Highlights | Round 1 | Barracuda Championship | 2025

Check out the best shots of the day from Round 1 of the 2025 Barracuda Championship, featuring Joel Dahmen, Danny Walker and David Lipsky.

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The PGA TOUR returns to Tahoe Mountain Club in California this week for the Barracuda Championship with plenty of up-and-coming talent alongside established names teeing it up. One of the most notable being Max Homa who returns to Truckee for the first time since 2017 after a T5 finish in his last start at the John Deere Classic as he looks to improve his standing in the FedExCup. Defending champion Nick Dunlap became the first player to win as both an amateur and professional in the same season last year. There’s plenty on the line for Adam Hadwin this week, who finds himself at No. 129 in the FedExCup standings. Former champions teeing up this week include Erik van Rooyen, Chez Reavie and Andrew Putnam.

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It’s mountain golf in all its glory this week. A little different from the seaside links over at the open. Tahoe Mountain Club, more than 6,000 ft above sea level. The highest altitude of any PGA Tour stop this season as we welcome you into the first round of the Barracuda Championship. Different format. We have the modified Stableford scoring system. This is the only event that has it annually on the PGA Tour. Double eagle eight points. Eagle five points. Birdie two points. In the negative is a bogey minus one or a double bogey or worse minus three. I’m George Sabrias alongside Graham Delet. Some of the players getting off to fast starts today. How about Lanto Griffin in his opening nine began off the 10th on the 18th for Birdie and two points as he was about to make the turn. Griffin buckets wound up with an 11point start. He’s on the first page of the leaderboard. Also playing well, David Skins on the 17th for birdie in two points. Skins finished with 11 points on the day as well. Andrew Wilson, one of the 50 DP World Tour players teeing it up this week at the Barracuda Championship on the 18th, drips it in. Wilson had plus nine points. One of the stories of the day, 2024 PGA Professional Championship winner, Ben Pollen, the club pro at Shooting Star in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, filling it up on the ninth. Yeah, he knows something about playing at altitude. So, that’s something to watch. Very similar that it is there in Jackson Hole. And if you thought that was good, this was better on the 17th. The drivable par4 greenside bunker. He splashes it out. Look at this, Gramp. And that’s how you make a big move in this modified Stableford system right there. Eagles. Five points for the Eagle. Pollen on the 10th. Second shot for Joel Damon to the 484 yd par4. Yeah, this pin tuck left or tucked in the back right, but there’s a room left that you can use some slope here and he just carried it a little bit too far. But you can see that will come back. Very accessible pin there today. Joel Damon down the hill like this for another two points. The big talk, wasn’t it? He and Gino splitting up. Same side up to the 15th. David Lipsky taking one last look at the hole. This for Eagle on the par five. Lipsky filling it up. Joel Damon on the 11th just made one of similar length. So that hole looking good. Stroke feeling good right now for Joel. He needs a couple big weeks as you mentioned George on the 13th. This hole has been very biable for the field today. Can Joel Damon with the swinger from left to right add to that? He’s up to 10 points. He is filling it up right now since we came on air. Good to see David Lipsky on the 17th. This that driveable par4 just in that front bunker. That’s a good place to be today. Tough to get it in there, but if you can, I mean, that’s just a simple little splash and just chase out back to that hole. That’ll be a kick in for Joel Damon in there tied on 14. He’s got it going right now. Jumps from 15th all the way up to fifth with 12 points. Lipsky in the fairway on 18 about to make the turn. Yeah, we’ve seen this back stop in behind this hole that you can use here. The false front’s a little bit of a danger, but that’s a well played shot. Just pin high right. Can he keep the heater going? And Lipsky on a roll. About that. Eight points on the par four, seven on the par fives, 15 points. He’s one back. Trying to get to three points. He’s got the short par4 coming up. Gathering some momentum there. The South African. Couple birdies here on his second nine. At the end of the year it is the top 100 who keep their cards at the end of the season. Chris Corte on the par4 17th. Hello. Drops that in for Eagle and five points. Yeah, and like I said, this whole it’s almost impossible to drive it on the actual putting green, but everybody’s going to be up there and it’s just leaving it kind of in the right spot and trying to hit a good pitch shot. But what a bonus that is for five across the pond from the 15th. Danny Walker birdie putt in route and bottoms it out. That’s a couple unexpected points there going in the drivable eighth or Oh, sorry. That was on the other side. I apologize. Yeah, there’s a big false front in front of this green. You almost have to carry it up on top. You can’t chase anything up there. He’s on the par five and two as well. David Lipsky for birdie at the third to get back on track here. And well done. He’s just a very solid player is David. There’s no great weakness to the game. He’ll start to look like the guy that we saw last year rip off two wins at such a young age. Joel Damon knew that that was coming up short right away. Or so he thought. Fool me once. Joel Damon. That’s a birdie on the last that he walked in ever so slightly and 13 points. That would also match him with 13 points. Wow, what a round of golf. That was a lot of putts made for Danny Walker. Feels like it’s uh starting to pick back up a little bit. But it kind of laid down there when they were on the tea. Oh, this is a good line right here. Yeah, beautiful. Another one of those little kind of abbreviated short followthroughs. Just kind of punching something in there kind of low. There you go. You need a little fist bump. Yeah. And for a former champion, I I think this round cap it off possibly with one more. Well, this looks pretty good. Might need to go just a hair. Got one big bounce right below the hole. Beautiful to get in with 11. And the former champions lurking. Great birdie for Van Royan. He’s gone win in T6 in his two starts at the Barracuda Championship. Here’s the leaderboards. Ben Martin finished much earlier in the day with 16 points. How you reading things so far, Graham? Well, I mean, you you see we’re seeing both sides of it. I mean, if you can get on a little bit of a run here, play some aggressive golf, that’s what this format, uh, you know, shows. You can go out and you get a ton of points, especially if you can knock an eagle down. If you’re off though on this golf course and you start making a couple bogeies and doubles, they can start to pile up on you, too, and you can go the other way pretty fast. Thanks for watching the PJ tour on YouTube. Watch another video right here.