Tony Finau, a winner twice this year, missed the cut last week but came back strong with an opening 5-under 65 to take a share of the lead in the Cadence Bank Houston Open.
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“I knew the golf course — it’s a tough golf course to play. You have to drive it in the fairway and your work’s not done. It’s hard to hit the greens. You know if you miss the green, it’s hard to get up-and-down, so I was just patient with myself.
“I made a couple bombs, I think that kind of opened it up.
“The season that I’ve had this past season was very nice, but I want to go out in a good way and I want to finish the year strong. And I think that’s what I’m looking for this week.”
Fellow Americans Tyson Alexander and Aaron Wise, both bogey-free, share the lead with Finau and Sweden’s Alex Noren.
Alexander chose not to complete his round when play was suspended due to darness and will finish the 18th on Friday morning.
| Pos. | Player | To Par | Thru | R1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Alex Noren | -5 | F | 65 |
| T1 | Aaron Wise | -5 | F | 65 |
| T1 | Tony Finau | -5 | F | 65 |
| T1 | Tyson Alexander | -5 | 17 | - |
| T5 | David Lipsky | -4 | F | 66 |
| T5 | Wyndham Clark | -4 | F | 66 |
| T5 | Max McGreevy | -4 | F | 66 |
| T5 | Mackenzie Hughes | -4 | F | 66 |
| T5 | Keith Mitchell | -4 | F | 66 |
| T5 | Taylor Pendrith | -4 | F | 66 |
| T5 | Zack Fischer | -4 | 17 | - |
| T5 | Ben Taylor | -4 | 16 | - |
| T13 | Justin Rose | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Trey Mullinax | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Denny McCarthy | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Zecheng Dou | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Brent Grant | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Maverick McNealy | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Scott Piercy | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Brendan Steele | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Joel Dahmen | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Carl Yuan | -3 | F | 67 |
| T13 | Ben Griffin | -3 | F | 67 |
| T24 | Austin Cook | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | S.H. Kim | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Will Gordon | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | MJ Daffue | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Erik Barnes | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Travis Vick (a) | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Patrick Rodgers | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Stewart Cink | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Si Woo Kim | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Martin Laird | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Andrew Putnam | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | James Hahn | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Kyle Westmoreland | -2 | F | 68 |
| T24 | Davis Thompson | -2 | 17 | - |
| T38 | Danny Lee | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Jason Day | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Luke List | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Zach Johnson | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Francesco Molinari | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Justin Lower | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Russell Knox | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Michael Gligic | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Harry Hall | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Lee Hodges | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Harris English | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Gary Woodland | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Nick Watney | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Justin Suh | -1 | F | 69 |
| T38 | Walker Lee | -1 | 17 | - |
| T53 | Matt Wallace | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Doc Redman | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Scottie Scheffler | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Hideki Matsuyama | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Tyler Duncan | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Adam Long | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Byeong Hun An | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Stephan Jaeger | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Michael Kim | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | David Lingmerth | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Sam Stevens | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Aaron Rai | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Adam Hadwin | Par | F | 70 |
| T53 | Augusto Núñez | Par | 16 | - |
| T53 | Joseph Bramlett | Par | 15 | - |
| T68 | Ryan Palmer | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Kelly Kraft | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Sahith Theegala | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Seung-Yul Noh | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Taylor Montgomery | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Sebastián Muñoz | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Kevin Streelman | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Robby Shelton | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Trevor Werbylo | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Nico Echavarria | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Kevin Tway | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Dylan Frittelli | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Davis Riley | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Ryan Brehm | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Brandon Wu | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Taylor Moore | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Alex Smalley | +1 | F | 71 |
| T68 | Dean Burmester | +1 | 17 | - |
| T68 | Paul Haley II | +1 | 16 | - |
| T68 | Eric Cole | +1 | 16 | - |
| T88 | Chris Stroud | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Nick Taylor | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Richy Werenski | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Ryan Armour | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Adam Schenk | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Austin Eckroat | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Sean Jacklin | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Scott Harrington | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Zac Blair | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | John Huh | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Russell Henley | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Charley Hoffman | +2 | F | 72 |
| T88 | Lukas Euler | +2 | 16 | - |
| T88 | Ben Kern | +2 | 16 | - |
| T102 | Adam Svensson | +3 | F | 73 |
| T102 | Henrik Norlander | +3 | F | 73 |
| T102 | Callum Tarren | +3 | F | 73 |
| T102 | Chad Ramey | +3 | F | 73 |
| T102 | Kramer Hickok | +3 | F | 73 |
| T102 | Matthias Schwab | +3 | F | 73 |
| T108 | Jimmy Walker | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Jim Herman | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Robert Streb | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Chesson Hadley | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Philip Knowles | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Johannes Veerman | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Matthew NeSmith | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Cameron Champ | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Tano Goya | +4 | F | 74 |
| T108 | Cole Hammer | +4 | F | 74 |
| T118 | Ben Martin | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Danny Willett | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Beau Hossler | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Erik van Rooyen | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Carson Young | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Mark Hubbard | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Jason Dufner | +5 | F | 75 |
| T118 | Kevin Roy | +5 | 17 | - |
| T126 | Anders Albertson | +6 | F | 76 |
| T126 | Brandon Matthews | +6 | F | 76 |
| 128 | Sam Burns | +7 | F | 77 |
| T129 | Peter Malnati | +8 | F | 78 |
| T129 | Garrick Higgo | +8 | F | 78 |
| T129 | Sepp Straka | +8 | F | 78 |
| 132 | Austin Smotherman | +10 | F | 80 |
