Blaine, Minn. (AP) -Scott Piercy fired 6-Under 65 to share the advantage of 3M open with Sungjae IM after the first round of Thursday, just from some of the significant changes he made to find the end of the season.
Tony Finau is two strokes back, with three miss Putt Birdie over his last four holes.
Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Emiliano Grillo and Tom Hoge completed the group with Finau at 67.
On a dry day, windy, 86 degrees in TPC Twin Cities on the suburbs of Minneapolis, the hobby of the course to produce a low score that was raised once again.
Playing in the second group today is the first Tee holiday, Piercy makes Putt worth 151 feet. He birdie four of the first five holes on his back nine.
The 43 -year -old Piercy, who led 3M open in 2019 by two blows after the first round, was one of several players on the field this year looking for the end of the season elevator in the Fedex Cup race. Piercy arrived in Minnesota at the 1138th place, with a piece for playoffs in 125 and two events left after this to meet the requirements. In four of his last six starts, Piercy failed to advance to the weekend.
On the tour since 2009, Piercy has four career wins. Only last week, he replaced his caddy, his swing coach, his driver and his putter - a series of unusual drastic decisions for him.
"Every shot is calculated, and it's time to work hard," Piercy said. "It's not that we don't try to work hard all the time, but there is extra bending, I think. Starting this way is very good."
IM, the 19th in the Fedex and 244th Cup standings in the world, Birdie four of the last six holes. A 24 -year -old player from Korea is bound to the eighth of the Masters this year but is bound for 81 weeks ago in the Open England.
Finau, the only member of the US Ryder Cup team last year and the 17th place in the world, has two best finishs this summer.
The Utah player skipped Birdie Putt 3 feet on 15 and left 4-Footer for Birdie was only short in 16. Then on the 18th, Tee and the appropriate approach, but the 8 feet Birdie Putt was filled and completed 4 inches from the cup. Making two of the three will lead it.
The highest ranked player on the field, Hideki Matsuyama, withdraws. He quoted a sick wrist after shooting 77 to match the worst round this season, Saturday at the Masters on April 9.
Entering the week at the eighth place in the Fedex Cup race and player No. 14 World, Matsuyama landed in three times in the 18th hole that did not know forgiveness and on the edge of the lake and took Quadruple-Bogey 9. Matsuyama, Masters 2021 winner and the fourth -place finisher in the US Open in this summer, tied to Seventh in the first edition of 3M Open in 2019.
Michael Thompson, winner of 2020, was tied to the 53rd after 72. Cameron Champ, who won 2021, was tied to 111 in 75.
Mardy Fish, a former tennis star who played with sponsor liberation, came at the age of 81 years.
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