After an enthralling opening day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the first round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
67– The low round of the day, shot by3players (Matthew Baldwin, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Romain Wattel)
0– Frenchman Wattel was blemish-free in his opening5under par round
32– The low9of the day set on the back by Cabrera-Bello
4– Shots2014European Ryder Cup Captain Paul McGinley was under par
2– Shots under par that4of the2012Medinah heroes were on Thursday (Luke Donald, Peter Hanson, Martin Kaymer, Rory McIlroy)
3– Inches short Paul Casey was from a hole in1on the15th- it would have been the10th ace in the tournament’s history and Casey’s2nd (his other came in 2011 at the12th)
85– Cumulative shots under par Kaymer is now in25rounds at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship after his first round70
21– Of those have been rounds under par
5– Birdies all day at the par4 9th, ranking the hardest hole on Thursday at an average of4.44
54– Approximate percentage of the field to birdie the par5 18th in the first round (68 players), ranking the easiest hole at an average of4.51
8– Nationalities in the top ten following the first round including2South Africans (George Coetzee, Dawie van der Walt) and2Scotsmen (Craig Lee, Marc Warren)
391– Birdies on day one
0– Eagles during the opening day’s play; there were only5in total last year
1 –Falcon – the famous clubhouse which towers over the closing holes of each9
51– Players under par today
15– The amount of shots between first and last place
