Paul Casey leads after day one of the 2020 Masters
November 13, 2020
The first day of the 2020 Masters is complete with England’s Paul Casey in the lead at seven-under-par. However, due to a three-hour morning rainstorm, which included thunder and lightning, the first round did not get completed on Thursday.
There are currently three players two strokes back of Casey. They are Americans Webb Simpson of Raleigh, North Carolina; Xander Schauffele of La Jolla, California; and Justin Thomas of Louisville, Kentucky. Simpson and Thomas have won a major before as Simpson won the 2012 U.S. Open, while Thomas won the 2017 Pga Championship.
Schauffele meanwhile has been consistently in contention for a major title the last four years and needs to be considered a serious contender. He has been in the top six in the last four U.S. Opens, and in second place at the 2018 British Open and the 2019 Masters. There is no doubt he is knocking on the door for a chance to win a major title. Even though Schauffele has not won on the PGA Tour in 2020, he has won four times over the last three years, including the prestigious 2017 Tour Championship, the 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions, and the 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions.
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There is also an eight-way tie for fifth place. There you will see four players who have not won a major in the past and four players who have. The four players with a major who are three strokes back at -4 are 15-time major champion Tiger Woods of Cypress, California, 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed of San Antonio, Texas, 2012 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa, and 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott of Australia.
The four players who are three strokes back and looking for their first Major title are Lee Westwood of England, Dylan Frittelli of South Africa, Matthew Wolff of Simi Valley, California and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan. It should be noted that Westwood is still looking for his first major title even though he has competed in 83 majors in the past. Of the players currently in contention at the Masters, the four players who did not finish round one were Thomas, Scott, Frittelli and Wolff.
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