MEXICO CITY – Playing in his first World Golf Championship, his first PGA Tour event in fact, Chris Paisley impressed in his debut, making just a single bogey in his Thursday 65 at the WGC-Mexico Championship to grab a share of second place.
If American audiences aren’t fully briefed on the Englishman, consider that up until this year he wasn’t exactly a household name in Europe. Paisley ranked 289th in the world to start the year but quickly began making a name for himself with a victory at the BMW SA Open in January.
He followed that with fifth-place finishes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on the European circuit and now trails Louis Oosthuizen by a shot against a world-class field in Mexico.