MIAMI: Despite a double bogey on his closing hole, Patrick Reed shot a 5-under par 67 and grabbed the first-round lead at LIV Golf Miami on Friday at Trump National Doral.

Reed began his round on the 10th hole and put seven birdies on his card, reaching 7 under with a tap-in at the par-5 eighth. But at the par-3 ninth, he missed the green wide left and compounded the mistake by putting his second shot into a bunker.

Reed came back to the pack a bit, but he still held a two-shot lead over Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson (3-under 69).

鈥淚 mean, the first 17 were great,鈥� Reed said. 鈥淣o, as a whole I played solid. I hit the ball pretty well off the tee, hit some quality iron shots and made some putts, and I think that鈥檚 what you have to do around this place.

.鈥�.. Yeah, for the back tee with this kind of wind direction here on 9, I don鈥檛 know what to do. I don鈥檛 have a club for it that I feel like I can hit a straight shot, and it鈥檚 hard to start it over the water and get it turning back. It was just an unfortunate finish, but at the end of the day, it鈥檚 still a solid round of golf.鈥�

In LIV Golf鈥檚 first US event of 2025, it was fitting that the top four players are all past major champions, three of them with at least one green jacket to their name with the Masters a week away.

Reed won the Masters in 2018, Mickelson has captured three green jackets and Dustin Johnson won the 2020 edition that was delayed to November.

鈥淥bviously I was playing really good at the end of 2020,鈥� Johnson said Friday. 鈥淏ut the game I feel like it鈥檚 getting pretty close to that. Obviously it鈥檚 a really fine line to being that good or just a little bit off, but yeah, I鈥檝e got a lot of confidence in my game right now.鈥�

Johnson had a three-birdie run at Nos. 14-16 late in his round to get to 3 under, while DeChambeau was steady with four birdies and just one bogey.

DeChambeau鈥檚 team, Crushers GC, also holds a narrow two-shot lead in the team competition through one round. The four-man team of DeChambeau, Charles Howell III, Englishman Paul Casey and India鈥檚 Anirban Lahiri combined to go 2 under par, with Johnson鈥檚 4Aces GC sitting second at even par.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a reason we won here (at the LIV Team Championship) in 2023,鈥� DeChambeau said. 鈥淭hey like this golf course. They like a tough, challenging golf course where you can strategically play and let everybody kind of mess up on their own, and we just plot along and make a couple birdies where we can and move along when it鈥檚 a really brutal hole.鈥�