Unheralded Austrian Sepp Straka was the surprise leader after a weather-interrupted first round of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics golf tournament Thursday as home favourite Hideki Matsuyama and British Open champion Collin Morikawa suffered frustrating starts.
World number 161 Straka took advantage of early benign conditions to set the pace with a bogey-free eight-under par 63 at Kasumigaseki Country Club.
He leads by a stroke from Thailand’s former Asian Tour Order of Merit winner Jazz Janewattananond.
Matsuyama and Morikawa both finished at two-under par 69, either side of play being suspended for more than two hours in the afternoon because of a lightning storm.
“Just simply I didn’t play well today,” lamented Matsuyama who has not played…
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