A closer look at the prototype driver Bryson DeChambeau is using for the World Long Drive Championship

Tiger Woods has a great chance to join Sam Snead with a record-tying 82nd PGA TOUR win this weekend at the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP thanks to a stellar 6-under 64 that sent him to a share of the lead after the opening round at Accordia Golf Narshino Country Club. Here’s a quick look at some of the important numbers to come out of the 43-year-old’s first round of the 2019-20 season: Related: Leaderboard | Tiger co-leads at delayed ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP | Tiger rebounds from slow start • This was Woods’ 57th round of 64 or better (most of any player on TOUR since stats were officially taken in 1983). Phil Mickelson is next with 55. Jim Furyk and Kenny Perry are next with 47. • His 6-under 64 is his lowest round to open a season in his career. • Nine birdies is his most in a round since the first round of the 2013-WGC Mexico Championship. (His best through two rounds is 17 at the same event). • Carded three more birdies in the first round than any other player in the field. • Was his lowest round on TOUR since a first-round 62 at the 2018 BMW Championship • Tied for first in the field in greens in regulation with 15 of 18, including 14 in a row. • Hit just six of 13 fairways (46.2%). • Played the par-3s in 4 under, the best in the field. • It is his best round on TOUR that opened 3-over through the first three holes (in the ShotLink era since 2003). On previous occasions with such a start, he failed to break par, with his best being an even-par round at the 2013 Memorial Tournament Presented by Nationwide. • Was his third time opening with bogey-or-worse on each of the first three holes (Since 2003). The others came in the 2012 (+3) and 2006 (+6) U.S. Open. • Was his second time shooting 64 with three bogeys, the other being the second round of the 1996 John Deere Classic. • Was his seventh time shooting 29 on either front- or back-nine in a PGA TOUR event (29 on outward nine). • Woods has previously held the 18-hole lead/co-lead 30 times and has converted that into victory 15 times. The last three times were converted to wins. (2006 and 2002 World Golf Championships – Mexico Championships and 2005 Open Championship). • Since 1983 10 players (with a minimum of three) have converted 50 percent (or more) of first round leads/co-leads. Ernie Els (67%, 4 of 6), Justin Thomas (67%, 4 of 6), Ben Crane (67%, 2 of 3) and Patrick Reed (60%, 3 of 5) are the only players with a better percentage than Woods. • If you look at players who had a minimum 10 first-round leads/co-leads since 1983, Woods’ 50 percent rate is the best. Nick Price (40%, 6 of 15) is the next-best. • Woods has won seven times in his first start of the season – 1997 Sentry Tournament of Champions, 2000 Sentry Tournament of Champions, 2003 Buick Invitational, 2006 Buick Invitational, 2007 Buick Invitational, 2008 Buick Invitational, 2013 Farmers Insurance Open.

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Webb Simpson tees it up for the first time since his runaway at THE PLAYERS Championship, joining favorite son Jordan Spieth to headline a strong roster as the PGA TOUR makes its 73rd visit to venerable Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Jon Rahm and Justin Rose also are in the field, choosing Colonial over the European Tour’s BMW PGA Championship, while Rickie Fowler gives the tournament four of the top 10 in the current world rankings. Kevin Kisner is defending champion. FIELD NOTES Rose tees it up at Colonial for the first time since 2009, telling reporters he chose the event to fulfill a TOUR regulation requiring members to play one stop they haven’t visited in the past four years. U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka makes his third start since returning from a wrist injury. He tied for 11th at THE PLAYERS Championship. In all, the Colonial field features 13 of the top 30 in the rankings. Keith Clearwater, the 1987 champion, is set to make his 30th start at Colonial. That’ll move him within three of Ben Crenshaw’s all-time record. Chilean teen Joaquin Niemann, making his fourth professional start, tops a wealth of young talent also on display. Niemann placed sixth in his pro debut at the Valero Texas Open. The list of young guns also features Sam Burns – already a winner on the Web.com Tour – and former No.1 amateur Maverick McNealy. FEDEXCUP Winner receives 500 points. STORYLINES Spieth, whose 2016 title stands as his only win in his home state, remains in search of his first win since last year’s sizzling Open Championship finish. Though his closing 64 at the Masters is one of five scores of 66 or better since late March, he also has three cards of 74 or higher. Ryan Palmer, a Colonial member, owns four top-15 finishes in the past six years, including a share of third in 2016. He also tied for fifth in 2012 and ‘14. Kisner seeks to join Ben Hogan as the only man to record back-to-back wins at Colonial. Hogan did it twice – 1946-47 and 1952-53. Eight of the past nine winners have done so in come-from-behind fashion, with Spieth the lone exception. Barring a late WD, Matt Kuchar, Peter Uihlein and Jhonattan Vegas will be the only players to tee it up in all five Texas stops this year. It’s the 15th anniversary of Annika Sorenstam’s historic entry, becoming the first woman to tee up in a PGA TOUR event since World War II. The Invitational returns next year with a new title sponsor in Charles Schwab investments, a longtime sponsor of the PGA TOUR Champions season race. COURSE Colonial Country Club, 7,209 yards, par 70. A staple on the PGA TOUR schedule since 1946, only Augusta National has served a longer uninterrupted tenure as host. The 1936 Perry Maxwell/John Bredemus design is a timeless shotmaker’s layout, challenging golfers with tight fairways and several doglegs. It also was the first Texas club to install bentgrass greens. Colonial welcomed the U.S. Open in 1941 – the first Open contested south of the Mason-Dixon Line – and the TOUR settled in five years later. Colonial also staged the second edition of THE PLAYERS in 1975, along with the 1991 U.S. Women’s Open. 72-HOLE RECORD 259, Zach Johnson (2010). 18-HOLE RECORD 61, Keith Clearwater (2nd round, 1993), Lee Janzen (4th round, 1993), Greg Kraft (3rd round, 1999), Kenny Perry (3rd round, 2003), Justin Leonard (4th round, 2003), Chad Campbell (3rd round, 2004). LAST YEAR Kisner captured his second PGA TOUR victory, capping a 4-under-par 66 with a clutch par save to hold off Sunday challenges from Spieth, Rahm and Sean O’Hair. Three straight birdies to start Colonial’s back nine moved Kisner to the front, adding another at No.15 for a two-shot advantage before a bogey at the par-3 16th. Spieth’s challenge went wayward off the tee at No.18, and Rahm’s 10-foot try for a closing birdie just skirted the hole. Kisner’s approach at the 18th rolled off the back of the green, but he putted up the slope to 5 feet and converted the par save as Spieth stood on a chair to see the finish. Kisner’s victory followed runner-up weekends earlier in the spring at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Zurich Classic. HOW TO FOLLOW TELEVISION: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:45 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. (featured groups), 4-7 p.m. (featured holes). RADIO: Thursday-Friday, 1-7 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com).

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