AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Round 1: Ryo Hisatsune Goes Bogey-Free for 62 on a Gift of a Day

Pebble Beach does not usually hand out free lunches in February. On Thursday it set the table, and Ryo Hisatsune ate first.

The 23-year-old from Japan shot a bogey-free 10-under 62 at Pebble Beach Golf Links to take a one-shot lead after the opening round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the first Signature Event of the 2026 PGA TOUR season. Keegan Bradley (63 at Spyglass Hill) and Sam Burns (63 at Pebble Beach) sit at 9 under. Chris Gotterup, Tony Finau and Patrick Rodgers are tied for fourth at 8 under after matching 64s, and a pack of four at 7 under includes Akshay Bhatia, Andrew Novak, Tom Hoge and Nick Taylor.

Ten Birdies, Zero Drama

Hisatsune's card was a highlight reel built on the short game. Five birdies came in the first seven holes, and three more arrived in a row to close the round. Per Field Level Media, the run included a 28-and-a-half-foot birdie at the third, a 39-footer at the fourth and a chip-in at the 16th, and Hisatsune finished with 10 birdies against no bogeys.

The strange part is how it happened. Hisatsune actually lost strokes to the field off the tee and on approach, according to the PGA TOUR, which called it one of the least likely rounds of its kind in PGA TOUR data going back to 2004.

It also is not a fluke of form. Hisatsune got into this elite field through the Aon Swing 5 and arrived off a tie for second at the Farmers Insurance Open and a tie for 10th at the WM Phoenix Open. Hisatsune also said poa annua greens like these feel much easier, which fits a putter this hot.

Bradley Owns Spyglass

The two-course rotation matters on Thursday and Friday, and Spyglass Hill played roughly a shot and a half harder than Pebble Beach on average. That makes Bradley's bogey-free 63 the most impressive number on the board.

The round turned on a three-hole burst in the middle of the front nine. Bradley stuck a 9-iron to a couple of feet at the sixth for birdie, rolled in an 11-footer for eagle at the par-5 seventh, then chipped in from just off the green at the eighth. Five under in three holes on the harder course is a statement.

"It's about as nice of a day as I've ever seen out here," Bradley said.

Burns took the other route to 63, at Pebble. The back nine was a blur: a 7-under 29, with long birdie putts at the 10th and 17th and a pitch-in from just under 30 yards at the 13th. Burns led the field in putting and said as much afterward. "I made a significant amount of putts and feel like I was hitting it pretty nice," Burns said.

Gotterup's Streak Keeps Rolling

The hottest player in golf kept doing hot-player things. Gotterup, fresh off a playoff win over Hideki Matsuyama at the WM Phoenix Open for a second title already this year, birdied the first six holes at Pebble. Per the PGA TOUR, nobody had opened a TOUR event with six straight birdies since Robert Streb in 2021. Add the three birdies that closed out Phoenix and Gotterup's run reached nine in a row across two tournaments and two weeks.

The pace cooled after that, and Gotterup settled for a 64. "I was kind of just coasting along," Gotterup said, which is a funny way to describe a start nobody on TOUR had matched since 2021.

Jordan Spieth produced the shot of the day at Spyglass, holing out from 116 yards for eagle on the way to a bogey-free 66. Nice reset after a missed cut in Phoenix.

Scheffler Leaves Shots Out There

On a day built for scoring, the world No. 1 could not find a gear. Scottie Scheffler shot an even-par 72 at Pebble Beach and sits 10 shots back, in a tie for 62nd.

It went sideways early. A clump of mud on the ball in the fairway at the par-5 second sent the next shot about 30 yards left of the green. Scheffler hit two approach shots inside 10 feet and missed both putts, made nothing longer than 8 feet all day, and bogeyed the 12th. A birdie at the par-5 18th at least dragged the card back to even.

"I feel like typically I'm good at scoring, and today I felt like I didn't score at all," Scheffler said. "Just one of those days."

Scheffler arrived with 17 straight top-10 finishes, and with no 36-hole cut for the pros at this Signature Event, the question is not survival. It is whether there is enough Pebble left to make up 10 shots.

Rory's Bumpy Return

Defending champion Rory McIlroy, making a first PGA TOUR start of 2026, looked like the round of the day for a while. McIlroy reached 5 under around the turn at Spyglass, holed out for an eagle along the way, and then three-putted the third and fifth greens for a pair of double bogeys. The result was a 68, six back.

Collin Morikawa opened with a 3-under 69 at Spyglass, a quiet start seven shots off the pace.

The Friday Swap

The field averaged 68.25 on Thursday, which the PGA TOUR noted was just shy of last year's first-round mark, the lowest single-round average in the event's history. Friday flips the rotation, so Hisatsune, Burns and Gotterup head to Spyglass while Bradley and the Spyglass crowd get their crack at Pebble.

A 62 at Pebble on a calm day is a great score. Backing it up at Spyglass is the real test.

Full scoring is on the official PGA TOUR leaderboard (opens in a new tab), and the TOUR's Round 1 recap (opens in a new tab) has more.

Sources: PGA TOUR (Round 1 recap, Signature Scroll and leaderboard), AP, Field Level Media, ESPN. More golf coverage on Undrafted.

Photo: PGA TOUR.