Shriners Children’s Open R1

Children’s Open 2021 R1
October 07-10
TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada
$7,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Sung Kang’s opening round in the Shriners Children’s Open wasn’t flawless, marred by a bogey at the par-4 3rd hole, but he closed with an eagle at the par-5 9th for a 61 and a two-shot lead at 10-under in Las Vegas.

Children’s Open 2021 R1

“Last few weeks I wasn’t driving it very good, but my iron play was pretty sharp and my putting was pretty good. So I was just thinking if I can get my driver somewhere in play I could actually score better. And we figured something out on Tuesday and started driving it a lot better and I drove it quite better than last few weeks.

“We worked on a little bit of swing technique stuff. So I don’t normally look at my swing with a video too much, I don’t like to do it, but we started looking at it probably a couple weeks ago, so start fixing one thing probably every week. So we had some issues like probably five six issues and we’re trying to take one out of play like every week. So we fix a couple things last week and then it’s still sometimes not there, so we try to fix something else and it helped out. I was extending too much on the back swing, so I try to get my belly just more flexed and then down pointing more onto the ground and that just helped me hit it a little further and straighter.”

Children’s Open 2021 R1

Fellow South Korean Sungjae Im produced a bogey free 63 featuring an eagle and five consecutive birdies on the back nine for a share of second place alongside Americans Charley Hoffman and Chad Ramey.

“It was one of those rounds where my good shots turned out pretty good and my bad shots I got away with a couple good bounces from errant tee shots that weren’t really good that bounced back in the fairway then I made some good mid-range putts and I made all my shots that I hit pretty close,” said Hoffman. “So it was one of those rounds that I don’t know if I could have really shot much lower, there was, I made a sloppy bogey on the drivable 15th, but besides that, I mean I really couldn’t shave too much more off the round. I’m happy with what I did and I got the afternoon to figure out some ball striking things that I want to improve on.

Children’s Open 2021 R1

Five players are tied at 7-under including American Matthew Wolff who lost in the playoff last year.

Only nineteen players in a field of 144 were over par, not unusual in Las Vegas as last year’s cut was set at 7-under.

“You get no wind, you can start attacking this golf course,” said Hoffman. “It starts blowing 15 to 20(mph), it’s a different animal.”

Children’s Open 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Sung Kang *	-10	61
T2	Sungjae Im	-8	63
T2	Charley Hoffman	-8	63
T2	Chad Ramey	-8	63
T5	Adam Schenk *	-7	64
T5	Talor Gooch	-7	64
T5	Chesson Hadley *	-7	64
T5	Matt Jones *	-7	64
T5	Matthew Wolff	-7	64
T10	Nick Taylor	-6	65
T10	Hideki Matsuyama *	-6	65
T10	Louis Oosthuizen	-6	65
T10	Taylor Pendrith	-6	65
T10	Brandon Hagy *	-6	65
T10	Anirban Lahiri *	-6	65
T10	Rory Sabbatini	-6	65
T17	Cameron Tringale	-5	66
T17	Corey Conners *	-5	66
T17	William McGirt	-5	66
T17	Seamus Power *	-5	66
T17	Matt Kuchar *	-5	66
T17	Tom Hoge *	-5	66
T17	Hayden Buckley *	-5	66
T17	Mito Pereira *	-5	66
T17	Alex Smalley *	-5	66
T17	Sam Burns	-5	66
T17	Lee Hodges *	-5	66
T17	Harry Higgs *	-5	66
T17	Harry Hall *	-5	66
T17	Taylor Moore *	-5	66
T31	Bronson Burgoon	-4	67
T31	Joel Dahmen *	-4	67
T31	Cam Davis	-4	67
T31	Emiliano Grillo *	-4	67
T31	Adam Hadwin *	-4	67
T31	James Hahn *	-4	67
T31	Russell Henley	-4	67
T31	Garrick Higgo *	-4	67
T31	Viktor Hovland *	-4	67
T31	Charles Howell III	-4	67
T31	Jason Kokrak	-4	67
T31	Martin Laird	-4	67
T31	Nate Lashley *	-4	67
T31	Marc Leishman	-4	67
T31	Peter Malnati	-4	67
T31	Tyler McCumber	-4	67
T31	Ryan Moore *	-4	67
T31	Jesse Mueller	-4	67
T31	Henrik Norlander	-4	67
T31	Pat Perez *	-4	67
T31	Andrew Putnam *	-4	67
T31	Sam Ryder *	-4	67
T31	Greyson Sigg	-4	67
T31	Robert Streb *	-4	67
T31	Hudson Swafford	-4	67
T31	Camilo Villegas	-4	67
T31	Matt Wallace *	-4	67
T31	Nick Watney *	-4	67
T31	Chun-an Yu	-4	67
T60	Joseph Bramlett *	-3	68
T60	Paul Casey *	-3	68
T60	Wyndham Clark	-3	68
T60	Brian Gay *	-3	68
T60	Bill Haas	-3	68
T60	Brian Harman *	-3	68
T60	Jim Herman	-3	68
T60	Rasmus Højgaard	-3	68
T60	Patton Kizzire	-3	68
T60	Brooks Koepka	-3	68
T60	K.H. Lee *	-3	68
T60	Denny McCarthy *	-3	68
T60	Seth Reeves *	-3	68
T60	Charl Schwartzel *	-3	68
T60	Brandt Snedeker *	-3	68
T60	Scott Stallings	-3	68
T60	Brian Stuard	-3	68
T60	Martin Trainer *	-3	68
T60	Jimmy Walker	-3	68
T60	Richy Werenski *	-3	68
T60	Aaron Wise	-3	68
T60	Jared Wolfe	-3	68
T60	Will Zalatoris	-3	68
Projected Cut: ( -3 )
T83	Jonas Blixt *	-2	69
T83	Stewart Cink *	-2	69
T83	Doug Ghim *	-2	69
T83	Lucas Glover	-2	69
T83	Mark Hubbard *	-2	69
T83	Kelly Kraft	-2	69
T83	Adam Long *	-2	69
T83	Matthew NeSmith *	-2	69
T83	Carlos Ortiz *	-2	69
T83	Ryan Palmer *	-2	69
T83	J.T. Poston *	-2	69
T83	Ian Poulter	-2	69
T83	Davis Riley *	-2	69
T83	Michael Thompson *	-2	69
T83	Curtis Thompson	-2	69
T83	Danny Willett *	-2	69
T99	Zach Johnson *	-1	70
T99	Si Woo Kim	-1	70
T99	Kevin Kisner	-1	70
T99	Graeme McDowell *	-1	70
T99	Maverick McNealy	-1	70
T99	Keith Mitchell *	-1	70
T99	Francesco Molinari	-1	70
T99	Aaron Rai	-1	70
T99	Adam Scott *	-1	70
T99	J.J. Spaun *	-1	70
T99	Sahith Theegala	-1	70
T99	Cameron Young	-1	70
T111	Abraham Ancer	E	71
T111	Harris English *	E	71
T111	Andrew Landry	E	71
T111	Trey Mullinax *	E	71
T111	Chez Reavie *	E	71
T111	Doc Redman *	E	71
T111	Patrick Reed *	E	71
T111	Webb Simpson	E	71
T111	Roger Sloan	E	71
T111	Brendan Steele	E	71
T111	Sepp Straka	E	71
T111	Kevin Streelman	E	71
T111	Adam Svensson *	E	71
T111	Kyle Westmoreland *	E	71
T111	Erik van Rooyen	E	71
T126	Rickie Fowler	+1	72
T126	Dylan Frittelli	+1	72
T126	Lanto Griffin *	+1	72
T126	Stephan Jaeger	+1	72
T126	Russell Knox *	+1	72
T126	Hank Lebioda	+1	72
T126	Luke List *	+1	72
T126	Joaquin Niemann	+1	72
T126	Seung-Yul Noh	+1	72
T126	Scott Piercy *	+1	72
T136	Kevin Chappell	+2	73
T136	Brice Garnett	+2	73
T136	Jin Jeong *	+2	73
T136	Troy Merritt	+2	73
T136	Kyle Stanley	+2	73
T136	Kevin Tway	+2	73
T136	Brandon Wu	+2	73
143	Scottie Scheffler	+3	74
144	Sebastián Muñoz	+4	75
* Player started on the back nine