A wet Wentworth yielded low scores and a long day in the opening round of the 2025 BMW PGA Championship with Ludvig Åberg and Tom Vaillant sharing the top spot on the leaderboard thanks to matching 64s. Not all were able to finish their first strolls around the par 72 given the stop-and-go nature of the round, but the star grouping of Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Shane Lowry were among those to sneak inside the clubhouse as the sun was setting above.

While Åberg is the name to occupy the attention at the top of the leaderboard at 8 under, the Swede found himself drafting off another European Ryder Cup teammate in Matt Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick finished with a respectable round of 6 under to position himself two behind and made it so the two played an imaginary four-ball in 13 under.

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