{"id":5309,"date":"2024-10-03T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dunhill-links-championship-world-number-462-darren-fichardt-leads-on-day-one\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:19:01","slug":"dunhill-links-championship-world-number-462-darren-fichardt-leads-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dunhill-links-championship-world-number-462-darren-fichardt-leads-on-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunhill Links Championship: World number 462 Darren Fichardt leads on day one"},"content":{"rendered":"


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South African Darren Fichardt hit a superb 11-under-par 61 at Kingsbarns to lead by one stroke on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 49-year-old world number 462 finished one off the course record of 60 which was struck by his countryman Branden Grace in 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fichardt <\/b>last struck a round of 61 at the 2001 Sao Paulo Brazil Open.<\/p>\n

His last European Tour win was at the Joburg Open in 2017.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, he hit nine birdies, two eagles and two bogeys for a one-shot lead over Australia’s Cameron John.<\/p>\n

England’s two-time Dunhill champion Tyrrell Hatton and Spain’s Jon Rahm both went round in seven under at Carnoustie – traditionally the hardest of the three courses used in the Pro-Am event on the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre carded a five-under 67 also at Carnoustie, where Tommy Fleetwood and defending champion Matthew Fitzpatrick both shot 68.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy was playing the same course but his three-under 69 in favourable scoring conditions was only good enough for tied 73rd.<\/p>\n

The Old Course at St Andrews is the third course in the tournament’s rotation, where new Zealand’s Daniel Hillier hit the round of the day – a nine-under 63 to out him in a tie for third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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South African Darren Fichardt hit a superb 11-under-par 61 at Kingsbarns to lead by one stroke on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The 49-year-old world number 462 finished one off the course record of 60 which was struck by his countryman Branden Grace in 2012. Fichardt last struck a round of 61 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}