Barracuda Championship 2015: Leaderboard Scores and Highlights from Thursday

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Published: August 7, 2015

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The Barracuda Championship opened its first round Thursday, August 6 at the Montreux Golf and Country Club in Reno, Nevada. 

The PGA's only Modified Stableford event, scoring is a bit different in this tournament than traditional play. Instead of strokes being added or subtracted from a golfer's score, points are rewarded depending on the result of each hole.

This style of play implores golfers to play more aggressively. PGATour.com states that "the strategy in Modified Stableford formats can, in most instances, be summed up in three words: Go for it."

Here is the leaderboard after Thursday's first round with a look at the game's format and some of the day's most notable performers. 



The PGA Tour breaks down scoring for the Barracuda Championship like this:

Double Eagle: 8 points Eagle: 5 points Birdie: 2 points Par: 0 points Bogey: -1 point Double Bogey or more: -3 points With a number of players within touching distance of the top spot, it's Zack Sucher who paces the pack with 18 points on his first round, a tournament record. His birdie on 16 put him at the Stableford record-tying 18, as shown by the PGA Tour:



Sucher certainly went for it, and his aggressive play paid off, recording nine birdies during a clean outing that saw no bogeys. 

With averages well over the tournament mark with an 85.71 percent driving accuracy and 88.89 percent greens in regulation percentage, Sucher was able to gain 4.834 strokes in his putting game. 

Three points behind Sucher in second place is Patrick Rodgers at 15. With five points on the front nine, Rodgers tallied off four consecutive birdies from Nos. 11-14 before ending the day with another on the 18th hole. 

Rodgers' monster drives with an average of 332.5 yards put him in favorable positions and shorter approach situations, thus allowing him to rack...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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