WWT Championship Round 1: Chris Kirk fires bogey-free 63 to lead by one at El Cardonal
FedExCup Fall No. 110 hits every fairway; Dunlap and Blair sit one back on 64. Purse $6 million.
Kirk’s 63 on the Tiger Woods design
Chris Kirk led the World Wide Technology Championship after round one on Thursday, 5 November, at El Cardonal at Diamante (par 72, 7,452 yards). Associated Press copy on PGA Tour and ESPN says he hit every fairway, missed one green, and shot a bogey-free 9-under 63. Nick Dunlap and Zac Blair opened 64. Five players sat T4 at 65: Matthieu Pavon, Harry Hall, Taylor Montgomery, Kensei Hirata and Ben James.
The purse is $6 million. Kirk is about 110th in FedExCup Fall with three events left to finish inside the top 100 and keep a full 2027 PGA Tour card. More than half of the 120-man field broke 70.
Round 2 is not the desk
Friday’s second round was in progress at the time of this desk. Live widgets that move Kirk or Ben James during R2 are not treated as a finished 36-hole board. This story publishes the completed Thursday round only.
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