Sanderson Farms Championship R1

Sanderson Farms 2021 R1
September 30 – October 03
Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi
$7,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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PGA Tour rookie Sahith Theegala, who only a few weeks ago was fighting for his Tour card at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, finished his opening round at the Sanderson Farms Championship with a bogey-free 64 to take the lead in Mississippi.

Sanderson Farms 2021 R1

“Just drove it really well. I was really working it well. I got my slider back, I was hitting a pretty good cut, probably 25 to 30 yard cut out there and this course kind of allows it because the trees around the tee box aren’t that close to the tees, so I was just working my ball flight in there and just felt really comfortable all day. Being in the fairway helps so much.

“I got a new driver after I missed the first cut at Korn Ferry finals, went to Ping, did a little bit of work there and they set me up with a new driver. It’s a longer driver. I’m like, if I’m going to hit it off line, I might as well hit it a little bit further and funny enough I’m hitting it way straighter. So that helped a little bit, seeing something new. Still getting comfortable with the driver, only had it a month now. But yeah it’s been really nice to see some of the work paying off and being in more fairways.” 

Sanderson Farms 2021 R1

Nick Watney and Harold Varner III are tied for second place at 7-under with Roger Sloan, Si Woo Kim and a bogey-free Kurt Kitayama one shot further behind in fourth place.

Sanderson Farms 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Sahith Theegala *	-8	64
T2	Nick Watney *	-7	65
T2	Harold Varner III *	-7	65
T4	Si Woo Kim	-6	66
T4	Kurt Kitayama *	-6	66
T4	Roger Sloan *	-6	66
T7	Adam Hadwin *	-5	67
T7	Patton Kizzire	-5	67
T7	Sungjae Im *	-5	67
T7	Corey Conners *	-5	67
T7	Lucas Glover	-5	67
T7	Taylor Moore *	-5	67
T7	Andy Ogletree *	-5	67
T7	Gary Woodland	-5	67
T7	Hayden Buckley	-5	67
T7	Cameron Young *	-5	67
T17	Stephan Jaeger	-4	68
T17	Lanto Griffin	-4	68
T17	Sung Kang	-4	68
T17	Doug Ghim *	-4	68
T17	Aaron Wise	-4	68
T17	Austin Cook	-4	68
T17	Vincent Whaley	-4	68
T17	Sam Burns *	-4	68
T17	Kevin Streelman *	-4	68
T17	Joel Dahmen *	-4	68
T17	Matthew Wolff *	-4	68
T17	Tyler Duncan	-4	68
T17	Andrew Landry	-4	68
T17	C.T. Pan	-4	68
T17	Henrik Norlander *	-4	68
T32	Doc Redman	-3	69
T32	Luke List	-3	69
T32	J.T. Poston	-3	69
T32	Martin Laird *	-3	69
T32	Denny McCarthy	-3	69
T32	William McGirt	-3	69
T32	Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra (a)	-3	69
T32	Lucas Herbert *	-3	69
T32	Brendan Steele	-3	69
T32	Rory Sabbatini *	-3	69
T32	Anirban Lahiri	-3	69
T32	J.J. Spaun	-3	69
T32	Dylan Frittelli *	-3	69
T32	Brandt Snedeker	-3	69
T32	Chesson Hadley	-3	69
T32	Brandon Wu *	-3	69
T32	Kyle Reifers *	-3	69
T32	Charley Hoffman *	-3	69
T50	Sergio Garcia	-2	70
T50	Peter Malnati	-2	70
T50	Will Zalatoris	-2	70
T50	Chris Kirk *	-2	70
T50	Paul Barjon	-2	70
T50	Ben Kohles *	-2	70
T50	Nick Hardy *	-2	70
T50	Joseph Bramlett	-2	70
T50	Nate Lashley	-2	70
T50	Jimmy Walker *	-2	70
T50	Adam Long *	-2	70
T50	Quade Cummins *	-2	70
T50	Brian Stuard *	-2	70
T50	Grant Hirschman	-2	70
T50	Dylan Wu	-2	70
T50	Trey Mullinax	-2	70
T50	Chad Ramey *	-2	70
T50	Michael Thompson	-2	70
T50	Sam Ryder	-2	70
T50	Emiliano Grillo *	-2	70
T50	Davis Thompson *	-2	70
T71	John Huh *	-1	71
T71	Patrick Rodgers *	-1	71
T71	Chez Reavie	-1	71
T71	Robert Streb	-1	71
T71	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	-1	71
T71	Matthias Schwab	-1	71
T71	Wyndham Clark *	-1	71
T71	Carlos Ortiz *	-1	71
T71	Brandon Hagy	-1	71
T71	John Augenstein	-1	71
T71	Davis Riley *	-1	71
T71	Callum Tarren	-1	71
T71	Seth Reeves *	-1	71
T71	Camilo Villegas *	-1	71
T71	Scott Stallings	-1	71
T71	Kramer Hickok	-1	71
T71	Russell Knox	-1	71
T71	Brian Gay *	-1	71
T71	Martin Trainer	-1	71
T71	Hudson Swafford *	-1	71
T71	Kevin Chappell *	-1	71
T71	Mito Pereira	-1	71
T71	Dawie van der Walt *	-1	71
T71	Ryan Moore *	-1	71
T71	Cohen Trolio (a)	-1	71
T71	David Lipsky *	-1	71
T71	Taylor Pendrith *	-1	71
T71	Tyler McCumber *	-1	71
T71	Cameron Tringale *	-1	71
T71	Sebastián Muñoz	-1	71
T101	Ryan Armour	E	72
T101	Lee Hodges *	E	72
T101	Max McGreevy	E	72
T101	Bo Van Pelt	E	72
T101	Keegan Bradley *	E	72
T101	Andrew Novak	E	72
T101	Curtis Thompson *	E	72
T101	Scott Gutschewski	E	72
T101	Brice Garnett	E	72
T101	Matt Wallace *	E	72
T101	Adam Schenk	E	72
T101	Bill Haas *	E	72
T101	Seamus Power *	E	72
T101	K.H. Lee *	E	72
T101	Brendon Todd	E	72
T101	Cam Davis *	E	72
T101	Mackenzie Hughes *	E	72
T101	Seung-Yul Noh	E	72
T119	Keith Mitchell	+1	73
T119	Zach Johnson *	+1	73
T119	Tom Hoge *	+1	73
T119	Bronson Burgoon *	+1	73
T119	Aaron Rai *	+1
T119	Jared Wolfe	+1	73
T119	Michael Gligic *	+1	73
T119	Sepp Straka *	+1	73
T127	Greg Sonnier	+2	74
T127	Adam Svensson	+2	74
T127	Matthew NeSmith *	+2	74
T127	Kevin Tway *	+2	74
T127	Nick Taylor	+2	74
T127	Joshua Creel	+2	74
T133	Brett Drewitt *	+3	75
T133	Scott Piercy	+3	75
T133	Jonas Blixt	+3	75
T133	Andrew Putnam *	+3	75
T133	Cody Gribble	+3	75
T138	Alex Smalley	+4	76
T138	Kelly Kraft	+4	76
T138	Sam Saunders *	+4	76
T138	David Skinns	+4	76
142	Greyson Sigg	+5	77
143	Richy Werenski *	+8	80
144	Kevin Stadler *	+11	83
* Player started on the back nine