By Samuel Blatchford

Rocester, England – Jon Rahm has the outright lead heading into round 2 thanks to a bogey-free 8-under 63.

Rahm is heating up

Rahm has a two-stroke lead over Abraham Ancer and Andy Ogletree after the first round at LIV Golf UK by JCB. Meanwhile, his Legion XIII is atop the team leaderboard by one stroke over Smash GC, HyFlyers GC and Fireballs GC.

Rahm had good things to say about his round on Friday.

“Nothing much to say obviously but good things,” said Rahm, who entered the week off a tie for seventh at The Open Championship, his best major result of the year. “Played really good golf all day. With days like this, it almost feels effortless.”