Streelman, Bjorn seize World Cup lead
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American Kevin Streelman bogeyed two of his last three holes to fall back into a share of a one-stroke lead with Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn after the first round of the US$8 million World Cup of Golf yesterday, as the headline acts toiled.
Streelman, a late choice to represent the defending champion United States team, had torn up Royal Melbourne’s back nine with five birdies in six holes but dropped shots on the tricky 16th and 18th to card a 66 and join Bjorn on 5-under.
The pair finished a stroke ahead of Welshman Stuart Manley, South Korea’s KJ Choi and Martin Laird of Scotland.
“I was very pleased with that start,” the 35-year-old Streelman told reporters after upstaging world No. 7 compatriot Matt Kuchar (71), who won the last World Cup for the US with Gary Woodland in 2011 when it was purely a team event.
“It’s just an incredible golf course, I love it ... I just had a lot of fun there to be honest.”
The tournament’s format has been changed from being solely a team event to primarily an individual one with a team component. Sixty players are competing for individual honors while 26 two-player teams are competing for the team prize.
Having given themselves every chance of winning the individual trophy, Streelman and European Tour journeyman Bjorn also put their nations in the box seat for team honors.
Streelman and Kuchar’s combined score of 5-under left the US level with Denmark’s Bjorn and Thorbjorn Olesen (71), three strokes ahead of Portugal’s Jose-Filipa Lima (71) and Ricardo Santos (69).
Australia’s Adam Scott, who won the Australian PGA and the Australian Masters, had a quintuple-bogey 9 on the 12th hole and shot 75 as only 12 players in the no-cut field broke par.
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