The American Express R1

January 21-24
PGA West Stadium Course &
Nicklaus Tournament Course, La Quinta, California
$6,700,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Brandon Hagy got into the American Express field on Monday when Jon Rahm withdrew with a minor injury and made the most of his opportunity on opening day. He shot ten birdies for an 8-under 64 on the Nicklaus Tournament Course to take a one shot lead over Byeong Hun An.

“I felt like I saw the greens really well, and the last couple of days, I felt like I was putting really well,” said Hagy. “Once I started to read them well, I knew if I could just keep doing what I was doing, I’d have a good shot to do something.”

Hagy bogeyed the first hole but quickly made up for it with a first run of three birdies from the 3rd to 5th holes, then a second starting at 7th. He falterered and bogeyed the par-3 12th before making a third run between the 13th and 15th and closing with another birdie at 18.

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After turning pro in 2017, Hagy recorded his first top-10 finish at the RBC Canadian Open but an ongoing wrist injury made him miss the 2018 season. A back injury in 2019 meant he could only play in thirteen events and he made only eight cuts last year. Injury free and fully prepared, Hagy is ready to compete with the best.

“I’m happy with what I’ve been doing. I’m getting to a point now where I know exactly what I need to work on, and to just keep getting the reps.”

The Stadium Course was playing a stroke harder than the Nicklaus on opening day (71.05) and An, who lost six balls in a practice round there, made seven birdies and went bogey-free.

“I do that more often than you would think, to be honest, because I wasn’t focused that much because there is a lot of water on the Stadium Course, to be fair. There’s water on almost every hole,” he said. “I ran out of [golf balls], so I asked my buddy for golf balls. I had to borrow like two, three balls for the last three holes. It was my caddie’s fault. He only brought like five balls out there.”

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Brandon Hagy	-8	64
2	Byeong Hun An	-7	65
T3	Si Woo Kim	-6	66
T3	Martin Laird	-6	66
T3	Max Homa	-6	66
T6	Andrew Putnam	-5	67
T6	Ben Martin	-5	67
T6	Alex Noren	-5	67
T6	Doug Ghim	-5	67
T6	Maverick McNealy	-5	67
T6	Sam Ryder	-5	67
T6	Charl Schwartzel	-5	67
T6	Michael Thompson	-5	67
T6	Tyler Duncan	-5	67
T15	Jamie Lovemark	-4	68
T15	Adam Long	-4	68
T15	Josh Teater	-4	68
T15	Brian Harman	-4	68
T15	Aaron Baddeley	-4	68
T15	James Hahn	-4	68
T15	Kevin Streelman	-4	68
T15	Adam Schenk	-4	68
T15	Anirban Lahiri	-4	68
T15	Austin Cook	-4	68
T15	Patrick Reed	-4	68
T15	John Huh	-4	68
T15	Cameron Davis	-4	68
T15	Mark Hubbard	-4	68
T15	Kristoffer Ventura	-4	68
T15	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	-4	68
T15	Chris Kirk	-4	68
T15	Rory Sabbatini	-4	68
T15	David Hearn	-4	68
T15	Cameron Tringale	-4	68
T15	Nick Taylor	-4	68
T15	Brendan Steele	-4	68
T15	Sungjae Im	-4	68
T15	Tony Finau	-4	68
T39	Lanto Griffin	-3	69
T39	Russell Knox	-3	69
T39	Grayson Murray	-3	69
T39	Joel Dahmen	-3	69
T39	Vincent Whaley	-3	69
T39	Rob Oppenheim	-3	69
T39	Patrick Rodgers	-3	69
T39	Francesco Molinari	-3	69
T39	Patton Kizzire	-3	69
T39	Richy Werenski	-3	69
T39	Patrick Cantlay	-3	69
T39	Tyler McCumber	-3	69
T39	Abraham Ancer	-3	69
T39	Camilo Villegas	-3	69
T39	Emiliano Grillo	-3	69
T39	Luke List	-3	69
T39	Jimmy Walker	-3	69
T39	Troy Merritt	-3	69
T39	Satoshi Kodaira	-3	69
T39	Hank Lebioda	-3	69
T39	Roger Sloan	-3	69
T39	Joohyung Kim	-3	69
T61	Sebastian Cappelen	-2	70
T61	Harry Hall	-2	70
T61	Danny Lee	-2	70
T61	Cheng Tsung Pan	-2	70
T61	Kelly Kraft	-2	70
T61	Xinjun Zhang	-2	70
T61	Wyndham Clark	-2	70
T61	Scottie Scheffler	-2	70
T61	Ryan Moore	-2	70
T61	Doc Redman	-2	70
T61	Matt Jones	-2	70
T61	J.T. Poston	-2	70
T61	Brice Garnett	-2	70
T61	Martin Trainer	-2	70
T61	Pat Perez	-2	70
T61	Andrew Landry	-2	70
T61	Gary Woodland	-2	70
T61	Tim Wilkinson	-2	70
T61	Mark Anderson	-2	70
T61	Erik van Rooyen	-2	70
T61	Kramer Hickok	-2	70
T61	Rhein Gibson	-2	70
T61	Fabián Gómez	-2	70
T61	Charley Hoffman	-2	70
T61	Ryan Armour	-2	70
T61	J.J. Spaun	-2	70
T61	Nelson Ledesma	-2	70
T61	Kyle Stanley	-2	70
T61	Bill Haas	-2	70
T61	Scott Piercy	-2	70
T91	Hudson Swafford	-1	71
T91	Matthew Wolff	-1	71
T91	Ben Taylor	-1	71
T91	Michael Gligic	-1	71
T91	Tom Hoge	-1	71
T91	Bo Hoag	-1	71
T91	Lucas Glover	-1	71
T91	Bronson Burgoon	-1	71
T91	Henrik Norlander	-1	71
T91	Chez Reavie	-1	71
T91	Aaron Wise	-1	71
T91	Sean O’Hair	-1	71
T103	William Gordon	E	72
T103	Zach Johnson	E	72
T103	Kevin Stadler	E	72
T103	Kevin Tway	E	72
T103	Ted Potter, Jr.	E	72
T103	Brooks Koepka	E	72
T103	Paul Casey	E	72
T103	Adam Hadwin	E	72
T103	Scott Brown	E	72
T103	Russell Henley	E	72
T103	Chase Seiffert	E	72
T103	John Augenstein (a)	E	72
T103	Sepp Straka	E	72
T103	Luke Donald	E	72
T103	Charles Howell III	E	72
T103	Michael Gellerman	E	72
T103	Akshay Bhatia	E	72
T120	Vaughn Taylor	1	73
T120	Cameron Percy	1	73
T120	Peter Malnati	1	73
T120	Jim Herman	1	73
T120	Beau Hossler	1	73
T120	Denny McCarthy	1	73
T120	Rickie Fowler	1	73
T120	Scott Harrington	1	73
T120	Brandt Snedeker	1	73
T120	Steve Jones	1	73
T120	Nate Lashley	1	73
T120	Keegan Bradley	1	73
T132	Brian Gay	2	74
T132	Robby Shelton	2	74
T132	Phil Mickelson	2	74
T132	Brian Stuard	2	74
T132	Nick Watney	2	74
T132	Talor Gooch	2	74
T132	Scott Stallings	2	74
T132	Seung-Yul Noh	2	74
T132	Michael Block	2	74
T132	Jason Dufner	2	74
T132	Rafael Campos	2	74
T143	Steve Stricker	3	75
T143	Kevin Na	3	75
T143	Bo Van Pelt	3	75
146	Hunter Mahan	4	76
T147	Cameron Champ	5	77
T147	Chesson Hadley	5	77
T147	Sam Burns	5	77
T147	Sung Kang	5	77
T147	Chris Baker	5	77
T152	Matthew NeSmith	6	78
T152	Michael Kim	6	78
154	Joseph Bramlett	7	79
155	John Senden	9	81
156	Matt Every	12	84