Late eagle lifts Louis Oosthuizen to first-round lead in Mexico

India’s Shubhankar Sharma will take part in the 2018 World Golf Championship to be held in Mexico from March 1-4

India’s Shubhankar Sharma will take part in the 2018 World Golf Championship to be held in Mexico from March 1-4

On Wednesday, Jon Rahm, who is from Spain and was a fan favorite past year at the WGC-Mexico Championship when he tied for third place, announced he would be donating $1,000 for each birdie and $3,000 for every eagle he makes this week to the Mexican Red Cross to help with ongoing recovery efforts.

Paisley fired seven birdies and a solitary bogey to card an opening six-under-par 65 at Chapultepec Golf Club and end the day just a shot behind former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen.

Paisley shared second place with Tour Championship victor Xander Schauffele, with Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello and Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat on five under.

Leishman mixed his card with five birdies and three bogeys to be in a tie for 13th. "I really kind of started on Tuesday, wasn't swinging it very well, and then yesterday I just was hitting it terrible. I've got a nice little cut going, and it's nice to be able to just aim left and swing away", said Oosthuizen.

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"I've been swinging it pretty good the last two or three weeks". "It's all about the ball flight you put on it".

Golf takes precedence at this time of the year, though, as the sport's elite hone their games for the first major of the year at the Masters next month, while also trying to pick up a World Golf Championships title along the way.

England's Chris Paisley may not have been deemed worthy of a profile picture on the tournament website, but his name featured proudly near the top of the leaderboard after the first round of the WGC-Mexico Championship. (It was) a bit of a scrappy finish with a few missed clubs and a poor shot on 17 but I held it together. "To play as well as I did and shoot a great score against the world's best players and to be right up there, I'm just delighted".

Paisley won the South African Open in January - his first European Tour victory - and followed up with consecutive top-five finishes against strong global fields in the Middle East.

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