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First-Round Leaderboard

Pos.        Player    R1

T1           Harry Hall             64 (-7)

T1           Jeremy Paul         64 (-7)

T1           Kris Ventura         64 (-7)

T4           Five players          65 (-6) 

Leading Asian/Aussie Scores

T9           Ryo Hisatsune 66 (-5)

T9           Takumi Kanaya 66 (-5)

T18        Kevin Yu              67 (-4)

T18        Aaron Baddeley 67 (-4)

T31        Rico Hoey           68 (-3)

Harry Hall (T1/-7)

• Holds third 18-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR and second this season (0-for-2 to date; T3/2023 Charles Schwab Challenge, T10/2025 Sony Open in Hawaii)
• Making third consecutive start at Mexico Open at VidantaWorld (T10/2023, T33/2024)
• Winner of the 2024 ISCO Championship

Jeremy Paul (T1/-7)

• Records 7-under 64, his career-low 18-hole score and holds the lead for the first time in his 11^th round on TOUR
• PGA TOUR rookie making fourth start on TOUR (best: T45/Sony Open in Hawaii)
• Earned membership after finishing 21^st on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List

Kris Ventura (T1/-7)

• 64 marks his career low opening-round score
• Puebla, Mexico native’s best finish in 56 starts on TOUR: T4/Farmers Insurance Open
• Holds first lead after any round on TOUR (previous best 18-hole position: T12/2020 Sanderson Farms Championship/finished T6)
• Making his tournament debut at the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld
• Returning to the PGA TOUR for the first time since 2021; played back-to-back TOUR seasons (2019-20, 2020-21)
• Earned TOUR membership for a second time, finished No. 24 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List

Miscellaneous notes

• Ryan Fox of New Zealand made a 91 foot 7 inches putt on the par 3 5^th hole during his round of 68 which the longest putt of the 2024 PGA TOUR season at 88 feet, 10 inches, which he also holed last year. Story Here
• Argentina’s Alejandro Tosti (T4/-6) earned his first career top 10 at the 2023 Mexico Open at VidantaWorld playing on a sponsors exemption
• Making his second start at the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld (T4/2023) Akshay Bhatia (T9) opens with a 5-under 66; one of 10 players in the field that competed at last week’s Genesis Invitational (finished T9)
• Jake Knapp (T18/-4) seeks to become the first player to successfully defend his title at the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld; last player to successfully defend a title on TOUR: World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (2024 THE PLAYERS Championship)
• First-round scores of the five players from Mexico in the field: Santiago de la Fuente (67), Gerardo Gómez (70), Álvaro Ortiz (72), José Antonio Safa (72), José Cristóbal Islas (73)