 | |
| T119 | Ryuji Imada | +9 | 81 | |
| T119 | Ted Potter, Jr. | +9 | 81 |
