An early morning wakeup call Thursday for fans at The Players to follow the world's top three ranked players -- Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
For three players who have played ping-pong with the No. 1 world ranking since last March, little of the magnificence of them producing a combined 13 PGA Tour wins in 13 months and six career major championships was on display.
It’s not like good scores, especially from half the field with morning tee times, weren’t being posted. First-round leader Chad Ramey, who has a world ranking of No. 225, shot 64, one shot off the course record. Taylor Pendrith, ranked No. 114 and still searching for his first Tour win, fired a 67. No household name got more sideways in the opening round than McIlroy. His feast-or-famine reputation at The Players — four top-8 finishes and five missed cuts among 12 appearances — immediately flared up in a bad way.
You sort of knew the potential for a horribly bad day, where McIlroy hit only six of 14 fairways, went 0-for-3 on sand saves and needed 31 putts, was coming when he three-putted for par at the easiest hole, the par-five 16th. “The three-putt on 16 was probably the one that sort of stopped any momentum,” McIlroy said. “I hit a really good shot out of the pine straw there and didn't capitalize on that, and making bogey on 1 and bogey on 3 sort of was tough to get it back from there.”The expletive that Rahm uttered after his sixth birdie putt from inside 15 feet failed to drop on the final hole was somewhat understandable.
By the time Thursday’s suspended round finished, eight of the top 11 players on the leaderboard had world rankings of 50 or higher, including five who were making their debut at The Players.
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