The first round was suspended due to darkness at 6:05 p.m. and will resume Friday at 7:30 a.m., with seven players needing to complete the first round. Second-round tee times will remain as scheduled.

Cristobal Del Solar leads the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard at 10-under after a bogey-free 61 over Robby Shelton.

Charting the leader (stats entering the week)

Cristobal Del Solar (first/-10)

• Cards bogey-free 10-under 61 for a three-stroke lead over Robby Shelton; marks his second-best career low-round score on Tour (best: 57/R1/2024 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard) and best 18-hole score on the Lagos Course (previous best: 63/R4/2024 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard)
  • Del Solar’s 57 on the Pacos Course at the 2024 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard set the PGA TOUR scoring record for lowest 18-hole score in any PGA TOUR-sanctioned event
• Holds fifth 18-hole lead/co-lead on Tour and first since the 2024 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard where he went on to finish solo-fifth
• Making fourth start of the season and third appearance at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard (T13/2023, fifth/2024)
• Chilean won the 2024 Ascendant presented by Blue in his second season on the Korn Ferry Tour
• Captured a win in Bogotá at the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica's 2022 Volvo Golf Championship at Club El Rincón de Cajicá by one shot over Mitchell Meissner
• Made 26 starts on the PGA TOUR in 2025, highlighted by a top-25 finish at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (T12); finished No. 187 in the 2025 FedExCup Fall
• Turned professional in 2017, playing on PGA TOUR Canada in 2017, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica from 2018-2022 and Korn Ferry Tour from 2023-2024; finished No. 14 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, earning PGA TOUR membership (top 30 from Points List) for the 2025 season
• Played five seasons at Florida State University from 2012-17, winning once and garnering 2017 All-America Third Team recognition, as well as All-Atlantic Coast Conference laurels in 2016 and 2017
• Plays from Jupiter, Florida, but was born in Vina del Mar, Chile, roughly 76 miles from Santiago, where the Korn Ferry Tour’s Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank will be contested next month

Additional player notes

• Four-time Korn Ferry Tour winner Robby Shelton (second/-7), who finished No. 40 in the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List opens with a bogey-free 64, his lowest 18-hole score in 13 career rounds played in the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard.
• Ashton Van Horne (T3/-6), who is competing via medical extension and making his first start on Tour since the 2025 Tulum Championship at PGA Riviera Maya last May, cards a 6-under 65 despite a bogey on the par-4 sixth.
• Norman Xiong (T3/-6), who finished T66 in last week’s Panama Championship, records eight birdies against two bogeys for a first-round 6-under 65; two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner earned two top-25 finishes on the PGA TOUR in 2025 (T12/Puerto Rico Open, T25/ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic) and finished No. 182 in the 2025 FedExCup Rankings.
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Martin Laird (T3/-6), who has four PGA TOUR victories (most recent: 2020 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open), opens with a 6-under 65, his best 18-hole score in nine rounds on Tour this season (previous best: 69/R4/The Panama Championship).
• Hunter Eichhorn (T3/-6), who opened the 2026 season with a T6 finish at The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantic Paradise Island opens with a bogey-free 65.
• Vicente Marzilio (T3/-6), who is making his fifth career start on the Korn Ferry Tour and his tournament debut cards a bogey-free 6-under 65; the Argentine owns two top-10 finishes at tournaments hosted in Latin America on PGA TOUR Americas in 2025 (T4/KIA Open/Ecuador; second/Bupa Championship/Mexico) and he earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the 2026 season via Next 40 and Ties from 2025 PGA TOUR Q-School (finished T34).
• Ian Holt (T38/-2), who became the first player in Korn Ferry Tour history to win two of the season's first three events, as he won the last two events on Tour (The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club and The Panama Championship), opens with a 2-under 69; with a third victory this season, Holt would earn an automatic promotion to the PGA TOUR via the Three-Victory Promotion.
• Kyle Westmoreland (T38/-2), who finished T32 in last week’s Panama Championship and No. 34 in the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, cards a first-round 2-under 69; the defending champion captured his first Korn Ferry Tour win at the 2025 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard after opening with a 70.
• Ricardo Celia (T91/+1 thru 16), who is a conditional member and native of Barranquilla, Colombia, played the first 11 holes 2-under before carding three bogeys to sit at 1-over with two holes remaining in his opening round; the sponsor exemption is playing in his third consecutive Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard (T32/2024, T56/2025).
• Five-time PGA TOUR winner Camilo Villegas (T121/+3), who is making his third appearance at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard, highlighted by a T4 finish in 2020, cards a 3-over 74; the native of Medellin, Colombia, holds Korn Ferry Tour membership this season via a T7 finish at Final Stage of 2025 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry, where he fell one stroke shy of a playoff for a PGA TOUR card.