Casey withstands triple-bogey for share of lead

Akshay Bhatia joined a short list - one that includes Jack Nicklaus - with his performance Thursday at the AT&T Pebble Pro-Am. Pebble Beach is known for its tiny greens but Bhatia hit all 18 of them in his first-round 64. He is the first player since 2008 to hit every green in a round at Pebble. RELATED: Full leaderboard "It was a good day," the 19-year-old said. He is just the seventh player since 1983 (when the TOUR started keeping hole-by-hole statistics) to hit all 18 greens in a round at Pebble Beach, including both the AT&T and the four U.S. Opens held at Pebble Beach in that span. A total of 10,303 PGA TOUR rounds have been played at Pebble Beach since 1983, meaning a player has hit all 18 greens just 0.07% of the time or once in every 1,472 rounds. Last season, Pebble Beach had the eighth-hardest greens to hit on TOUR (62.9%). Bhatia also gained more than three strokes on the greens, holing three putts from outside 15 feet. A recent switch from an arm-lock to a short putter paid off. "It's probably the first time I've ever putted this well," he said. The longest one he made was a 21-footer for birdie on his first hole of the day, the par-4 10th. He added birdies on 14 and 17 to make the turn in 3-under 33. Bhatia added birdies at Nos. 2 and 3 and 6-8. His last birdie came after a 207-yard dart to 3 feet on the eighth hole, which requires an approach over the cliffs to a tiny green. It was the most difficult hole Thursday, playing to a 4.23 average and allowing just five birdies. It helped that Bhatia was more concerned with his snack than the daunting approach. "I was peeling an orange and it was so bad that I was just thinking about the orange and my caddie goes, ‘OK, we got 207.' I said, ‘OK, I got to (hit),'" Bhatia said. "Just kind of hit-and-see kind of thing. It was a great birdie to steal there." He had no bogeys Thursday. Bhatia, 19, is making his fifth start of the season. He finished T9 at the Safeway Open, making him the youngest player to finish in the top-10 of a stroke-play event on TOUR since Justin Rose finished fourth at the 1998 Open Championship. Bhatia also part of another interesting note this week. His presence in the field means that Phil Mickelson has played the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with players born in every decade from the 1920s to the 2000s.

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MELBOURNE, Australia – The International Team continues to roll at Royal Melbourne. Foursomes has usually been a session dominated by the United States, but the International Team looks like it will increase the 4-1 lead it took after the first day. Stay here for updates after each match finishes. PRESIDENTS CUP: Scoring | Quiz: Which team should you support? DAY 2 FOURSOMES MATCH 1: INTERNATIONAL WINS, 3 and 2 Louis Oosthuizen/Adam Scott (International) def. Dustin Johnson/Matt Kuchar (U.S.) Holes won: International 6, U.S. 3 Holes led: U.S. 8, International 6 Recap: Kuchar got the U.S. Team on the board by holing a 13-foot birdie putt on the first hole. He made a 20-footer on No. 5 to give his team a 2-up lead. The United States was still 2 up after seven holes, but it didn’t win another hole the rest of the match. The International Team won three of the next four holes, taking the lead with Scott’s 8-foot birdie putt on 11. The International team tacked on wins at 13 and 14. Scott and Oosthuizen are both 2-0 this week. MATCH 2: U.S. WINS, 1 UP Patrick Cantlay/Xander Schauffele (U.S.) def. Adam Hadwin/Joaquin Niemann (International) Holes won: U.S. 6, International 5 Holes led: International 6, U.S. 3 Recap: Cantlay holed a big putt for the United States, sinking a 14-footer for birdie on 18 to give his team its first win of the session. It was Cantlay and Schauffele’s first lead since the 11th hole. The Internationals had the early lead, winning the first hole after Niemann hit his approach to 8 feet. The International Team was still 1 up after eight holes, but the U.S. birdied 9 to square the match at the turn. The International Team took a 1-up lead with a birdie at the par-3 14th, where Niemann hit his tee shot to 5 feet, but they couldn’t keep it. The U.S. birdied the next hole, though, and added another at 18. MATCH 3: INTERNATIONAL WINS, 3 and 2 Abraham Ancer/Marc Leishman (International) def. Patrick Reed/Webb Simpson (U.S.) Holes won: International 7, U.S. 4 Holes led: International 13, U.S. 1 Recap: Simpson stiffed his approach shot at No. 1 for an opening birdie. The Internationals won the next two holes, though, and were still 1 up after seven holes. Ancer holed a 40-footer on 8 to give his team a 2-up lead. The U.S. won the next after Simpson stiffed another approach, but Ancer holed a 10-foot birdie putt to win the 10th. The Internatioanls added wins at Nos. 12 and 14 to take a 4-up lead and guarantee at least a half-point. They closed it out on the 16th hole. Reed is now 1-5 in his last six matches in the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup, and Reed-Simpson is 0-2 as a team this week.

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Luke List fended off Will Zalatoris well after sunset with a birdie on the first playoff hole at Torrey Pines.

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