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2021 Valero Open (27th of 50 events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season)

San Antonio, Texas April 1-4, 2021 FedExCup Points: 500 (winner) TPC (The Oaks Course) /Yards: 36-36—72/7,494 Purse: $7,700,000 ($1,386,000 winner)

First-Round Notes – Thursday, April 1, 2021

Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 70. Wind ENE 10-20 mph.

First-Round Leaderboard 64 (-8) Sung Kang 66 (-6) 66 (-6) 67 (-5) Seung-Yul Noh 67 (-5) 67 (-5)

Things to Know • Camilo Villegas opens with 64 and holds two-stroke lead, his second 18-hole lead/co-lead of the season (T6/The RSM Classic) • Villegas holed out for birdie from 38 feet, 3 inches on his last hole of the round (No. 9) • Jordan Spieth records a 5-under 67, his lowest score in 19 rounds at the • Spieth has carded under-par scores in the first round of each of his last seven stroke-play events on TOUR • Seung-Yul Noh (T3) entered the week with 18 starts remaining on his Major Medical Extension to earn 297.425 FedExCup points • records a 10 at No. 18, tying the second-highest score on a hole of his PGA TOUR career

First-Round Lead Notes 0 First-round leaders/co-leaders to win the Valero Texas Open since it moved to TPC San Antonio in 2010 (most recent first-round leader to win the event: /2005) 5 First-round leaders/co-leaders to win in 2020-21 (most recent: /)

Camilo Villegas (1st/-8) Category Entering the week Age 39 (January 7, 1982) FedExCup 118 OWGR 314 Starts at Valero Texas Open 5 Wins at Valero Texas Open 0 Top-10s at Valero Texas Open 1 Career PGA TOUR starts 338 Career PGA TOUR wins 4 Career PGA TOUR top-10s 40 PGA TOUR starts in 2020-21 14 PGA TOUR wins in 2020-21 0 PGA TOUR top-10s in 2020-21 2

• Holds a two-stroke lead, his second 18-hole lead/co-lead of the season; first: co-lead, The RSM Classic (finished T6) • 13th career 18-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR; 2-for-12 to date converting to victory (wins: 2008 BMW Championship, 2014 ) • Holed out for birdie from 38 feet, 3 inches on his last hole of the round (No. 9) • Major Medical Extension expired after The Honda Classic, where he finished T8; now eligible to play the remainder of the season out of the 126-150 category (32. 126-150 Prior Season's FedExCup Points List) • Enters the week at No. 118 in the FedExCup standings with two top-10s in 14 starts (T6/The RSM Classic, T8/The Honda Classic) • Four-time PGA TOUR winner: 2008 BMW Championship, 2008 , 2010 The Honda Classic, 2014 Wyndham Championship.

Jordan Spieth (T4/-5) • 5-under 67; lowest score in 19 career rounds at the event (previous: 68, three times; most recent: R2/2019) • Has opened seven consecutive stroke-play starts on TOUR with under-par first-round scores, his longest streak since he had eight straight between the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons Last seven R1 scores on the PGA TOUR Tournament R1 score Finish 2021 Valero Texas Open 67 (-5) TBD 2021 70 (-2) T48 2021 Invitational 70 (-2) T4 2021 The Genesis Invitational 68 (-3) T15 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 65 (-7) T3 2021 Waste Management 67 (-4) T4 2021 69 (-3) MC

• Made seven birdies, his 74th round on TOUR with seven or more birdies since the start of the 2012 season (most on the PGA TOUR in that span) Most rounds with seven or more birdies on the PGA TOUR since start of 2012 season Player Rounds Jordan Spieth 74 71 Rory McIlroy 67 67

• Ninth career PGA TOUR start with a score of 4-under or better on his first nine holes of the first round; two wins in the previous eight instances Results after opening-nine score of 4-under or better on the PGA TOUR Tournament Opening nine score Finish 2021 Valero Texas Open -4 TBD 2020 -4 T54 2019 the presented by Nationwide -4 T7 2018 Travelers Championship -4 T42 2017 BMW Championship -4 T7 2017 Travelers Championship -4 Won 2016 Vivint Open -4 T13 2015 -5 T4 2015 -4 Won

• Making sixth start in the event and has two prior top-10 finishes (10th/2014, 2nd/2015) • Four top-10 finishes in last six starts on TOUR: T4/Waste Management Phoenix Open, T3/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro- Am, T4/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, T9/WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (eliminated in Round of 16)

Additional Player Notes • Sung Kang (T2/-6) earned his lone PGA TOUR victory in the state of Texas (2019 AT&T in Dallas) • Cameron Tringale (T2/-6) leads the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (5.126); making 11th start at the event and has two prior top-10s (T5/2011, T8/2012) • Seung-Yul Noh (T4/-5) entered the week with 18 starts remaining on his Major Medical Extension to earn 297.425 FedExCup points; Noh took a break from the TOUR from the fall of 2017 until January 2020 for his mandatory two- year military commitment, required of all males in South Korea between the ages of 18 and 35 • Hideki Matsuyama (T4/-5) is making his tournament debut • In his first round since a runner-up at last week’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Scottie Scheffler (T7) records a 4-under 68; Scheffler has made one prior start at the event, finishing T20 on a sponsor exemption in 2019 • Phil Mickelson (T139/+7) records a 10 at No. 18, tying the second-highest score on a hole of his PGA TOUR career Highest score on one hole in Phil Mickelson’s PGA TOUR career Score Tournament Rd. Hole 11 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am R3 14 10 2021 Valero Texas Open R1 18 10 2018 U.S. Open R3 13 10 2000 Arnold Palmer Invitational R4 6

Course Statistics Toughest Hole Easiest Hole R1: Par-4 1st (4.444) Par-5 14th (4.549)

Scoring Averages Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative R1: 36.847 36.521 73.368 -

Bogey-free rounds R1 (1): (71)