The Cal grad shot 7 under over the final 14 holes; Max Homa also in the hunt after a 68.
Collin Morikawa played 7 under par over the final 14 holes to finish the opening round of the PGA Championship with a 5-under 66 and tied for fifh place at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday.
World No. 3 Xander Schauffele, coming off a runner-up performance last week at the Wells Fargo Championship, continued his excellent play and leads the field by three strokes after a 9-under 62. Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top ranked player who is back in action for the first time since his wife gave birth to their first child, made an eagle-2 with a 167-yard nine iron shot on his first hole. He wound up shooting 4-under 67 for a share of 12th place.Morikawa, who tied for third place with Homa at last month’s Masters, won the 2020 PGA title at Harding Park in San Francisco, barely a year after turning pro.
Homa, ranked No. 9, made four birdies on his back nine, including three in a row on Nos. 3, 4 and 5 to close out a solid round. All told, the 33-year-old had seven birdies and four bogeys to wind up in a tie for 17th with 12 others, including Viktor Hovland and Bryson DeChambeau.
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