AdventHealth Championship opens with ideal weather, low scores at Blue Hills C.C.
Conditions for Thursday’s opening round of the $1 million AdventHealth Championship golf tournament could not have been more idyllic.
And the scores showed it.
With temperatures in the low- to mid-70s, Jeff Overton and Griffin Wood — who both hail from Indiana — blistered Blue Hills Country Club with matching rounds of 8-under 64.
With some golfers still out on the venerable par-72 track as of early Thursday evening, Overton, 40, and Wood, 34, sat atop the leaderboard with a 1-stroke advantage entering Friday’s second round.
Vince Whaley, a 29-year-old Georgia Tech grad, and Alistair Docherty, a 30-year-old Canadian who played at Cal State-Chico, were tied right behind them with matching scores of 7-under.
Some 156 professional golfers are competing in the annual four-day, 72-hole Korn Ferry Tour event in Kansas City. The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental feeder tour for the PGA Tour, and AdventHealth this week re-upped as this event’s title sponsor through 2029.
The AdventHealth Championship is the 10th stop of the Korn Ferry Tour’s 26-event season this year.
This is the 14th year of AdventHealth’s sponsorship and fifth straight time the tourney is taking place at Blue Hills.
Past AdventHealth tourney champions include two-time PGA Tour winners Sepp Straka (who won here in 2018), reigning event champion Grayson Murray (2023) and Cameron Young (2021), who currently ranks No. 16 in the world.
Murray, 30, won last year by overtaking Wilson Furr in Sunday’s final round. It was Murray’s second Korn Ferry Tour win and first since 2016.
Local interest is sprinkled throughout this year’s field. Former K-State standout Robert Streb, for instance, has competed on the PGA Tour and is playing via a sponsor’s exemption. He finished strong Thursday, moving from 1-under to 3-under on the final few holes to sit tied for 28th at 69.
Former Shawnee Mission East and KU Jayhawks standout Chase Hannah, 29, was tied for 57th at 2-under, while Blue Valley North grad Harry Higgs, 32, opened with a 1-under 71 and was tied for 77th.
Tickets for this year’s AdventHealth Championship — $10 for adults per day or $30 for a four-day pass — are available at www.adventhealthchampionship.com/tickets. Admission’s free for those 17 and younger, members of the military and AdventHealth workers with identification.
According to a news release, last year’s AdventHealth Championship “raised nearly $250,000 for the tournament’s benefactor, the AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation, to distribute through the Play It Forward program, which aims to support fundraiser awareness and assist philanthropic needs.”
The event has generated nearly $1 million in funds for local charities in the Kansas City community since 2009, according to AdventHealth Championship officials.
The Korn Ferry Tour will this year award 30 PGA Tour cards to top players based on points earned throughout the lower series’ 2024 season. Korn Ferry Tour alumni currently comprise some 83% of the PGA Tour’s membership.
Korn Ferry Tour AdventHealth Championship
Thursday, in Kansas City; at Blue Hills Country Club
First round, par 72
(-8)
Jeff Overton...32-32—64
Griffin Wood...31-33—64
(-7)
Alistair Docherty...30-35—65
Vince Whaley...32-33—65
(-6)
Cooper Dossey...32-34—66
Ryan Gerard...35-31—66
(-5)
Ryan Blaum...34-33—67
Jorge Fernandez-Valdes...34-33—67
Noah Goodwin...35-32—67
Carter Jenkins...33-34—67
S.Y. Noh...33-34—67
Daniel Summerhays...34-33—67
Joe Weiler...33-34—67
(-4)
Zach Bauchou...34-34—68
Jonathan Byrd...34-34—68
Yi Cao...34-34—68
Tanner Gore...34-34—68
Paul Haley II...32-36—68
Kyle Jones...34-34—68
Rick Lamb...32-36—68
Kaito Onishi...34-34—68
Jeremy Paul...32-36—68
Isaiah Salinda...33-35—68
Jacob Solomon...34-34—68
Ross Steelman...32-36—68
Kevin Velo...31-37—68
Kyle Westmoreland...35-33—68
(-3)
Wil Bateman...35-34—69
Fred Biondi...34-35—69
Brian Campbell...38-31—69
Ricky Castillo...35-34—69
Erik Compton...33-36—69
Patrick Cover...33-36—69
Joshua Creel...37-32—69
Quade Cummins...33-36—69
Cristobal Del Solar...33-36—69
Roberto Diaz...35-34—69
Zecheng Dou...35-34—69
Tommy Gainey...35-34—69
Emilio Gonzalez...34-35—69
Jeffrey Kang...34-35—69
Jamie Lovemark...34-35—69
RJ Manke...33-36—69
Max McGreevy...34-35—69
Mitchell Meissner...35-34—69
William Mouw...34-35—69
Etienne Papineau...36-33—69
Charles Porter...34-35—69
Garett Reband...33-36—69
Seth Reeves...36-33—69
Davis Shore...36-33—69
Robert Streb...33-36—69
Braden Thornberry...35-34—69
John VanDerLaan...37-32—69
Dalton Ward...33-36—69
Patrick Welch...33-36—69
(-2)
Chandler Blanchet...35-35—70
Davis Chatfield...34-36—70
Trevor Cone...34-36—70
MJ Daffue...34-36—70
Chase Hanna...36-34—70
Brandon Harkins...34-36—70
Charlie Hillier...36-34—70
Michael Johnson...33-37—70
Davis Lamb...34-36—70
KK Limbhasut...34-36—70
Matt McCarty...35-35—70
Doc Redman...35-35—70
Tag Ridings...34-36—70
Austin Smotherman...34-36—70
Kevin Stadler...35-35—70
Brian Stuard...35-35—70
Jackson Suber...35-35—70
Bo Van Pelt...37-33—70
T.J. Vogel...35-35—70
Trey Winstead...35-35—70
(-1)
John Augenstein...36-35—71
Bronson Burgoon...34-37—71
Brandon Crick...35-36—71
Taylor Dickson...35-36—71
Hunter Eichhorn...36-35—71
Steven Fisk...35-36—71
Blaine Hale Jr....36-35—71
Harry Higgs...35-36—71
Bo Hoag...34-37—71
Brad Hopfinger...34-37—71
Brendon Jelley...34-37—71
Russell Knox...38-33—71
Satoshi Kodaira...35-36—71
Spencer Levin...35-36—71
Yuxin Lin...36-35—71
Dan McCarthy...36-35—71
Ryan McCormick...35-36—71
Chris Naegel...35-36—71
Augusto Nunez...35-36—71
Rob Oppenheim...36-35—71
Trent Phillips...34-37—71
Kevin Roy...35-36—71
Marcelo Rozo...33-38—71
Sudarshan Yellamaraju...35-36—71
(Even)
Andrew Beckler...38-34—72
Joey Garber...38-34—72
Rhein Gibson...35-37—72
Mark Goetz...34-38—72
Fabian Gomez...35-37—72
Brent Grant...36-36—72
Evan Harmeling...37-35—72
Grant Hirschman...35-37—72
Austin Hitt...37-35—72
Van Holmgren...34-38—72
Andrew Kozan...34-38—72
Tain Lee...38-34—72
Walker Lee...36-36—72
Callum McNeill...35-37—72
Aldrich Potgieter...38-34—72
Sam Saunders...37-35—72
Ollie Schniederjans...38-34—72
Chase Seiffert...36-36—72
Dawie Van Der Walt...37-35—72
Kristoffer Ventura...35-37—72
Danny Walker...35-37—72
(+1)
Sam Bennett...37-36—73
Cody Blick...36-37—73
Dillon Board...40-33—73
Chad Collins...38-35—73
Connor Howe...33-40—73
Philip Knowles...33-40—73
David Kocher...34-39—73
Hank Lebioda...37-36—73
Nelson Lautaro Ledesma...35-38—73
Logan McAllister...37-36—73
Alvaro Ortiz...35-38—73
Kyle Stanley...36-37—73
Brett White...36-37—73
(+2)
Frankie Capan III...36-38—74
Myles Creighton...36-38—74
Bryce Hendrix...37-37—74
John Pak...36-38—74
Christopher Petefish...36-38—74
Paul Peterson...37-37—74
Thomas Rosenmueller...35-39—74
Trevor Werbylo...38-36—74
(+3)
Mason Andersen...38-37—75
Chad Campbell...33-42—75
Brett Drewitt...39-36—75
Cole Hammer...38-37—75
Morgan Hoffmann...38-37—75
Sung Kang...41-34—75
Dimitrios Papadatos...38-37—75
(+4)
Jared Du Toit...39-37—76
Robert Russell...37-39—76
Thomas Walsh...39-37—76
(+5)
Pontus Nyholm...38-39—77
(+6)
Steven Bowditch...38-40—78
Jack Maguire...39-39—78
(+8)
Mason Glinski...41-39—80
This story was originally published May 16, 2024, 5:32 PM.
