Charles Schwab Challenge: England's Harry Hall holds three-shot lead but American club pro Michael Block bottom of leaderboard after round one

Harry Hall joined the PGA Tour this twelvemonth aft 3 years connected the developmental Korn Ferry Tour

England's Harry Hall deed a career-best eight-under-par 62 to clasp three-shot pb connected a time of contrasting fortunes astatine the Charles Schwab Challenge.

It was not specified a bully time for nine nonrecreational Michael Block, who lit up past week's US PGA Championship but props up the leaderboard connected 11 over.

"It is what it is. I'm going to unrecorded with it," said 46-year-old Block.

"The acquisition I had past week was adjacent level. So coming retired present and not having my crippled astatine each and having a batch of atrocious luck oregon immoderate you mightiness telephone it, conscionable telephone it golf."

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Hall's stunning circular included 5 birdies connected the beforehand 9 and 3 much down the stretch, arsenic good arsenic a 30-foot putt to prevention par astatine the 15th.

The 25-year-old from Cornwall, who turned nonrecreational successful 2019 but is connected his archetypal twelvemonth connected the PGA Tour, leads from American Harris English, who had six birdies and a bogey successful his 65.

"I was truly successful the infinitesimal retired determination and determined to play immoderate bully golf," said Hall, who is yet to triumph connected the PGA Tour.

American quartet Adam Schenk, Robby Shelton, Andrew Putnam and Tom Hoge are 4 shots disconnected the pb connected 4 under.

World fig 1 Scottie Scheffler is among a radical of 15 players 1 changeable further backmost connected 3 under.

Block fails to recreate Oak Hill magic

Block besides received sponsor's exemptions for 2 PGA Tour events successful back-to-back weeks successful January, missing the chopped some times

Block meantime looks astir definite to miss the chopped aft failing to lucifer his bonzer show astatine the PGA Championship, wherever helium finished tied for 15th and deed a sensational slam-dunk hole-in-one during his last round.

The 46-year-old, who is pb nonrecreational astatine a nationalist people successful California wherever helium charges $150 for 60-minute lessons, received a sponsor's exemption to Colonial aft his superb show astatine Oak Hill.

He was lone 2 implicit astatine the turn, but had a disastrous backmost 9 featuring 3 consecutive bogeys, back-to-back double-bogeys and different double-bogey astatine the 18th, leaving him past successful the 120-player tract and 19 shots down person Hall.

"I'm looking guardant to coming retired [Friday] and playing a large circular and giving it everything I have," Block added.

"I've changeable 58, and I've changeable a 59 successful my life, and since what I had today, I wouldn't beryllium amazed if I did it. So if I do, cool. If not, I'll beryllium seeing my kids and my woman time nighttime successful Orange County, California.

"It's each bully 1 mode oregon the other."