Round 1 Highlights 2026 Joburg Open

Judging these mud balls No preferred lies in the rough. So you never quite know what's going to happen Go on in you go in you go Are you kidding me goalkeeper? You are kidding me Earth is at least it's unbelievable The bottom line is wally. There is no way to predict really where the mud ball is there. But I mean look at this The first thing you see is full commitment He's taking it on possibly just got it moving a little left to right more than he'd wanted but Got the camber and at this point you he wouldn't bet against it. Oh Don't you hate those mud balls? Lost your shots all the time. They're just awful What a beautiful golf shot Man, he his short game Is to die for he's actually upset. He didn't hold it. It was dead on line beautifully done Schaefer next to play at four I think he likes it On it up and down Excellent sullivan's was Very good. That is just brilliant He's going to be the first to three wins on the dp world tour this season We've got now got three players who've won twice already. We're only 12 tournaments in Oh, yes. Oh, yes, please. What a great putt. Well, that'll ease the frustration He was irritated on the t irritated the second shot all forgotten now beautiful putt Julian guerrilla I'll tell you what that is beautifully played And as expected ninaba high five iron off the tee Unable to get it home easily with another iron I wonder what it feels like hazy just to hit hit the ball that hard just once in a lifetime with a driver would be nice Jacob scoff ollison In different week for him last week in amongst some really good play Over the last few weeks A chance for him to move alongside ninaba with him one of the top And he's a crafty player. He can pitch the ball well, which I think is going to be required on these soaking greens this week and There you see 65 shots a great start goodness me There we go straightforward eagle And with that jayden schaefer tithes david rivetto for the lead here at the joeberg open Hello And then he won better than patrick reid earlier It sounded like he was worried about it possibly jumping wasn't it? Sort of be surprised in these wet conditions. That's a golf shot and a half brilliant from reid an awkward distance of a wet fairway for iora and managed to just catch the the backstop And stun it nicely Well, he's picking up where he left off last week. That is an opening birdie for casey jarvis So he strikes straight away and look at that Clear your head slightly i'm going to be in austria later this season and kitzbühel for the austrian open and this is Maximilian steinlechner who played rather nicely in his national open championship last year and that will do nicely as well Second shot of andrew up the hill at the last It's beautifully judged Taking on that penalty error that runs all the way down from the second shot beautiful shot That's one of the best we've seen on the night face wide open Very birdie on eagle half five. That is a spot on fantastic golf shot, isn't it? Aiming well left just trying to hold the face trying to get the distance the judgment And there you go as john morgan said it's about trying to control the spin and there's only one way to do that Hit the ball softer, which is exactly what casey jarvis has done. He's taken an extra club and just smoothed it in there Beautifully done. Oh, there you go. The fancy the dp world tour Now nathan kimsey at the ninth of that beautiful tee shot this for a 64 Am I right has he played is that his mind? Absolutely. You're spot on home in 31 64 My ball steve Oh, that's hard It's just three he's just got to he's just got to try and play as normal a shot as he can and just hope for the best and then with mud The it'll always go off in the opposite direction To the side that the mud is on your ball, but this is all over the place This is just spread all over the ball. There's just no guessing If the mud is on top, then it'll go underground with it. Absolutely like a worm And pop out next to the hole helps when you're only hitting nine iron on a power five though I mean that is that is fantastic. It's almost illegal That is fantastic Because he's standing over there wondering what the heck is this gonna do? Yeah, you see the lie of the mud on top All out flush can't see the flag Slam dunks it to 10 feet. What's your problem? What a golf shot? Jarvis for his birdie putt coming up the hill Back to two on the power Laporta Oh, if that's the right distance, it's a beautiful shot stunner That's one of the best we've seen Look a good swing. He thinks it's come out hot out the grass Wow Might have felt like it came out It's come out perfectly Now here's a man who won here on his third start on the dp world tour three years ago. Dan bradbury Fantastic shot That is borderline incredible Oh From the stubbly cuckoo And he's played it like a bunker shot out the mud Laporta sweet drive on eight Last week's performance, I would say inside 10 feet should we say inside five feet beautifully done And he's got it. You were right john. It is another birdie for casey jarvis two in the last three holes So he moves to three under and is now within three of the lead That was a really clever shot. He smoothed it. So It negates the flyer it takes the spin off so you're not gonna suck it back Down the green cleverly done and well executed Chance to get to six under Chance to get to six under for steinleff. No beautifully done Nice clean card iora at the 11th after a beautiful drive Oh, that's a terrific second shot as well And that's one of the few holes that was left over from the old course that used to be the 17th hole on the old course Got a funny feeling about this one Gonna get the lottery numbers tonight after i'm holly up Jaden bogey 364 in these conditions. How good was that? Um, yeah, I mean on this golf course, it's it's always nice to go bogey free Um, especially for the first day and get off to a good start Um, but yeah, I mean it's it's pretty wet out there It's hard to judge what the greens are going to do with how they hit your approach shots How they're going to spin how they're going to react And then also on the greens that was quite difficult. There's a lot of really slow patches out there. So yeah Mentally, what did you guys do in order to not let that be too much of a factor out there this morning? Um, I mean, we just played the same game that we've been playing so it's just more of the same stuff And it's pretty much as you see it. You can kind of see it So so accurate or I mean you can see if there's a wet patch or you can kind of react to what the ball's going Off of the fairways and that's um, but I think from from tea green I was pretty good kind of gave myself a lot of chances didn't really hit myself out of position too many times And yeah, I mean, it's obviously a big bonus to be playing from the fairways Obviously a scorecard length placing helps out there when the conditions are so wet You made an eagle at the path five fifth. Can you just talk us through that? Um, yeah, I mean, obviously I think i've think the past few years i've had a pretty pretty good time on that hole um, but yeah, I mean it's just kind of just just knuckled a driver down that made sure keeping it short of that bunker because I mean from anywhere anywhere short of the bunker around the bunker You got a shot into the green So just kind of like a little fairway finder down there had a pretty pretty perfect yardage for a rescue up there Hit it up to about 15 feet and yeah, just rolled it in. So it's just a just a nicely planned hole Having started so well, how much are you looking forward to the rest of the tournament? Uh, yeah, I mean just I always look forward to to the second day and the rest of the week after a start like that But I guess you have to see what the weather has planned for us. I know It looks like it's gonna be a wet one after the rest of the day A few thunderstorms hanging around and I think tomorrow is going to be even worse. So Um, yeah, I mean you can't really control that. So we'll just see what happens. But yeah, it's gonna be a good week Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks