Valspar Championship R1

Valspar Championship 2021 R1
April 29 – May 02
Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead), Palm Harbor, Florida
$6,900,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Keegan Bradley’s opening round in the Valspar Championship was as stress-free as it gets. His longest par putt of the day was barely over four feet, he made five birdies in his last seven holes, was bogey-free and closed with a 20-foot birdie for a 7-under 64 and a two-shot lead at Innisbrook.

Valspar Championship 2021 R1

“Today was just an all-around great day,” said Bradley. “Basically zero stress the whole day. I didn’t really come close to making a bogey, so that was a really fun day to be out there and playing well.”

“I know that I’m going to have some bogeys and some stress coming, but as for today, I played so good and it feels good to go around a course like this and shoot that score. This is a tough track, it demands a lot, ball striking-wise and I did that today.”

Valspar Championship 2021 R1

Behind him at 5-under is a group of five player including Ryan Moore who hasn’t won since 2016 and didn’t play for the last four months of 2020 due to a back injury.

“I couldn’t try and do too much,” said Moore, whose back has been tight in the past few days. “I couldn’t try and overwork shots and stuff like that. I just had to play it pretty neutral and just kind of hit more three-quarter shots all the way around, and that apparently worked. Maybe I should do that more often.”

Valspar Championship 2021 R1

Defending champion Paul Casey, attempting to become the fourth players in the last four decades to win the same even three consecutive times, opened with a 68 that comprised of four birdies and one bogey at the par-4 10th.

“A three-peat has been talked about a lot and will be talked about until I’m done here, and I just want to kind of hang around, which is what I did today,” said Casey. “I certainly can’t win it today, but I want to hang around.”

Valspar Championship 2021 R1

Valspar Championship 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Keegan Bradley	-7	64
T2	Emiliano Grillo	-5	66
T2	Max Homa	-5	66
T2	Patton Kizzire *	-5	66
T2	Hank Lebioda	-5	66
T2	Ryan Moore	-5	66
T7	Abraham Ancer	-4	67
T7	Scott Brown	-4	67
T7	Sam Burns *	-4	67
T7	Kramer Hickok	-4	67
T7	Jason Kokrak *	-4	67
T7	Ted Potter, Jr. *	-4	67
T7	Scott Stallings	-4	67
T14	Paul Casey *	-3	68
T14	Charley Hoffman	-3	68
T14	Beau Hossler *	-3	68
T14	Sungjae Im	-3	68
T14	Zach Johnson *	-3	68
T14	Kevin Kisner *	-3	68
T14	Chase Koepka	-3	68
T14	Troy Merritt *	-3	68
T14	Kevin Na *	-3	68
T14	Joaquin Niemann	-3	68
T14	Pat Perez	-3	68
T14	J.T. Poston	-3	68
T14	Doc Redman	-3	68
T14	Kyle Stanley *	-3	68
T28	Wesley Bryan	-2	69
T28	Wyndham Clark *	-2	69
T28	Luke Donald	-2	69
T28	Michael Gligic	-2	69
T28	Lucas Glover	-2	69
T28	Branden Grace	-2	69
T28	Viktor Hovland	-2	69
T28	Russell Knox	-2	69
T28	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	-2	69
T28	Henrik Norlander	-2	69
T28	Ian Poulter *	-2	69
T28	Brandt Snedeker	-2	69
T28	J.J. Spaun *	-2	69
T28	Nick Taylor	-2	69
T28	Justin Thomas	-2	69
T28	Cameron Tringale	-2	69
T28	Vincent Whaley *	-2	69
T45	Byeong Hun An	-1	70
T45	Kiradech Aphibarnrat *	-1	70
T45	Corey Conners *	-1	70
T45	Jason Dufner	-1	70
T45	Tyler Duncan *	-1	70
T45	David Hearn *	-1	70
T45	J.B. Holmes *	-1	70
T45	Charles Howell III	-1	70
T45	Chris Kirk	-1	70
T45	Danny Lee *	-1	70
T45	Tom Lewis	-1	70
T45	William McGirt	-1	70
T45	Keith Mitchell	-1	70
T45	Matthew NeSmith *	-1	70
T45	Ryan Palmer *	-1	70
T45	Patrick Reed *	-1	70
T45	Patrick Rodgers *	-1	70
T45	Charl Schwartzel *	-1	70
T45	Vaughn Taylor	-1	70
T45	Jhonattan Vegas *	-1	70
T45	Bubba Watson *	-1	70
Projected Cut: ( -1 )
T66	Joseph Bramlett *	E	71
T66	Bronson Burgoon	E	71
T66	K.J. Choi *	E	71
T66	Sam Horsfield *	E	71
T66	Dustin Johnson	E	71
T66	Sung Kang *	E	71
T66	Satoshi Kodaira *	E	71
T66	Kelly Kraft *	E	71
T66	Hunter Mahan *	E	71
T66	Peter Malnati	E	71
T66	Sean O’Hair	E	71
T66	D.A. Points *	E	71
T66	Andrew Putnam	E	71
T66	Rory Sabbatini *	E	71
T66	Adam Schenk *	E	71
T66	Henrik Stenson	E	71
T66	Brian Stuard *	E	71
T66	Hudson Swafford *	E	71
T66	Bo Van Pelt	E	71
T66	Camilo Villegas *	E	71
T66	Tim Wilkinson *	E	71
T66	Danny Willett *	E	71
T88	Brad Adamonis	1	72
T88	Aaron Baddeley *	1	72
T88	Jonas Blixt	1	72
T88	Ryan Brehm	1	72
T88	Austin Cook	1	72
T88	Doug Ghim	1	72
T88	Rhein Gibson *	1	72
T88	Bo Hoag	1	72
T88	Tom Hoge	1	72
T88	Andrew Landry *	1	72
T88	Luke List *	1	72
T88	Adam Long	1	72
T88	Jamie Lovemark	1	72
T88	Denny McCarthy *	1	72
T88	Rob Oppenheim *	1	72
T88	Sam Ryder	1	72
T88	Kevin Streelman	1	72
T88	D.J. Trahan	1	72
T88	Kris Ventura *	1	72
T88	Jimmy Walker *	1	72
T88	Nick Watney *	1	72
T88	Xinjun Zhang *	1	72
T110	Rafa Cabrera Bello *	2	73
T110	Rafael Campos	2	73
T110	Daniel Chopra	2	73
T110	Brian Gay *	2	73
T110	Talor Gooch *	2	73
T110	Lanto Griffin	2	73
T110	Chesson Hadley	2	73
T110	Adam Hadwin	2	73
T110	Rasmus Højgaard *	2	73
T110	Michael Kim *	2	73
T110	Martin Laird	2	73
T110	Phil Mickelson *	2	73
T110	Alex Noren *	2	73
T110	Louis Oosthuizen	2	73
T110	Scottie Scheffler	2	73
T110	Chase Seiffert *	2	73
T110	Roger Sloan *	2	73
T110	Martin Trainer	2	73
T110	Peter Uihlein	2	73
T129	John Augenstein *	3	74
T129	Sebastian Cappelen *	3	74
T129	Cameron Davis *	3	74
T129	Brandon Hagy *	3	74
T129	Russell Henley *	3	74
T129	Mark Hubbard	3	74
T129	Graeme McDowell	3	74
T129	Cameron Percy *	3	74
T129	Justin Rose *	3	74
T129	Robby Shelton	3	74
T129	Kevin Tway	3	74
T129	Michael Visacki	3	74
T129	Erik van Rooyen *	3	74
T142	James Hahn	4	75
T142	Scott Harrington *	4	75
T142	Mackenzie Hughes	4	75
T142	Grayson Murray *	4	75
T142	Chez Reavie *	4	75
T142	Kevin Stadler *	4	75
T148	Ryan Armour	5	76
T148	Scott Piercy *	5	76
T150	John Huh	6	77
T150	Nelson Ledesma *	6	77
T150	Rod Perry *	6	77
T150	Richy Werenski	6	77
T150	Gary Woodland *	6	77
155	Jordan Hahn	7	78
156	Jim Herman	8	79
* Player started on the back nine