One year removed from the deluge of rain and chilly temperatures, Scottsdale showed out for the first round of the 2025 WM Phoenix Open and posed pestering problems for the best on the PGA Tour with a local lad,

Justin Thomas (US), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Andrew Putnam (US), Akshay Bhatia (US), Camilo Villegas (Col), Adam Schenk (US) Selected others:-3 R MacIntyre (Sco), D Skinns (Eng); -2 Scheffler (US); -1 M Wallace (Eng);

Dallas’ Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth and Tom Kim are each in contention near the top of the leaderboard heading into Friday’s round.