RBC Canadian Open started with 4 leaders

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Archived the first round of play on the course of the Oakdale Golf & Country Club in Toronto, Canada, theater of the RBC Canadian Open, one of the most traditional tournaments on the PGA Tour, so much so that it is the third oldest tournament still today on the calendar, behind only the US Open and Open Championship.

RBC Canadian Open, results

After the first 18 holes, four players share the lead: they are the landlord Corey Conners, absolutely one of the most eagerly awaited men, the Englishman Aaron Rai and the two Americans Justin Lower and Chesson Hadley.

For all of them the score reads -5, although the ways to get there have been very different. If Conners had a very solid day, filing 18 holes with 5 birdies and no bogey, Rai's road was much more tortuous: a total of nine birdies served him to remedy the tremendous sequence between hole 3 and hole 5, where he ran into a bogey and a double bogey.

The eagle at the 18 for Lower was exceptional, a hole where Hadley had to give up a shot. The chasing group is very large: the players with a score of -4 are in fact nine, among which the names of Matt Fitzpatrick, S.H. Kim and Mark Hubbard.

Slightly muted start for the big favorite and reigning double champion Rory McIlroy, who had to settle for a round in -1 which takes him to 37th place. Toronto is a city in extreme southeastern Canada, the capital of the province of Ontario and the most populous center of Canada with its 2 794 356 inhabitants (6 202 225 in the metropolitan area..

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