The CJ Cup @ Summit R1

CJ Cup 2021 R1
October 14-17
The Summit Club, Las Vegas, Nevada
$9,750,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Robert Streb made his best tournament start and his lowest score on the PGA Tour, shooting an 11-under 61 on Thursday at the CJ Cup @ Summit in Las Vegas.

CJ Cup 2021 R1

“I’ve never had a start like that, so it was kind of fun. Slowed down a little I guess in the middle, but it was a really, really good round.

“I think if you can get off to a hot start, the first several holes are pretty gettable. You’ve got a few tougher tee balls and stuff there on the back nine and some longer holes, so yeah, it always helps to get off to a hot start, too.”

CJ Cup 2021 R1

He is followed by four fellow Americans, a Spaniard and a Norwegian. Keith Mitchell played a bogey-free 62, Harry Higgs a 64 for third place and Hudson Swafford took a share of fourth place with a 65 alongside Sergio Garcia and a bogey-free Viktor Hovland.

“If you hit the fairways, you have good chances. It’s that simple,” said Mitchell, “because if you miss the fairways, the desert is a big penalty. It just depends on luck after that. So if you can hit it in the fairways and then keep having really good speed on my putts, then I feel like we’ll have a chance because there’s enough birdie opportunities that if you do that, you can take advantage of them, but if you get out of posi tion out here, it can bite you ”

CJ Cup 2021 R1

Scores stayed low with an average score of 68.95, the lowest this year, and only nine players going over par in a field of 78.

There was plenty of difficulty to be found for those who failed to stay on the fairway however with Rory McIlroy (68, ) Justin Thomas (69) , Dustin Johnson (74) and Justin Rose (75) finding trouble in the desert.

“It was really good apart from one bad swing. I missed a 3-wood on 17 right, messed around in the rough a little bit over there and ended up making a 7. It was sort of — JT did a similar thing on 9, Jason did a similar thing on 12. It’s one of those courses where if you just keep it in play, it’s obviously very scorable, but you hit a couple just offline and you get a bad break or a little unlucky, you can make a big number and I did that on 17, but the other 17 holes were good.”

CJ Cup 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Robert Streb	-11	61
2	Keith Mitchell	-10	62
3	Harry Higgs	-8	64
T4	Hudson Swafford	-7	65
T4	Sergio Garcia	-7	65
T4	Viktor Hovland	-7	65
T7	Aaron Wise	-6	66
T7	Jhonattan Vegas	-6	66
T7	Cameron Smith	-6	66
T7	Hideki Matsuyama	-6	66
T7	Scottie Scheffler	-6	66
T7	Ian Poulter	-6	66
T7	Rickie Fowler	-6	66
T7	Jordan Spieth	-6	66
T15	Max Homa	-5	67
T15	K.H. Lee	-5	67
T15	Collin Morikawa	-5	67
T15	Brian Harman	-5	67
T15	Joaquin Niemann	-5	67
T15	Erik van Rooyen	-5	67
T15	Sam Burns	-5	67
T15	Tyrrell Hatton	-5	67
T15	Brooks Koepka	-5	67
T15	Talor Gooch	-5	67
T15	Harold Varner III	-5	67
T26	Chris Kirk	-4	68
T26	Joohyung Kim	-4	68
T26	Paul Casey	-4	68
T26	Adam Scott	-4	68
T26	Tony Finau	-4	68
T26	Sungjae Im	-4	68
T26	Rory McIlroy	-4	68
T26	Tommy Fleetwood	-4	68
T26	Seonghyeon Kim	-4	68
T26	Cam Davis	-4	68
T26	Gary Woodland	-4	68
T26	Kevin Na	-4	68
T26	Russell Henley	-4	68
T39	Maverick McNealy	-3	69
T39	Minkyu Kim	-3	69
T39	Stewart Cink	-3	69
T39	Webb Simpson	-3	69
T39	Sebastián Muñoz	-3	69
T39	Justin Thomas	-3	69
T39	Lucas Glover	-3	69
T39	Xander Schauffele	-3	69
T39	Rasmus Hojgaard	-3	69
T39	Jaekyeong Lee	-3	69
T49	Marc Leishman	-2	70
T49	Abraham Ancer	-2	70
T49	Keegan Bradley	-2	70
T49	Byeong Hun An	-2	70
T49	Kevin Kisner	-2	70
T49	Matt Jones	-2	70
T49	Louis Oosthuizen	-2	70
T56	Mackenzie Hughes	-1	71
T56	Carlos Ortiz	-1	71
T56	Sung Kang	-1	71
T56	Cameron Tringale	-1	71
T56	Tom Hoge	-1	71
T56	Sanghun Shin	-1	71
T56	Patton Kizzire	-1	71
T56	Patrick Reed	-1	71
T56	Si Woo Kim	-1	71
T65	Alex Noren	E	72
T65	Charl Schwartzel	E	72
T65	Emiliano Grillo	E	72
T65	Charley Hoffman	E	72
T65	Branden Grace	E	72
T70	Harris English	+1	73
T70	Shane Lowry	+1	73
T70	Jason Day	+1	73
T73	Yoseop Seo	+2	74
T73	Hanbyeol Kim	+2	74
T73	Dustin Johnson	+2	74
T76	Kevin Streelman	+3	75
T76	Justin Rose	+3	75
78	Jason Kokrak	+5	77