All eyes were on Adam Scott and Jason Dufner as both finished with 6-under 66 to top the leaderboad, but three strokes behind them was Filipino and Negrense golfer Juvic Pagunsan who finished with a 69 after the first round of the World Golf Championships Cadillac Championship in Doral, Florida.

Pagunsan’s feat in the opening day of the tournament might have gone unnoticed among the golf’s top brass, but it is something to celebrate among Filipinos as their very own 2011 Asian Order of Merit champ registered a better finish against current No. 1 Rory McIlroy, who had a 73, and former golf’s poster boy Tiger Woods’ 72.

Going into today’s second round, the Murcia born Pagunsan shares the 69 mark with Spain’s Alvaro Quiros, Australian nationals Kyle Stanley, Keegan Bradley, Aaron Baddeley, and Justin Rose.

Reports from the wires said it was a battle all day for McIlroy as he twice “flirted with the water, had a three-putt bogey and wound with a 73.”

The report also said Woods didn’t do better as he began his round with a tap-in eagle on the par-5 first hole then narrowly missed the fairways. He misjudged the line of his chip on the 18th hold and closed with a bogey for a 72.*NAB

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