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Golf | Rory McIlroy, first leader of the World Golf Championship

The norinnish Rory McIlroy signed this Thursday a 65 hit card, six under par, to become the first leader of the World Golf Championship of the City of Mexico, at the conclusion of the initial round.

McIlroy made five birdies, an eagle and just a bogey to take a couple of shots ahead of Bubba Watson and Justin Thomas and rise to the top of the leaderboard where the español Jon Rahm, third in the PGA ranking, signed 72, one above, and appears twenty-ninth.

The defending champion, the American Dustin Johnson he was far away of his best performance and finished his first ride with 76 strokes, five above par, relegating it to 62nd.

He WGC of Mexico, endowed with a prize pool of 10.2 million dollars, is one of the stops of the World Golf Championships, along with the Dell Technologies Match Play, based in Austin, Texas; the FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, Tennessee, and the HSBC Champions in Shanghai, China.

morning the second round at the Chaultepec club, located 2,240 meters above sea level.

Classification after the first round

.1. Rory McIlroy (IRL) 65(-6)

.2. Bubba Watson (USA) 67

.Justin Thomas (USA) 67

.4. Louis Oosthouzen (RSA) 68

.Billy Horschel (USA) 68

.Corey Conners (USA) 68

.Brywon DeChambeur (USA) 68

.8. Tyrell Hatton (GBR) 69

.Paul Casey (GBR) 69

.Patrick Reed (USA) 69

.Sungjae Im (KOR) 69

.Lee Westwood (GBR) 69

.Hideyi Matsuyama (JPN) 69

14. Abraham Ancer (MEX) 70

19. Rafa Cabrera (ESP) 71

Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 71

Sebastian Muñoz (ESP) 71

29. Jon Rahm (ESP) 72

49. Sergio Garcia 74

55. Carlos Ortiz (MEX) 75

69. Jorge Campillo (ESP) 77.

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