PGA Tour rookie Pierceson Coody posted a bogey-free, 11-under 61, his low round on Tour, in his 74th official round to take his first lead by three shots at the ISCO Championship.
“I’ve been putting really nice all season. It’s kind of a core set if you keep it in play, keep it in front of you, you have a lot of wedges, you end up with a lot of looks for birdie and it’s just one of those days that I saw a ton of putts go in.
“I’m trying to run my own race. I didn’t start the season the way I wanted to, it was really slow. I’ve had some tournaments where I’ve kind of flashed a little bit. I’m just trying to keep improving my form. I know we still have, including the fall, 10 events or so, so I’m just trying to run my own race and see where I end up at the end of the year.”
Coody leads the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (4.230); T1 in Scrambling (6 of 6).
Fellow rookie Rico Hoey from the Philippies carded a bogey-free 64 featuring an eagle at the par-5 8th for a share of second place at 8-under alongside American Hayden Springer who led after the first round at last week’s John Deere Classic after carding a 59.
“It was a great day,” said Hoey. I” knew the scores were going to be low today
so I wanted to go out and start firing and that’s what I did so I’m happy to do that.
“The weather was really nice. The wind wasn’t too crazy, it was swirling a little bit but it was pretty calm out there. Greens were soft enough to where you can go attack and
yeah, conditions were really good. So it was one of those days where you had to take
advantage and that’s what I did.”
After a missed cut in his final start on a Medical Extension last week, America Lanto Griffin tied his lowest score this season with a 65 for a share of fourth place at 7-under with England’s Andy Sullivan and Andrew Wilson, Americans Justin Suh and Ryan McCormick, Italian’s Andrea Pavan and Francesco Laporta and Spain’s Ángel Hidalgo Portillo.
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| Pos. | Player | To Par | R1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pierceson Coody | -11 | 61 |
| T2 | Rico Hoey | -8 | 64 |
| T2 | Hayden Springer | -8 | 64 |
| T4 | Lanto Griffin | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Andy Sullivan | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Justin Suh | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Andrea Pavan | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Alexander Knappe | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Andrew Wilson | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Francesco Laporta | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Angel Hidalgo Portillo | -7 | 65 |
| T4 | Ryan McCormick | -7 | 65 |
| T13 | Harry Hall | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Hayden Buckley | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Cameron Champ | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Tom Vaillant | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Fabrizio Zanotti | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Jacques Kruyswijk | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Patton Kizzire | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Johannes Veerman | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Max Rottluff | -6 | 66 |
| T13 | Patrick Fishburn | -6 | 66 |
| T23 | Matthis Besard | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Troy Merritt | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Chad Ramey | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Brandon Wu | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | S.H. Kim | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Henrik Norlander | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Matt NeSmith | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Roger Sloan | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Thomas Aiken | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Austin Smotherman | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Scott Gutschewski | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Ricardo Gouveia | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Dylan Wu | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Alex Smalley | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Garrick Higgo | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Russell Knox | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Kevin Tway | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Espen Kofstad | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Ben Silverman | -5 | 67 |
| T23 | Neal Shipley | -5 | 67 |
| T43 | Ben Taylor | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Lukas Nemecz | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Adam Long | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | William McGirt | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Chez Reavie | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Adrien Saddier | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Kevin Chappell | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Lorenzo Scalise | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Bill Haas | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Paul Barjon | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Joel Dahmen | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Brandt Snedeker | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Callum Tarren | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Jayden Schaper | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | James Hahn | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Trace Crowe | -4 | 68 |
| T43 | Andrew Johnston | -4 | 68 |
| T60 | Tyson Alexander | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Aaron Baddeley | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | S.Y. Noh | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | J.J. Spaun | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Rafa Cabrera Bello | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | David Skinns | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Joseph Bramlett | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Sam Bairstow | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Spencer Cross | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Zecheng Dou | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Mac Meissner | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Chan Kim | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Filippo Celli | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Alex Goff | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | David Lipsky | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Cody Gribble | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Nick Hardy | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Sam Ryder | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Jim Herman | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Josh Teater | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Matthias Schwab | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Manuel Elvira | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | MJ Daffue | -3 | 69 |
| T60 | Jacob Bridgeman | -3 | 69 |
| T84 | Sebastian Friedrichsen | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Kevin Kisner | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Daniel Berger | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Marcel Schneider | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Stephen Gallacher | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Marcus Kinhult | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Zac Blair | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Haydn Barron | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Stephen Stallings Jr. | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | David Bradshaw | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Joe Highsmith | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Blaine Hale, Jr. | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Jason Dufner | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Jonathan Byrd | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Martin Trainer | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Ryan Moore | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Tyler Duncan | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Robby Shelton | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Scott Piercy | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Matt Sharpstene | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | David Micheluzzi | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Luke Clanton(a) | -2 | 70 |
| T84 | Kevin Dougherty | -2 | 70 |
| T107 | Ivan Cantero Gutierrez | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | James Morrison | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Marco Penge | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | John Marshall Butler | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Gunner Wiebe | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Chesson Hadley | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | David Ravetto | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Jeong Weon Ko | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Michael Kim | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Chase Hanna | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Casey Jarvis | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Edoardo Molinari | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Carson Young | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Adrien Dumont de Chassart | -1 | 71 |
| T107 | Cooper Musselman | -1 | 71 |
| T122 | Carl Yuan | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Kelly Kraft | Par | 72 |
| T122 | James Nicholas | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Wesley Bryan | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Nick Watney | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Raul Pereda | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Tom Whitney | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Chen Guxin | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Paul Waring | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Kyle Reifers | Par | 72 |
| T122 | Wilson Furr | Par | 72 |
| T133 | Vince Whaley | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Renato Paratore | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Camilo Villegas | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Daan Huizing | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Alejandro Tosti | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Michael Thorbjornsen | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Kevin Streelman | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Ryan Brehm | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Ryan Palmer | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Parker Coody | +1 | 73 |
| T133 | Rafael Campos | +1 | 73 |
| T144 | Greyson Sigg | +2 | 74 |
| T144 | Will Gordon | +2 | 74 |
| T144 | Tommy Gainey | +2 | 74 |
| T144 | Sung Kang | +2 | 74 |
| T144 | Austin Cook | +2 | 74 |
| T144 | Sam Jones | +2 | 74 |
| T144 | Joel Girrbach | +2 | 74 |
| T151 | Clément Sordet | +3 | 75 |
| T151 | Erik Barnes | +3 | 75 |
| T151 | Harrison Endycott | +3 | 75 |
| T151 | Daniel Iceman | +3 | 75 |
| 155 | Braden Shattuck | +5 | 77 |
| 156 | Sean O'Hair | +6 | 78 |
