{"id":38326,"date":"2026-01-22T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/schaefflers-one-shot-lead-on-the-return-trip-at-american-express\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:45:57","slug":"schaefflers-one-shot-lead-on-the-return-trip-at-american-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/schaefflers-one-shot-lead-on-the-return-trip-at-american-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Schaeffler&#8217;s one-shot lead on the return trip at American Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>American Express Round 1 Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>-10<\/strong> M Lee (Australia), P Coody (USA). <strong>-9<\/strong> V. Whaley (USA), S. Scheffler (USA), S. Kim (Cole), R. McIntyre (Scotland), J. Day (Australia). <strong>-8 <\/strong>A. Novak (USA), S. Stevens (USA), B. Horschel (USA)<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other selections: -7 <\/strong>H English (USA), A Scott (Australia).<strong> -6 <\/strong>M Wallace (UK), W Clark (USA);<strong> -5 <\/strong>S Power (Ireland), J Parry (UK)<\/p>\n<p>complete leaderboard<\/p>\n<p><strong>World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, making his first PGA Tour appearance this season, shot a 9-under 63 in the first round of the American Express in California.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has not played this year and is yet to win the American Express tournament, which carries a prize money of 1.236 million pounds ($1.656 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler is one spot behind the lead in La Quinta, which is jointly held by Australia&#8217;s Min Woo Lee and America&#8217;s Pierceson Coody.<\/p>\n<p>He is tied with a number of players including Scotland&#8217;s Robert McIntyre and former PGA Champion Jason Day at 9 under par.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Unusually, field play spanned three different courses before Saturday&#8217;s cut.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler birdied five of the first six holes, and Coody shot a 29 on the back nine for consecutive birdies.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express Round 1 Leaderboard -10 M Lee (Australia), P Coody (USA). -9 V. Whaley (USA), S. Scheffler (USA), S. Kim (Cole), R. McIntyre (Scotland), J. Day (Australia). -8 A. Novak (USA), S. Stevens (USA), B. Horschel (USA) advertisement Other selections: -7 H English (USA), A Scott (Australia). -6 M Wallace (UK), W Clark (USA); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-38326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}