{"id":1242403,"date":"2023-03-09T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1242403"},"modified":"2023-03-10T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:54:15","slug":"magical-kenya-open-2023-r1-catlin-mostert-tied-for-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/magical-kenya-open-2023-r1-catlin-mostert-tied-for-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Catlin &#038; Mostert tied for the lead in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Catlin of the United States carded a bogey-free 7-under 64 featuring an eagle at the par-5 18th to take a share of the lead in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1633770602820517889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1633770602820517889%7Ctwgr%5Ef6c2218df663c966f569b04e76497c6e0f11b8a7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FDPWorldTour2Fstatus2F1633770602820517889widget%3DTweet<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I left some out there on my back nine. I got off to a really hot start and just made some bad swings, I didn\u2019t take advantage of the par fives and hit a really bad lay-up on the seventh. It was a good round of golf, I left a few out there for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A nice way to build some momentum. I feel like I\u2019ve been close, just a poor swing here, misjudgement here, that\u2019s all it takes out here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s very fine margins. I was able to take two weeks off, put some work in on my game and it feels like it\u2019s starting to pay off, so I\u2019m really excited about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Catlin and Dylan Mostert posted opening rounds of 64 to share the lead on day one. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MagicalKenyaOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MagicalKenyaOpen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1633879067026915343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Dylan Mostert, who won his maiden European Challenge Tour title at the Nelson Mandela Bay Championship two weeks ago, also started on the back nine and produced eight birdies before suffering a single bogey at the par-4 9th for his share of the lead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased. I played very solid today, kept the momentum going throughout the round,&#8221; said Mostert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Made some good putts, hit a lot of greens. The greens are small, so if you\u2019re hitting greens you\u2019re going to have a lot of chances. I managed to make a few putts, I\u2019ll just keep doing the same thing. I\u2019m excited for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greens are quite soft in the morning, they definitely firm up throughout the day. As soon as the wind picks up and the heat gets up they firm up and get faster, much tougher. It\u2019s definitely an advantage to play early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m just grateful to be here, I got an invite. It fits nicely in my schedule and I\u2019ll have three DP World Tour events in a row now, going to South Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Pierre Pineau remained bogey-free while the Netherlands&#8217; Wil Besseling carded eight birdies and a double bogey at the par-4 15th for a share of third place one shot behind.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Tom Murray, South Africa&#8217;s Casey Jarvis, Germany&#8217;s Nick Bachem, Spain&#8217;s Borja Virto and Malaysia<a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/scottie-scheffler-enjoying-world-number-one-scrap-with-jon-rahm-and-rory-mcilroy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;<\/a>s Gavin Green lie one shot further behind in fifth place<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1633762158969233414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1633762158969233414%7Ctwgr%5Ef628232520e44a76bc79b19ed644d69aec8a78b6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FDPWorldTour2Fstatus2F1633762158969233414widget%3DTweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magical Kenya Open R1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1242405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[98,972,88,1693,2906,2827,7224,2828,89,90,91,92,94],"class_list":["post-1242403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dp-world-tour","category-the_tours","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-dylan-mostert","tag-golf-news","tag-john-catlin","tag-kenya","tag-magical-kenya-open","tag-muthaiga-gc","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-results","tag-scores","tag-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenya Open 2023 R1 - Golf Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Magical Kenya Open 2023 R1 - Catlin and Mostert tied for the lead at 7-under in Kenya ahead of crowded leaderboard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/magical-kenya-open-2023-r1-catlin-mostert-tied-for-the-lead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catlin &amp; 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