Tom Hoge opened with a flawless, 8-under 63 featuring a pair of eagles to take a one shot lead in the Shriners Children’s Open.
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“A little bit unexpected because I had a few weeks off and took a little time away from golf, so I didn’t know where things would stand coming out today.
“I made a nice putt on 6, I don’t know what it was, 30, 40 feet, and then holed the wedge on 7. That really jump started things.
“It was an interesting day. I feel like I missed some very makable birdie putts, but I holed some real nice long ones for eagle on 16 and some other long ones.
“Certainly happy with the score, but I’ve got to make a lot of birdies the next few days.”
Fellow American Maverick McNealy carded a bogey-free 64 for a share of second place alongside South Korean Si Woo Kim.
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Defending champion Sungjae Im of of South Korea shot a bogey-free 65 for a share of fourth place alongside countryman S.H. Kim as well as Americans Sam Ryder, Keith Mitchell, Will Gordon and Tyler Duncan and Belgian Thomas Detry.
Play was suspended due to darkness with just a few players left on the course.
| Pos. | Player | Thru | To Par | R1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Hoge | F | -8 | 63 |
| T2 | Si Woo Kim | F | -7 | 64 |
| T2 | Maverick McNealy | F | -7 | 64 |
| T4 | Tom Kim | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | Sam Ryder | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | Keith Mitchell | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | Will Gordon | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | Thomas Detry | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | Sungjae Im | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | Tyler Duncan | F | -6 | 65 |
| T4 | S.H. Kim | F | -6 | 65 |
| T12 | Martin Laird | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Jason Day | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | J.J. Spaun | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Davis Thompson | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Patrick Rodgers | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Stephan Jaeger | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Kevin Streelman | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Joel Dahmen | F | -5 | 66 |
| T12 | Harry Hall | F | -5 | 66 |
| T21 | Mito Pereira | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Adam Hadwin | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Lee Hodges | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Lucas Herbert | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Max Homa | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Adam Svensson | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Nick Hardy | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Chesson Hadley | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Michael Gligic | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Harrison Endycott | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Patton Kizzire | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Cam Davis | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Patrick Cantlay | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | J.T. Poston | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Chad Ramey | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Vincent Norrman | F | -4 | 67 |
| T21 | Eric Cole | 17 | -4 | - |
| T38 | Andrew Putnam | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Ryan Moore | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Tano Goya | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Michael Thompson | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Gary Woodland | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Austin Smotherman | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Ben Griffin | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Carl Yuan | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Robby Shelton | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Chris Gotterup | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Greyson Sigg | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Matthew NeSmith | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Hayden Buckley | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Alex Noren | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Doug Ghim | F | -3 | 68 |
| T38 | Trevor Werbylo | F | -3 | 68 |
| T55 | Taylor Moore | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Matt Wallace | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Russell Knox | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Chris Kirk | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Austin Cook | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Brendon Todd | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Seamus Power | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Wyndham Clark | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Ryan Palmer | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Aaron Rai | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Callum Tarren | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | David Lipsky | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Kevin Tway | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Adam Schenk | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Byeong Hun An | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Beau Hossler | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Stewart Cink | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Jim Herman | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Harris English | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Aaron Wise | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Mark Hubbard | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Justin Suh | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Nicholas Lindheim | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Kevin Yu | F | -2 | 69 |
| T55 | Carson Young | F | -2 | 69 |
| T80 | Kurt Kitayama | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Rickie Fowler | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Cameron Champ | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Ben Martin | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Brian Harman | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Justin Lower | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Brandon Matthews | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Max McGreevy | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Vince Whaley | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | James Hahn | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Richy Werenski | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Kevin Roy | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Kramer Hickok | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | David Lingmerth | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Taylor Montgomery | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Erik Barnes | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Xuewen Luo | F | -1 | 70 |
| T80 | Philip Knowles | 17 | -1 | - |
| T98 | John Huh | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Danny Lee | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Taylor Pendrith | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Chez Reavie | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Nate Lashley | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Austin Eckroat | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Spencer Levin | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Denny McCarthy | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Jason Dufner | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Charley Hoffman | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Emiliano Grillo | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Matthias Schwab | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Scott Piercy | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Paul Haley II | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Brent Grant | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Dean Burmester | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Augusto Núñez | F | Par | 71 |
| T98 | Patrick Welch (a) | F | Par | 71 |
| T116 | Ryan Armour | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Jimmy Walker | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Andrew Landry | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Brandon Wu | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | K.H. Lee | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Garrick Higgo | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Dylan Frittelli | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Tyson Alexander | F | +1 | 72 |
| T116 | Scott Harrington | 17 | +1 | - |
| T125 | Henrik Norlander | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Zac Blair | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | MJ Daffue | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Zecheng Dou | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Ben Taylor | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Joseph Bramlett | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Derek Deminsky | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Robert Streb | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Nick Taylor | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Jesse Mueller | F | +2 | 73 |
| T125 | Cole Hammer | F | +2 | 73 |
| T136 | Troy Merritt | F | +3 | 74 |
| T136 | Rory Sabbatini | F | +3 | 74 |
| T136 | Kyle Stanley | F | +3 | 74 |
| T139 | Ryan Brehm | F | +4 | 75 |
| T139 | Nick Watney | F | +4 | 75 |
| T139 | Michael Kim | F | +4 | 75 |
| 142 | Quinn Riley | F | +5 | 76 |
| T143 | Ryan Ruffels | F | +6 | 77 |
| T143 | Jared Sawada | F | +6 | 77 |
