Taylor Moore opened with a bogey but quickly recovered with an eagle at the par-5 3rd hole followed by five birdies for a 6-under 64 and a share of the lead at the Texas Children’s Houston Open.
“Hit a lot of greens. After the first hole, just tried to see how many greens I could hit. Got off to a little bit of a jump start there on 3, chipped in for eagle on 3 and birdied 4. Yeah, just got into the round.
“Still think it’s a difficult course. It’s really long, probably the most mid to long irons I’ve had into par-4s this year. It’s in great shape, though. It’s overseeded, as everybody knows. It’s in really good shape. Greens are rolling well. It’s a lot of fun to play”
PGA Tour rookie Wilson Furr made a bogey at the par-3 15th as well as two birdies to make the turn in 34 before three birdies and an eagle at the par-4 5th gave him a share of the lead.
“I’ve been working on my irons for a while,” said Furr. “Haven’t been great the last couple weeks, and then today or this week I really felt like something kind of clicked and I hit my irons great today and really rolled it well. So I was pleased with how I played, for sure.
“[I’ve been working on] hitting them straighter, that was the biggest thing out here, I just found the penalty missing greens short sided was just worse,” he continued. “I’ve really just been working on some technique and just, like I said, just really trying to tighten up the flight and I think we’ve done a good job of it. Today I felt like showed proof of that.”
Tied in third place at 5-under is World number 1 Scottie Scheffler who stayed bogey-free and completed his 28th consecutive sub-par round on Tour, the most on record since 1983. He seeks his third consecutive win in as many starts following the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The PLAYERS Championship. The last player to win three consecutive starts on Tour was Dustin Johnson in 2017.
Davis Riley’s round featured an eagle at the par-5 16th, six birdies, a bogey and a double bogey at the par-4 13th for his share of third place.
PGA Tour rookie lefthander Joe Highsmith completes the all-American top-5 with his own share of third place.
Related: Matteo Manassero in three-way tie for lead
| Pos. | Player | To Par | R1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Wilson Furr | -6 | 64 |
| T1 | Taylor Moore | -6 | 64 |
| T3 | Davis Riley | -5 | 65 |
| T3 | Joe Highsmith | -5 | 65 |
| T3 | Scottie Scheffler | -5 | 65 |
| T6 | Mackenzie Hughes | -4 | 66 |
| T6 | Alejandro Tosti | -4 | 66 |
| T6 | Adam Svensson | -4 | 66 |
| T6 | Aaron Rai | -4 | 66 |
| T6 | Beau Hossler | -4 | 66 |
| T11 | Chris Gotterup | -3 | 67 |
| T11 | Patrick Rodgers | -3 | 67 |
| T11 | Max Greyserman | -3 | 67 |
| T11 | David Skinns | -3 | 67 |
| T11 | Tom Whitney | -3 | 67 |
| T11 | Akshay Bhatia | -3 | 67 |
| T17 | Victor Perez | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Kevin Dougherty | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | J.J. Spaun | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Vincent Norrman | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Matti Schmid | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Davis Thompson | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Roger Sloan | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Ben Taylor | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Mac Meissner | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Andrew Novak | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Greyson Sigg | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Taylor Pendrith | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | S.H. Kim | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Nick Dunlap | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | K.H. Lee | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Peter Malnati | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Cam Davis | -2 | 68 |
| T17 | Garrick Higgo | -2 | 68 |
| T35 | Harrison Endycott | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Adrien Dumont de Chassart | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Sam Ryder | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Alex Noren | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Chad Ramey | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Tony Finau | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Si Woo Kim | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Ryan Palmer | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Sam Bennett | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Pierceson Coody | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Joel Dahmen | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Martin Laird | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Mark Hubbard | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Gary Woodland | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Kevin Kisner | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Chez Reavie | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Josh Teater | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Harry Hall | -1 | 69 |
| T35 | Stephan Jaeger | -1 | 69 |
| T54 | Jorge Campillo | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Rico Hoey | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Callum McNeill | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Nicholas Lindheim | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Ben Silverman | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Hayden Springer | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Tyson Alexander | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Cameron Champ | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Sahith Theegala | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Padraig Harrington | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Wyndham Clark | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Daniel Berger | Par | 70 |
| T54 | J.B. Holmes | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Ryan Moore | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Callum Tarren | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Henrik Norlander | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Scott Gutschewski | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Bud Cauley | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Norman Xiong | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Parker Coody | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Thomas Detry | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Austin Cook | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Matt NeSmith | Par | 70 |
| T54 | Ryan Brehm | Par | 70 |
| T54 | James Hahn | Par | 70 |
| T79 | Chan Kim | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Raul Pereda | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Trace Crowe | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Paul Barjon | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Jhonattan Vegas | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Billy Horschel | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Tom Hoge | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Patton Kizzire | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Joseph Bramlett | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Michael Kim | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Patrick Fishburn | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Jacob Bridgeman | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Ryan McCormick | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Lanto Griffin | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Keith Mitchell | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Doug Ghim | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Luke List | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Stewart Cink | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Nick Hardy | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Dylan Wu | +1 | 71 |
| T79 | Ryan Fox | +1 | 71 |
| T100 | Rhein Gibson | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Erik Barnes | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Nate Lashley | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Jason Day | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Scott Stallings | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Martin Trainer | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Vince Whaley | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Carl Yuan | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Cole Hammer | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Sung Kang | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Ben Griffin | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Justin Lower | +2 | 72 |
| T100 | Aaron Baddeley | +2 | 72 |
| T113 | Emilio Gonzalez | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Kris Ventura | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Zac Blair | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Adam Long | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Kurt Kitayama | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Justin Suh | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Brandon Wu | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Brandt Snedeker | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Sam Stevens | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Carson Young | +3 | 73 |
| T113 | Bronson Burgoon | +3 | 73 |
| T124 | Robert MacIntyre | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Chandler Phillips | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Robby Shelton | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Alex Smalley | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Alexander Björk | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Thorbjørn Olesen | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Kevin Chappell | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Matt Wallace | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Jake Knapp | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Will Zalatoris | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Chesson Hadley | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Taylor Montgomery | +4 | 74 |
| T124 | Richy Werenski | +4 | 74 |
| T137 | Blaine Hale, Jr. | +5 | 75 |
| T137 | Hayden Buckley | +5 | 75 |
| T139 | David Lipsky | +6 | 76 |
| T139 | Jesse Droemer | +6 | 76 |
| T139 | Dawie van der Walt | +6 | 76 |
| T139 | Cody Gribble | +6 | 76 |
| T143 | Rafael Campos | +8 | 78 |
| T143 | Jimmy Walker | +8 | 78 |
