{"id":1254324,"date":"2024-10-24T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1254324"},"modified":"2024-10-24T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:39:06","slug":"zozo-championship-2024-r1-taylor-moore-leading-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/zozo-championship-2024-r1-taylor-moore-leading-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Moore leading in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Moore opened with a 7-under 63 featuring an eagle at the par-5 18th and a single bogey to take a one-shot lead at the Zozo Championship in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d say just very solid [round] overall. Did a pretty good job hitting fairways and greens for the most part. Couple chip-ins as well, which always helps. Yeah, overall, very solid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American tied his career-best 18-hole score on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PGA Tour<\/a> first recorded in round 4 of the 2023 Wyndham Championship.\u00a0 A 63 also marks his career-low opening-round score and matches the tournament first-round score (Hiroshi Iwata\/2021). He leads the field in Strokes Gained: Around The Green (2.979).<\/p>\n<p>More holds the first-round lead\/co-lead for the third time on Tour and the second this season (2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic\/T4, 2024 Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open\/T2).<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Highlights | Round 1 | ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP | 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmHNx6jdd3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Americans Max Greyserman and Erica Cole are part of a three-way tie for second place at 6-under alongide Colombian Nico Echavarria.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Collin Morikawa (T35) opened with 1-under 69 as he seeks to become the first player to\u00a0 successfully defend his title at the Zozo Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just kind of went through a little lull, missed a couple numbers, started missing some fairways,&#8221; said the American. &#8220;Out here if you miss the fairways, it just plays a little bit tougher and you just can&#8217;t get close to the pins. Didn&#8217;t really make any putts, so didn&#8217;t really save my round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it was nice to just kind of have a clean back nine and finish in the red, still be in it. This is a tough golf course and I know I can still make a lot of birdies, just got to be patient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The championship is co-sanctioned with the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO) with a total of 14 JGTO members in the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p>Nos. 1-50 in the FedExCup standings through the <a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/fedex-cup-standings-35-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tour Championship<\/strong><\/a> are locked in their positions, while Nos. 51 and beyond carry their FedExCup points into the Fall. Nos. 51-60 through the FedExCup Fall will qualify for two Signature Events in 2025: AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, The Genesis Invitational. No players moved into Nos. 51-60 this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 125 will be exempt into all Full-Field events and The Players next season and Nos. 126-150 will earn full Korn Ferry Tour status and conditional status on Tour next season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_link_1254312\" class=\"ct-div-block content-link_wrap\"><a class=\"ct-link content-link_image-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/players-with-momentum-whos-hot-leading-into-the-world-wide-technology-championship\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playa_Dorada_6th-smaller-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-link_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playa_Dorada_6th-smaller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playa_Dorada_6th-smaller-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"ct-div-block content-link_content\"><a class=\"ct-link\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/players-with-momentum-whos-hot-leading-into-the-world-wide-technology-championship\/\"><h5 class=\"ct-headline content-link_title\"><strong>Related:<\/strong> Players with momentum: Who&#8217;s hot leading into the World Wide Technology Championship<\/h5><\/a><div class=\"ct-text-block content-link_text\">Five of the very best young talents in the world of golf have a great chance to lift the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>For the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> in the golfing world, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/x.com\/GolfTodayUK&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718123050082000&amp;usg=AOvVaw21kBF4AVkP1f9mDUOnAp4_\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zozo Championship R1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1245749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":58,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[1820,84,9477,1822],"class_list":["post-1254324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pga","category-the_tours","tag-accordia-golf-narashino-country-club","tag-pga-tour","tag-taylor-moore","tag-zozo-championship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zozo Championship R1 - Golf Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Taylor Moore takes opening lead by one shot at the Zozo Championship in Japan. 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