LIV Golf’s second season kicked off at El Camaleon, a course designed by LIV CEO Greg Norman; it is LIV’s first foray into Mexico and their first time staging a match on a course that has hosted PGA Tour occasions

Englishman Paul Casey is in a tie for the lead after a six-under first spherical of 65 in LIV Golf’s opening match of their second season

Jason Kokrak and Englishman Paul Casey are tied for the first-round lead at LIV Golf Mayakoba after taking pictures rounds of six-under-par 65 on Friday in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

The match kicked off LIV Golf’s second season, and at El Camaleon, a course designed by LIV CEO Greg Norman. It’s LIV’s first foray into Mexico and its first time staging a match on a course that has hosted PGA Tour occasions.

Kokrak and Casey maintain a two-shot lead over Peter Uihlein, Talor Gooch and Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz, who all shot four-under 67s.

Kokrak and Casey shot their 65s in very other ways. Kokrak had six birdies, together with a chip-in, and stayed bogey-free.

“With my sort of sport, I do not at all times get the possibility to have a bogey-free spherical,” Kokrak stated. Gooch was the one different participant to go bogey-free on Friday.

Casey, in the meantime, began his spherical with a birdie on the par-four sixth and was 5 underneath earlier than taking a double bogey on the par-four second gap. He bounced again by ending his spherical with three consecutive birdies at holes three to 5.

Dustin Johnson, final season’s particular person champion and the captain of the defending crew champions, 4Aces, is tied for sixth at three underneath, together with Charles Howell III, England’s Ian Poulter, Australia’s Marc Leishman and South Africa’s Branden Grace in spite of everything shot opening 68s.

LIV’s highest-ranked participant, world No 5 Cameron Smith of Australia, is alone in eleventh at two underneath after a first-round 69.

Casey and Howell helped Crushers take the crew lead at 10 underneath by means of one spherical. India’s Anirban Lahiri contributed a one-under 70.

The highest three scores for every four-man crew rely in direction of every crew’s rating for every spherical. Crushers captain Bryson DeChambeau was the odd man out for his crew after opening with a one-over 72 that included a double bogey-bogey-bogey stretch.

Crushers at the moment have a three-shot lead over Johnson’s 4Aces and Brooks Koepka’s Smash, every positioned at seven underneath.

4Aces bought contributions from Johnson, Uihlein and Pat Perez (even-par 71), and Smash featured Kokrak, Koepka (even) and Matthew Wolff (one-under).