After an entertaining Thursday at Ballyliffin Golf Club, europeantour.com takes a statistical look back at the best of the numbers from round one at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.
10 - Number of Irishmen in the field this week with the best round of the day coming from Major Winner Pádraig Harrington.
67 - Ryan Fox's first round score gives the New Zealander a one-shot lead after Day One in Ireland.
0 - 18-hole leads before on the European Tour for the New Zealander. He has had five worldwide on other Tours, going on to win once at Le Vaudreuil on the Challenge Tour in 2015.
9 - Only Alex Levy, Paul Dunne, and Andy Sullivan (10 for 11) have made more Rolex Series cuts than Ryan Fox (9 for 11). Avoiding a reversal of fortunes on Friday would give him 10 for 12.
5 - Fox's all round game was on point on Thursday, ranking third in Strokes Gained Driving (+2.3 SG), fourth in Stroke Gained Around the Green (+1.9 SG), fifth in driving distance (322 yards) and third in scrambling (5/6). His success also came despite hitting only five of 15 fairways (tied 44th)...
46 - Total field percentage of fairways hit in round one - the worst for any event so far in the 2018 season. Shinnecock was the previous worst with 48 per cent.
+7.5 RoryMcIlroy's Stroke's Gained tee to green on round one was the fifth best of the season.
0 - 18-hole leads before on the European Tour for the New Zealander. He has had five worldwide on other Tours, going on to win once at Le Vaudreuil on the Challenge Tour in 2015.
9 - Only Alex Levy, Paul Dunne, and Andy Sullivan (10 for 11) have made more Rolex Series cuts than Ryan Fox (9 for 11). Avoiding a reversal of fortunes on Friday would give him 10 for 12.
5 - Fox's all round game was on point on Thursday, ranking third in Strokes Gained Driving (+2.3 SG), fourth in Stroke Gained Around the Green (+1.9 SG), fifth in driving distance (322 yards) and third in scrambling (5/6). His success also came despite hitting only five of 15 fairways (tied 44th)...
46 - Total field percentage of fairways hit in round one - the worst for any event so far in the 2018 season. Shinnecock was the previous worst with 48 per cent.
+7.5 RoryMcIlroy's Stroke's Gained tee to green on round one was the fifth best of the season.
2 - Conversely, just two players made less strokes gained putting than McIlroy - Fitzpatrick and Oriol.
0 - Only two players had bogey-free rounds, Ashley Chesters and Lee Westwood.
Rory gained +7.5 strokes tee to green today, the 5th highest this season. (7,882 rounds) pic.twitter.com/5YEzAygHDv
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