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Henrik Norlander and Korn Ferry Tour grad Matt McCarty each played bogey-free for a 9-under 62 to share the lead Thursday in the Black Desert Championship as the PGA Tour returned to Utah for the first time in 61 years.Black Desert Resort had a gorgeous day to make its debut with a Tom Weiskopf design cut through an ancient field of black lava and surrounded by the red rock mountains some 30 miles from Zion National Park.Norlander couldn't have asked for much more.
The fairways are generous, though the penalty for missing them is severe — often the black lava rock, not 4-inch rough.'Hitting fairways out here is very important because if not I think you're kind of re-teeing, so that was helpful,' said McCarty, who essentially missed only one fairway — two others were on the short par 4s — and that was in a bunker.Black Desert is new to everyone. It might help that McCarty grew up playing desert golf in the Phoenix area.
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