by On a cold day (according to Arizona standards) and the brilliant day, Greg Chalmers recorded eight birdies, including four of the last six holes, to display a 7-mine of 64 at the La Paloma Country Club in Tucson. The left -handed Chalmers holds the head of the first round at the Classic of Cologuard 2025, the fourth event on the champions of the PGA Tour.
The 51 -year -old Australian plays in his 23rd champion. He was looking for his first victory on the circuit and the first since his only PGA Tour victory in the 2016 Barracuda championship.
Chalmers recorded four birdies on the front and went around in 32. After a pair of pars, he dropped the 12th by 3 but then the No. 13, 15, 17 and 18 to close.
The Australian compatriot Rod Pampling is part of three for second place at 5 sous, with Stephen Ames and Ernie Els. Jason Caron is one of the five golfers tied in fifth row at 4 sous, including Retiettes Goosen and Stewart Cink. To launch the national month of awareness of colorectal cancer in March, Cink plays this week for the long -standing senior writer from USA Today / Golfweek, Steve Dimglio, who was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2022 and died at the age of 63 on January 1.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Cologuard agreements on a professional initiative have golfers of the champions tour playing on behalf of patients with colon cancer, survivors or in memory of those who have been affected.
The reigning tournament champion Joe during is tied on the 22nd after a 70-mes of 70. The title champion of the Charles Schwab Cup, Steven Alker, is equally in 15th row after 2 under 69.
This is the second year that Co -Cocuard Classic was played with Paloma, a golf course that has gained notoriety to be one of the film’s locations for the film “Tin Cup”.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Greg Chalmers directs Colaguard Classic at Paloma in Tucson, Arizona
