The 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions completed Round 1 on Thursday from Sheshan International in Shanghai, China, with European Tour regular Rikard Karlberg taking the lead with an opening 8-under 64 to pull a shot ahead of Rickie Fowler.
Daniel Berger, defending champion Russell Knox and Hideki Matsuyama, who was second last week in Malaysia, are tied for third at 6 under par.
2016 WGC-HSBC Champions leaderboard: Round 1
| POS | PLAYER | TO PAR | R1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rikard Karlberg | -8 | 64 |
| 2 | Rickie Fowler | -7 | 65 |
| T3 | Daniel Berger | -6 | 66 |
| T3 | Russell Knox | -6 | 66 |
| T3 | Hideki Matsuyama | -6 | 66 |
| T6 | Paul Casey | -5 | 67 |
| T6 | Bill Haas | -5 | 67 |
| T6 | Francesco Molinari | -5 | 67 |
| T9 | Richard Bland | -4 | 68 |
| T9 | Dean Burmester | -4 | 68 |
| T9 | Sergio Garcia | -4 | 68 |
| T9 | Alexander Noren | -4 | 68 |
| T9 | Xinjun Zhang | -4 | 68 |
| T14 | George Coetzee | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Ross Fisher | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Adam Scott | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Henrik Stenson | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Lee Westwood | -3 | 69 |
| T14 | Chris Wood | -3 | 69 |
| T20 | Kevin Chappell | -2 | 70 |
| T20 | Tyrrell Hatton | -2 | 70 |
| T20 | Thongchai Jaidee | -2 | 70 |
| T20 | Jason Kokrak | -2 | 70 |
| T24 | Rafa CabreraBello | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | J.B. Holmes | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Rory McIlroy | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Ryan Moore | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Louis Oosthuizen | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Thomas Pieters | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Justin Thomas | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Bubba Watson | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Bernd Wiesberger | -1 | 71 |
| T24 | Gary Woodland | -1 | 71 |
| T34 | Bradley Dredge | E | 72 |
| T34 | Matthew Fitzpatrick | E | 72 |
| T34 | Emiliano Grillo | E | 72 |
| T34 | Scott Hend | E | 72 |
| T34 | Martin Kaymer | E | 72 |
| T34 | Kevin Kisner | E | 72 |
| T34 | Alexander Levy | E | 72 |
| T34 | Wen-Chong Liang | E | 72 |
| T34 | Joost Luiten | E | 72 |
| T34 | Matthew Millar | E | 72 |
| T34 | Charl Schwartzel | E | 72 |
| T34 | Miguel Tabuena | E | 72 |
| T34 | Hui-Lin Zhang | E | 72 |
| T34 | Jordan Zunic | E | 72 |
| T48 | Wu Ashun | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Roberto Castro | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Branden Grace | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Soren Kjeldsen | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Brooks Koepka | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Matt Kuchar | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Haotong Li | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Sean O'Hair | 1 | 73 |
| T48 | Hideto Tanihara | 1 | 73 |
| T57 | ByeongHun An | 2 | 74 |
| T57 | Gregory Bourdy | 2 | 74 |
| T57 | Dustin Johnson | 2 | 74 |
| T57 | Kyung-Tae Kim | 2 | 74 |
| T57 | Si-Woo Kim | 2 | 74 |
| T57 | Shane Lowry | 2 | 74 |
| T57 | Danny Willett | 2 | 74 |
| T64 | Nathan Holman | 3 | 75 |
| T64 | Andrew Johnston | 3 | 75 |
| T64 | Kevin Na | 3 | 75 |
| T64 | Younghan Song | 3 | 75 |
| T68 | Jacques Blaauw | 4 | 76 |
| T68 | Soomin Lee | 4 | 76 |
| T70 | Zecheng Dou | 5 | 77 |
| T70 | Richard Sterne | 5 | 77 |
| T72 | Marcus Fraser | 6 | 78 |
| T72 | Patrick Reed | 6 | 78 |
| T72 | Jimmy Walker | 6 | 78 |
| T75 | Shih-Chang Chan | 7 | 79 |
| T75 | Scott Piercy | 7 | 79 |
| T75 | Jhonattan Vegas | 7 | 79 |
| 78 | Jeung-Hun Wang | 10 | 82 |
