There was no more impressive score Wednesday in Abu Dhabi than Ian Poulter’s opening 66.
The Englishman endured a 34-hour door-to-door travel adventure as he hightailed it from the Sony Open in Hawaii on Sunday night to Abu Dhabi by Tuesday evening.
Fighting through jet lag, Poulter managed five birdies early before running out of gas and settling for a 6-under start.
Not that he was complaining.
“I thought it was a case of, Let’s go as low as we can as quick as we can and then try and hold on,” Poulter told reporters afterward.