Indian golfers Anirban lahiri and SSP Chawrasia ended day 1 at respective +3 over the par and +1 over the par after 16 shots.
lahiri started off with a bogey, not the kind of record he would have wanted. Following that, he hit an even-par at the Par 4 2nd hole. He followed it with another par in the third hole. The golfer made hat-tricks of par. After the end of the round, he was +1 over par.
lahiri then dropped a shot, bogeying the par 3 6th to stand at +2 over par.
Chawrasia on the other hand started on the difficult par 5 1st hole.
Chawrasia then, hit birdie on the 2nd hole and it was India's first birdie in Olympic history. With 9 holes to go, lahiri scored 38 in his outward 9 against a par of 35. Chawrasia then recorded his second birdie on the 5th to move inside the top 10 while lahiri hit bogeys to lay at the bottom of the leaderboard. The golfers will play the 18 holes over the course of four days and the golfer will the lowest aggregate score will walk away with Gold.