WGC-Cadillac Championship 2015: Leaderboard Highlights, Reaction from Thursday

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Published: March 6, 2015

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For most of the world's best golfers, Doral provided a formidable foe in Thursday's first round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship. 

For J.B. Holmes, it was his own personal playground.   

Holmes carded a 10-under score of 62 on Thursday, putting him four strokes ahead of second-place Ryan Moore after a near-flawless round of golf. The 32-year-old, who has only gone so much as 10-under in one tournament so far this season, carded eight birdies and an eagle without a bogey in perhaps the best round of his career.



"It's a very difficult golf course. I played great today but it is a very difficult golf course, and today a lot of tees were up," Holmes said, per Steve DiMeglio of USA Today. "They could definitely put the tees back and make it play a lot harder, and it's already playing hard. The best players in the world are here, and the average is over par today…It's hard to back these days up. So I'll just try to go out there with no expectations tomorrow and play."



Most of the day Holmes was closely chased by Moore, who played through his first 12 holes at eight under before faltering down the stretch. Moore reeled off five consecutive pars on the back nine before closing his day with an ugly double bogey on No. 18 after hitting a shot into the water. Despite the disappointing ending, Moore closed his day two strokes free of the remainder of the field.

Take Moore and Holmes out of the equation, in fact, and one would surmise this was a difficult day at Doral. Only seven players so much as finished their days in the 60s, with a majority of the field struggling with the course's difficult par fours.

Alexander Levy, Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler lead the top of that pack at four under, each scattering their scorecards with pars and bogeys where Moore and Holmes were scoring birdie. Fowler was the most consistent of the bunch, ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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