If you’re not shooting a low score at the Wyndham Championship, you won’t be around for the weekend.
Play got underway Thursday at birdie-friendly Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro and it was like they were giving birdies away.
By day’s end, 67 players shot three-under par (67) or better. Average score for the field was two-under par 68.
Tied at the top were two South Koreans — Ben An and Sungjae Im — marking the first time in PGA Tour history where co-leaders last names totaled four letters. Both shot career rounds — eight-under par 62s.
Jordan Spieth, who needs FedEx points and a lot of them, had a chance to join them at the top but he parked his final tee shot of the day at the 18th so far right it went out-of-bounds. His fourth ended up 18 feet from the cup on the fringe and he holed the putt for bogey. Had his first drive been in the same spot, he would have made birdie for 62. Instead, he signed for 64 and at six-under, was tied with defending champion Brandt Snedeker and hometown guy Webb Simpson.
Four players were a shot back. Rory Sabbatini, Mackenzie Hughes, Johnson Wagner and Pat Rodgers shot 63s.
This is the final event of the regular season with the “bubble” players trying to play their way into the top 125 and the first event of the playoffs next week — The Northern Trust.
Alex Noren sits on the 125th spot followed by Austin Cook (126), Richie Werenski (127), Martin Trainer (128), Patton Kizzire (129) and Peter Uihlein (130).
