Olympics: Austria's Straka leads after men's golf 1st round

Sepp Straka, the 161st ranked player in the world, tied an Olympic record with an 8-under-par 63 and was sitting with a one-shot lead at the end of the first round of the Tokyo Games men's golf tournament on Thursday.Representing Austria, Straka played bogey-free golf and hit 16 of 18 greens to leap to the top of the leaderboard, which featured 40 competitors under par at the end of the day at Kasumigaseki Country Club.Due to dangerous weather conditions, play was halted for approximately two hours from 1:55 p.m.Belgium's Thomas Pieters, Mexico's Carlos Ortiz and Thai Jazz Janewattananond w…READ FULL ARTICLE