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,

A rough start to the season had Wyndham Clark digging through past notes, listening to old books — anything to get his mind out of the negative. The mindset reset paid off in the opening round of the Phoenix Open,

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);