Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship - Day One in Numbers

After an enthralling opening day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the first round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.

<b>67 </b>– The low round of the day, shot by<b>3 </b>players (Matthew Baldwin, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Romain Wattel)

<b>0 </b>– Frenchman Wattel was blemish-free in his opening<b>5</b>under par round

<b>32 </b>– The low<b>9 </b>of the day set on the back by Cabrera-Bello

<b>4 </b>– Shots<b>2014</b>European Ryder Cup Captain Paul McGinley was under par

<b>2 </b>– Shots under par that<b>4</b>of the<b>2012</b>Medinah heroes were on Thursday (Luke Donald, Peter Hanson, Martin Kaymer, Rory McIlroy)

<b>3 </b>– Inches short Paul Casey was from a hole in<b>1 </b>on the<b>15</b>th- it would have been the<b>10</b>th ace in the tournament’s history and Casey’s<b>2</b>nd (his other came in 2011 at the<b>12</b>th)

<b>85 </b>– Cumulative shots under par Kaymer is now in<b>25</b>rounds at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship after his first round<b>70</b>

<b>21 </b>– Of those have been rounds under par

<b>5 </b>– Birdies all day at the par<b>4 9</b>th, ranking the hardest hole on Thursday at an average of<b>4.44</b>

<b>54 </b>– Approximate percentage of the field to birdie the par<b>5 18</b>th in the first round (68 players), ranking the easiest hole at an average of<b>4.51</b>

<b>8 </b>– Nationalities in the top ten following the first round including<b>2 </b>South Africans (George Coetzee, Dawie van der Walt) and<b>2 </b>Scotsmen (Craig Lee, Marc Warren)

<b>391 </b>– Birdies on day one

<b>0 </b>– Eagles during the opening day’s play; there were only<b>5 </b>in total last year

<b>1 – </b>Falcon – the famous clubhouse which towers over the closing holes of each<b>9</b>

<b>51 </b>– Players under par today

<b>15 </b>– The amount of shots between first and last place