Reavie, who hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since the 2008 Canadian Open, set the back nine at Monterey alight making four straight birdies on holes 10 to 13, before again making birdie on 15 and dropping an eagle putt on the par-five 16th to finish the round with the outright lead.
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England’s Justin Rose was among seven players at six under.
Young Australian golfer Cameron Smith is in a tie for second after the first round of at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Spieth said a shaky short game led to setbacks on some of the course’s easier holes. “Stuff that I don’t need to look into too much, it was just bad timing where the misses were in the wrong spots”. “It’s kind of a bit odd”. Bubba Watson, playing the AT&T for the first time in nine years, shot 1-over 73 and was derailed primarily by two double bogeys.
“A bit weak”, was Spieth’s assessment of his round, which included four birdies and three bogeys.
The Englishman made back-to-back birdies at the third and fourth as well as seven and eight to turn in 32, and he then holed his greenside bunker escape for another gain at the 10th.
“Even on days I putt well, I still don’t make as many putts as I made today”, Reavie said.
Smith is a 22-year-old Australian prospect who shot 7-under 64 at MPCC, and Burgoon is 28-year-old Texan who finally made the leap from the Web.com satellite this year.
Justin Rose follows his shot from the fourth tee of the Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Pebble Beach, Calif.
“So a little frustrating with that but, all in all, to actually shoot one under with what I felt like I should have shot today is promising, considering we are going to the two easier courses, in my mind”. “I’ll certainly get better when it comes to the wedge play”.
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“If I continue to get better like I think I have been, I should have a good result here”, he said.
