Who is leading the 2024 LIV Golf Andalucia after Day 1? Leaderboard explored

The first round of the 2024 LIV Golf Andalucia concluded on Friday, July 12 at the Real Club Valderrama, Spain. The course once again proved to be a tough test, as evidenced by the fact that only seven players broke par.

Dean Burmester leads the LIV Golf Andalucia after the first round with a score of 6 under. Four players are three shots or fewer behind him, including local favorite Sergio Garcia.

2024 LIV Golf Andalucia Day 1 leaderboard

Below is the leaderboard for the LIV Golf Andalucia:

1 Dean Burmester -5
2 Danny Lee -4
3 Eugenio Chacarra -3
T4 Sergio Garcia -2
T4 Anirban Lahiri -2
T6 Louis Oosthuizen -1
T6 Sam Horsfield -1
T8 Lee Westwood E
T8 Richard Bland E
T10 Martin Kaymer +1
T10 Carlos Ortiz +1
T10 Tyrrell Hatton +1
T10 Patrick Reed +1
T10 Cameron Smith +1
T10 Scott Vincent +1
T16 Phil Mickelson +2
T16 Kevin Na +2
T16 Charl Schwartzel +2
T16 Anthony Kim +2
T16 Dustin Johnson +2
T16 Jon Rahm +2
T16 Mito Pereira +2
T16 Matthew Wolff +2
T24 Paul Casey +3
T24 Abraham Ancer +3
T24 Bryson DeChambeau +3
T24 Sebastián Muñoz +3
T24 Joaquín Niemann +3
T29 Graeme McDowell +4
T29 Brooks Koepka +4
T29 Lucas Herbert +4
T29 John Catlin +4
T33 Ian Poulter +5
T33 Pat Perez +5
T33 Marc Leishman +5
T33 Cameron Tringale +5
T33 Talor Gooch +5
T33 Adrian Meronk +5
T39 Jason Kokrak +6
T39 Brendan Steele +6
T39 Jinichiro Kozuma +6
T39 Kieran Vincent +6
T43 Branden Grace +7
T43 Kalle Samooja +7
T43 Andy Ogletree +7
T43 Caleb Surratt +7
T47 Henrik Stenson +8
T47 Bubba Watson +8
T47 Thomas Pieters +8
T50 Peter Uihlein +9
T50 Harold Varner III +9
T52 Matt Jones +10
T52 David Puig +10
54 Hudson Swafford +11

Burmester played the first round of the LIV Golf Andalucia with six birdies and one bogey. The current runner-up, Danny Lee, had one more bogey than the South African.

Sergio Garcia returned to the course where he won the Andalucia Masters three times (2011, 2017, 2018) and carded four birdies and two bogeys. Garcia finished the first day of the LIV Golf Andalucia, tied for fourth with Anirban Lahiri.

The other local hero, Jon Rahm, finished tied for 16th with a score of 2 over. Players who matched Rahm's performance included Bryson DeChambeau, Anthony Kim, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.

The other two Spaniards in the field were Eugenio Lopez Chacarra and David Puig. Chacarra finished solo third with a score of 3 under, while Puig finished in a tie for 52nd place with a score of 10 over.

The team competition is led by All-South Africans team Stingers GC with a score of 4 under. Fireballs GC and Iron Heads GC round out the top 3.

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