Sergio Garcia drives Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City after perfect opening round

Sergio Garcia drives Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City after perfect opening round 

Sergio Garcia birdied three of the keep going four gaps on his way to a perfect opening round of 64 and a four-shot lead in the European Tour's Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City on Thursday.

Garcia, straight from triumph at the Andalucia Valderrama Masters a month ago, checked eight birdies as he looks for a third title at Sun City after wins in 2001 and 2003.

It was the Spaniard's most reduced opening round score of the season by two shots and coordinated the greatest first-round lead on the visit in 2018.

"It felt extraordinary. I rolled the ball pleasantly, I made some great putts all over. It was one of those rounds where things happened pleasantly to me," Garcia told columnists.

"I played quite shrewd, despite the fact that I most likely wasn't swinging unfathomably. I monitored it and speculated a portion of the breezes right, which is constantly troublesome here."

The course at the competition named "Africa's Major" is smaller than numerous on the circuit.

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"It's imperative to keep the ball in play however much as could be expected here and it's an exactness kind of fairway," Garcia said.

He leads from South Africa's Charl Schwartzel, Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera and Mikko Korhonen from Finland, who all checked four-under-standard rounds of 68.

A gathering of eight players are at three under-standard, including safeguarding champion Branden Grace and 2010 British Open victor Louis Oosthuizen.

World number six Rory McIlroy could just deal with a level-standard 72 after a twofold intruder at the standard four seventeenth after a wayward drive.

McIlroy presently can't seem to win on the European Tour this season however is still in conflict for the Race to Dubai and to be delegated Europe's best golfer for 2018.

He would need to win in Sun City and one week from now in the United Arab Emirates to stand a shot of accomplishing that.