For its first-ever PGA Tour event Hurstbourne will play as a par 70, stretching 7,056 yards.
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The first round of the Isco Championship is underway right now and WDRB sports Tom Lane and Eric Crawford are live at the Hurstbor Country Club catching up with all the action, guys. It has been a full opening round here at the Isco Championship still going on. They started at 6:45 with the opening tea times and the course has held up very well, Eric. I think there was talk that that maybe guys would kind of tear this place up. For the most part, it’s held up. It’s held up very well. There was one incredible round by Chan Kim who had missed six of his last seven cuts. Shot at 9 under 61. That was a course record this morning. Yeah, that that’s pretty phenomenal when you consider that still nobody’s within four shot, you know, closer than four shots of him. A lot of guys at minus five. And I think the course has had a little bit more bite this afternoon because nobody’s really been able to make a move. It’s rewarded precision and not power. Kim made every green in regulation. Yeah. Uh and and so if you do that and play that really pinpoint game with a good game plan, it rewards you. Yeah, pretty incredible round. And as you say, he has separated himself. He has a four shot lead as the second wave is just winding down. And that includes four of the five Saints golfers who uh are in this event. Daniel Iceman went out early. He had an eight over 78. Struggled on the back nine. The other four are out this afternoon and still playing. Steven Stallings Jr. got it to three under. He is at even par now. Uh Brendan Doyle is one over par. His brother Drew Doyle is at plus two and Cooper Muscleman at plus two. So they are still very much in the mix right now. It looks like the uh the um cut may be somewhere in the neighborhood of even par. Yep. Yeah. No, they’re right in there. And there, you know, you got to say there’s some pressure starting the tournament on your home court here at home. All your families watching and I think we saw that with each of those guys. Uh they may have given up a stroke or two early that they wish they had back, but they played pretty solid the rest of the way. It’s just been hard on this course to make up ground uh as it plays on this afternoon. Yeah, I I just heard Peter Malady, who is one of those guys tied for second and five under, talking about how unusual it is for bent grass greens like this to be as firm as they are. He said usually in the summer, most of the courses they play with bent grass don’t get this firm because they’re afraid of burning them out, but they have got them firm and fast here. Well, and there’s been, you know, it’s been a lot of rain here. You just don’t know with the conditions leading up to a tournament, but we’ve seen a lot of putts. They don’t just go past the hole a little. They go past the whole lot. You still have work to do, which shows you how firm they are. Yeah, they they were hoping for heat and humidity in the in the weeks leading up to this and they got it and they got the course in uh in great condition. As we mentioned, Chan Kim, the leader at nine under, the second wave just finishing up. We will update things tonight at 10. For Eric Crawford, I’m Tom Lane. We are live at Hersbourne Country Club for WDRB sports and
