Highlights | Round 1 | Rocket Classic | 2025

Perfect tee shots, and both players missed the green. Ooh, look at this, though. Look at this one. How about it? Quickly up ahead, and then we'll leave from behind the green here. Flag out, Swanee. Oh, and walks in. How about it? Bringing this in a little bit lower. It's not turning over, but on a good line. Really good result. It's from 119 yards from Keegan. Also keeping it right of the hole location, but not by much. Ooh, how about those two shots right there? Pretty tasty. That's what we're expecting, and it looks like it's going to continue. Oh, Keegan Bradley, birdie, birdie, start. Carl Villeps at the 5th, 5'16". And Alex, I mean, these young kids, they come out right away. Oh, Villeps. Whoa. They expect to win right now, and Carl's already got a victory. The second for Morikawa, off and running at 17. Oh, Michael. Look at this. It's gorgeous. Oh. Ding. And Colin can see it from there because that greenside bunker on the left blocks it out a little bit. Okay, Ricky in more familiar territory. That just looked like a super nice pass. Oh, baby. And Willese had a bunch of circles on his scorecard today. They can actually control this right-hand drove. Oh, yeah. Perfect. Zach Johnson birdied five of his opening nine holes today. This would be stealing one at the 10. Oh, why not? Just go ahead and rattle another one in there. Andrew Putnam at the 5th. Really nice upper body rotation right there. Over to 5, just an 8-footer for Andrew Putnam. He doesn't miss many of those. One of the elite ball strikers in the game. Here's Bannon at 13. Good peel back off the slope. Here she comes. Makeable. Makeable. Down she goes. Michael Thorby-Orenson at 11. Working on a beautiful high draw. This is looking really good. And he's going to use the slope. Look at that shot. Great work from Thorby-Orenson and a couple of top 10s. This one may have a little zip on it from Minwoo Lee at 8. Oh, get in. Oh, it had his attention. I don't think he's playing a whole lot of break with this putt, Swanee. Oh, it started to wiggle back, and it went right to the bottom. The man knew what he was doing. Had some kind of career, and he's having, obviously, a really good day, something he's very capable of doing. Chris Ventura having a great day. His tee shot at 15. How about that? To get to 8 under and a one-shot bat. A player who has really found his spot in this big stage. How about Griffin? He draws it from the fairway. Why not? I mean, what else is new? What can't this guy do? And brilliantly executed. They're going in from just about anywhere. Beautiful bunker shot from Gary Whitley to get the right smile there. At the par 5, Steven Yeager. Been a tough outing. Double bogey on the second hole after an errant tee shot, but hello. Oh, crowd loves it. Second shot from Ryan Gerard on the 15th. Just trickled over the back of the green there. Ryan Gerard. Needs to stack a couple up, and he's tossed one in there close here. Matsuyama in business at the 5th. Which is what this ball is doing. If it's enough, could be very good. Beautiful. Hey, look at that shot. The 24-year-old played his college golf at Pepperdine. Second for Albert Potgieter, 17. Talk about a strong player. They can push it through the air pretty quickly. I don't know what he had into the par 5, but that looked like a midiron to me. Role models that you would want to copy on and off the golf course. As we watch Potgieter. Makes the turn in 7 under 29. And he'd keep it going at the 1st. Just hammered it down there. Just had a little flick into the screen. Making it look easy today. It's a kick in range. This is Tristan Lawrence, 2nd at 13th. Played well at Marion. Slightly different feel here this week. I think less stress than Marion. You can be attacking the holes just like that. Wonderful shot from the South African, a chance. The rookie, Gordon Sargent, at 1 under par. It's going to come nicely down that bank. What a shot there. One of men's individual titles, a freshman at Vanderbilt. The shorter hitters, they get a lot of wedges in their hands. Might not be able to go for some of these par fives, but if you're a short hitter, you're a good wedge player, as we see right there. And Kevin Kisner sets himself up for another birdie. Lucas Glover has done it. Matt Kuchar has done it. And I'm with you. It's cool when it happens. Oh! Great line. He's done exactly that. Oh, perfect. Eagle 2 for Hideki. Players at different stages of their seasons and their careers. This is Brett White, who qualified to play here. Oh, look at that little hop towards the flag. And it is going to be a birdie when that goes in to get to 3 under par. Let's go to the 17th. And Kevin Roy. Good try there. Nicely done. And that gets Kevin Roy into a tie for the lead. That's a wedge from 144 on the way. Flag that's perched back there, and that's a really nice effort. So he'll have that to get to 10 under. Yes. 10 under par, leading the way at the Rocket Classic. That's certainly the case, Tom. Kevin Roy, can he respond to the other side of the course on the 18th? Now one back of Potgater. Another great shot. He has played beautifully today. Caps it off. That's a round of 62. Breaks the previous record of 63 by 1. Ties his low round on the PGA Tour. Come on, Wynn. Trying to get it to move a little left. That's solid. Potgater. Oh, he thought he made it. Gave it the early walk, too. Has to settle for a share of the course record with Kevin Roy. 10 under 62. Here's Mark Hubbard on the tee at 15. Right in there. You can see how soft the golf course is. A little bit of rain. Ben Coles with his tee shot. Players going flag hunting here with these soft greens. There's another example. Not far away from an ace there. It's going to be a tap-in birdie. Yeah, I mean, so much was up for grabs. We got lucky with the weather, the rain that came just the last couple of days. We knew it was like a green light for everybody in the field. Course record 63 at the start of the day. Matched by Min Wu, but chances of getting two to break it. Thanks for watching the PGA Tour on YouTube. For more videos, click here. To subscribe, click here.