Richard Bland of LIV Golf is making his senior major debut and making the most of it. Bland played bogey-free at Harbor Shores for a 64. That gives him a share of the first-round lead with Richard Green on Australia in the Senior PGA Championship. Bland was eligible last year for a one-time exemption from a European tour win in the last five years.
Richard Green tees off on the 17th hole during the first round of Senior PGA Championship golf tournament Thursday, May 23, 2024, at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich. Bernhard Langer uses a cart on the first hole during the first round of Senior PGA Championship golf tournament Thursday, May 23, 2024, at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich.
The Englishman couldn’t take the exemption last year because the Senior PGA was the same week as LIV Golf Bedminster in New Jersey. But he was able to use it this year. He is one of the three players on LIV Golf in their 50s, joining Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson. Bland has one top 10 on LIV this year and is 24th on the money list with just under $1.9 million — nearly $700,000 more than Steven Alker, who leads the Charles Schwab Cup on the PGA Tour Champions.
“Hit it just perfect and just shaped it in there nicely and it was tracking towards the hole,” Green said. “I think it ran across the edge of the hole and finished about maybe 7 feet past the hole. So that was obviously one of those exceptional holes at the right time to get the round going really well.”Stricker had never seen Harbor Shores until this week and felt uncomfortable with some of the sight lines off the tee.
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