Round 1

Boots & Jimmy took Round 1, 60-50, and the scoreline is really three holes. Team A won the opening par-5 5-2, the par-3 13th 4-0 and the par-4 12th 5-2 - nine points out of the ten-point margin from three holes - while the other fifteen were decided by a point or less, six of them going to JMo & Nick. The 13th did the most damage: at 173 yards and stroke index 16 it is the easiest hole on the card, and both JMo and Nick walked off it with double bogey or worse. Boots carried the round with 33 points on five birdies, and he did it without driving the ball well - 2 of 13 fairways - yet still hit 9 of 18 greens with the fastest ball speed in the field (161 mph average, 163 best). Jimmy added 27 on a round-high 11 pars and no birdies, then handed back two holes with zeros on 17 and 18. On the losing side Nick out-drove everyone (325.6 longest, 282.1 average) and saved it three times from sand but made one birdie and three doubles, while JMo made two birdies and played the round's only mulligan. The tell: Boots failed to score on one hole, the other three combined for eight.