John VanDerLaan leads at The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island after an opening-round 10-under 60. The first round was suspended due to darkness at 5:39 p.m. ET and will resume Monday at 7:15 a.m., with 27 players needing to complete Round 1. The second round will begin as scheduled.

Charting the leader

John VanDerLaan (first/10-under)

• Poised to hold first 18-hole lead/co-lead in a Korn Ferry Tour event, with his previous career-high 18-hole position being T2/2022 Live and Work in Maine Open (finished T8), 2024 Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse (finished T24)
• Posts his career-low round on the Korn Ferry Tour with 10-under 60; his previous career-low round on Tour was 63 on two different occasions (most recent: 8-under 63/2021 Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS/final round)
• Cards one eagle and nine birdies against one bogey in the first round; posts the tournament-low for a singular nine in 8-under 28 via an eagle on No. 11 and six consecutive birdies on Nos. 12-17
• Best finish in four previous starts at The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island is T11/2020
• Previously finished No. 63 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, maintaining fully exempt status for the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season with his fourth consecutive top-75 finish on the Points List (No. 53/2020-21, No. 47/2022, No. 42/2023, No. 63/2024)
• Finished T7 at Final Stage of the 2019 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (now PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry) to earn guaranteed starts on the Korn Ferry Tour and secure membership for what became the 2020-21 season
• Played four seasons collegiately at Florida Southern College (2014-18) where he was a four-time All-American and named the 2018 Jack Nicklaus Award winner for NCAA Division II; he earned seven individual wins as a senior, with the crown jewel being the individual national title at the 2018 NCAA Division II Championship

Additional player notes

• Korn Ferry Tour winner Rick Lamb (T2/8-under) matches his career-low round on Tour with an 8-under 62 (previous: 2021 Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS/Round 1; 2024 LECOM Suncoast Classic/Round 2).
• Pierceson Coody (T2/8-under), a Class of 2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduate and one of two players in field ranked inside the top 200 of the Official World Golf Ranking, posts a bogey-free 8-under 62 in his first Korn Ferry Tour start since earning PGA TOUR membership at the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance.
• James Nicholas (T4/7-under) opens in 7-under 63 and is in line to establish a new career-high 18-hole position (previous: T13/2020 Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Hiland Dairy Foods/finished 69th).
• Korn Ferry Tour rookie Jonas Baumgartner (T7/6-under), who finished No. 16 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, opens with 6-under 64 in his first PGA TOUR-sanctioned start; he earned exempt membership until the third reshuffle (i.e. -- first 12 events) for the 2025 season via a T26 finish at Final Stage of 2024 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry.
• PGA TOUR winners Ryan Brehm (T7/6-under) and Kevin Tway (T7/6-under) sit inside the top 10 after carding 6-under 64s in the first round.