BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Miguel Angel Jimenez matched the course record with an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Regions Tradition, the first of the PGA Tour Champions’ five major championships.

Jimenez birdied the first four holes and broke the front-nine record at 6-under 30 at Greystone Golf & Country Club. The Spaniard took the outright lead with a short birdie putt on No. 13 after a rain delay of 1 hour, 17 minutes.

Jimenez tied the course record set by Kenny Perry in the first round in 2016 and matched by Bernhard Langer in the final round a year ago. Jimenez also opened with a 64 in the Chubb Classic before finishing ninth.

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”The only hole I didn’t play well, the 18th, but I missed my driver,” Jimenez said. ”We were rushed looking at the weather coming or not and the gusting wind started to come in and I rushed myself.”

Gene Sauers, Wes Short Jr., Jerry Kelly and Joe Durant were second at 66.

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ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) Home favorite Thomas Detry was involved in a seven-way tie for the lead after the first day of the inaugural Belgian Knockout on Thursday.

Detry carded a 4-under 67 to share the lead with English pair Matthew Baldwin and Ryan Evans, Spaniard Jorge Campillo, Nico Geyger of Chile, Malaysian Gavin Green and Jeff Winther of Denmark.

The event has an unusual format. The opening two rounds are strokeplay before the leading 64 players compete in 9-hole knockout strokeplay matches at the weekend.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Bernhard Langer is trying to do something even Jack Nicklaus couldn’t quite pull off.

Langer enters the Regions Tradition starting Thursday at Greystone Golf & Country Club aiming to become the first to win the PGA Tour Champions major three years in a row since the event began in 1989.

”I love this golf course,” he said. ”It’s very challenging and demanding at times, and then there’s a couple of holes that are gettable. But there’s some shots you really have to pull it off. You’ve got to be totally committed and hit really solid, proper golf shots. Otherwise you end up in the water or even other places. It will show up on your scorecard.

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”So for some reason I’ve done well here the last couple years and hopefully that will continue.”

Nicklaus came awfully close to a three-peat. He twice won the Tradition consecutive years at Desert Mountain in Arizona, but Lee Trevino edged him by one shot in 1992 the first time he tried to make it..

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