Highlights | Round 1 | ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP | 2024

We'll start with Justin Thomas making his second appearance in this event. Began his day on the 10th, this is 11 for Birdie. Yeah, slippery putt here from just above the hole and how about this track and these greens running 12 to 12 and a half from above the hole you have to be precise. Beautiful putt there for JT. Minwoo Lee par 3 third. Yeah and how's this to get your day started even through the first two holes par 3 third today. Just a short iron for these guys. He takes dead aim at that one as well. Tap in Birdie. Ricky Fowler different looking wand but the putter heating up. Yeah and you can see this track and great angle from behind the hole here and that thing was dead center and everyone thought about missing. Keeping it going on the back side. Justin Thomas at 17. Yeah, beautiful shot there just above the hole and just catches that right side for another birdie for JT. Maracau trying to bounce back. Nasty 7 on the previous hole. Just 167 here. Got to get it just up and over that little ridge short of the hole and he's done just that. Beautiful tee shot. That's how you rebound from a double. Guaranteed 4 but still has an outside chance there. 13. How about here for Birdie. Yeah. Threes by PGA TOUR standards. Pretty gettable and there's one for Hideki. Hideki Matsuyama at even par. Big unknown this week. What the winning score will wind up being with these conditions as Matsuyama flagging that one. Speaking of birdie pots Matsuyama at four. What a shot he hit in here. What a bonus that is and walk it in Hideki. He's got some massive crowds out there today. Gotta watch out for the spider webs. Graham was admiring them earlier as we're on the 16th. I'm assuming you were just walking the front side earlier. Did you get to the back side? No, I went the full 18. Savarikas, don't you worry. CT pan. The full way for birdie. That's a two at 16. He's three under. On that fifth, the par three, they switch between the two greens. They're using the right green today. Which is an old school feature here in Japan. Graserman emerges from the pack. He's now at five under par. The 13th Shimizu. You mentioned this front right pin. Seven on six from the right, but it's really only about three on it. Three from the right. The way that this green falls off. Camera doesn't really do it much justice there. And it's 26 year old Takumi Kanaya. Won the token homemade cup on the Japan golf tour earlier this season. Filling it up. CT Pan has this for three birdies in a row. He's playing in that first group out with Graserman. Actually a couple of holes ahead of the group behind them. Ben Griffin had some issues at 14. So they're not far away from setting some targets in the clubhouse. Takumi Kanaya on the tee at the 13th. We've seen some really good ones here. At the Asia Pacific Amateur Championship. It's become really calm. Morikawa got here a few days early. You think that's much of an advantage if you're trying to acclimate to the time zone shift? Yeah, I definitely think it is. And also you can come over and kind of enjoy yourself. Thomas enjoyed that one. What a shot from the trees to 13. Eric Cole off the tee at the par three. Oh yeah, really good. Couple of good tee shots there. Justin Thomas. Well, perfect tee shot. Obviously wasn't a great second shot to end up in those trees, but beautiful third and fourth. And that's a good birdie there from JT. Now at 300, only a couple back. It's been pretty accessible. Everything kind of back to front where this pin is, so it'd be pretty aggressive. Kinoshita on the par 3, 16th away from the water. That's to pull within one of those three guys tied at five under. I've seen this putt made quite a few times today. It almost funnels down towards the hole. Beautiful birdie. Look at all those birdies today. CT Pan in the go zone at the par 5, 18th. Yeah, this is another difficult tee shot to kind of try. You have to cut a bit off the corner. He hit a good one here. Oh, just carries the bunker. Gave it a good run. Unbelievable shot there from CT Pan. And the man who won that playoff was CT Pan. Took the bronze at the Tokyo Games a few years ago. This for Eagle in the lead, and he knew right off the play that he had left it open. Missed that to the right. Great start for Pan. Yeah, it's kind of one of those groups where guys are feeding off each other. Couple 500 par rounds. What a finish. Graceman for birdie on the last. A six under 64. Now for the fourth time, Tom, in five years, we've seen a 64 on day number one. Graceman has the lead. Par 70 layout for the Zozo Championship. We drove this golf course earlier this morning. I told you, George, if anyone's left for this hole, it's probably an accident, but you are putting right back up the hill from down there. So great birdie. And we are now on the par 5 14th, measuring 615 yards from Zozo's third. Yeah, tough to get home in two here, so just laying back. And you want to lay back just far enough so you don't get down the hill. What a great day. A chance to get one of those shots back. Perfect tee shot here at the 8. Just a wedge in. Even with that pin over top of the bunker, you're taking dead aim here. He's had one of the best ball striking seasons of his career. Pin high there. Let's look here. Great roll by Thomas. He's at four under par. Trying to move to four under par. A couple wins this season on the Japan Golf Tour as seven in his career on that circuit. Oh, curls that one in. Up one to 15. This is his 33rd event of the season, Eric Cole. He has played a lot of golf. Second shot here. He must just, he just loves it. Loves competing. Back one at 14. Morikawa pushed it up here in two. This left first third. Yeah, he's trying to hit probably just like a little low skipper back in there. Oh, took a peek at it, George. This par three, we got Rico Hoey here. What was this hole location like, Justin? It's, I'd say, probably one of the easiest the pins you can get on the green. I mean, it's in a in a bowl there. Pin doesn't really matter where it is if you hit it like that. But, you know, you just fight like crazy to stay up till about 8.30 or somehow make it to nine and then you wake up at 4 or 4.30 and start your day. It actually would be a pretty nice trend to get into at home. Watching Taylor Moore here on the 8th. We're about to head to commercial. Say goodbye to you. I know tournament organizers, fans here. We're really excited to have you make your second appearance at the Zozo Championship, so we appreciate you making the trip all the way over here to be in the field this week. One of the best iron players in the game. Let's watch Colin Morikawa at the par 3. 16th. Shimizu on the 18th. Forced to lay up here, but this is a pretty accessible wedge shot. Green kind of tilts back to front back there, so you can be aggressive. A little twirl from Shimizu. That's a nice way to finish the day. Stress-free birdie at the 18th. Can Eric Cole finish on a high note? Eagle putt on 18. You bet! Six under 64 for Eric Cole. Second at the 17th. He's just inside the top one FedEx Cup rankings. Back to S.H. Kim. Jump up to four and a par. Oh, he knew it. The number of putts being made on the 16th hole today is just shocking to me. They're pouring them in from everywhere. The greens are receptive. They're rolling nicely and the weather so far is holding up. The big x-factor if the wind kicks up and conditions can really change day-to-day. Should be some overnight rain, so we'll see how much that softens the course for round number two from Chiba, Japan. Thanks for watching the PGA Tour on YouTube. To watch more, click here. To subscribe, click here.