Wells Fargo Championship R1

Wells Fargo 2022 R1

May 05-08
TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, Potomac, Maryland
$9,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Australian Jason Day produced a 7-under 63 on Thursday to take the lead at the Wells Fargo Championship.

Wells Fargo 2022 R1

“I am encouraged. I think it’s a good step in the right direction. I obviously, I’ve got to give myself a pat on the back because I played some nice golf today, but we’ve got three more days after this and I think the main goal is to try and focus and get yourself in a position where you can win. Yeah, good positive stuff today. Get back, recover and try and get into tomorrow’s round.”

Day, who last won three years and 364 days ago at Quail Hollow, has been working on a swing that will protect his back.

Wells Fargo 2022 R1

“I think about the golf swing in the morning, I think about the golf swing during the day and I think about the golf swing at night,” said Day. “There’s been conversations at 12 at night with Chris [Como, his coach] just because I have an idea in my head and a certain sensation and a feel.

“The thing that’s different between now and when I was No. 1 in the world, even though the technique might not have been as crisp as it is right now, I had all the confidence in the world, especially on the greens. So that’s always the goal.”

Wells Fargo 2022 R1

American Joel Dahmen lies a shot back in second place followed at 5-under by Englishmen Aaron Rai who remained bogey-free and Callum Tarren as well as Frenchman Paul Barjon, also bogey-free, and Americans Matthew Wolff and Denny McCarthy.

Wells Fargo 2022 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Jason Day	-7	63
2	Joel Dahmen	-6	64
T3	Matthew Wolff	-5	65
T3	Denny McCarthy	-5	65
T3	Aaron Rai	-5	65
T3	Callum Tarren	-5	65
T3	Paul Barjon	-5	65
T8	K.H. Lee	-4	66
T8	Nick Watney	-4	66
T8	Adam Svensson	-4	66
T8	Rickie Fowler	-4	66
T8	Stewart Cink	-4	66
T8	Wesley Bryan	-4	66
T8	James Hahn	-4	66
T8	Mackenzie Hughes	-4	66
T8	Dylan Wu	-4	66
T17	Nick Taylor	-3	67
T17	Rory McIlroy	-3	67
T17	Jim Herman	-3	67
T17	Scott Piercy	-3	67
T17	Turk Pettit	-3	67
T17	Rory Sabbatini	-3	67
T17	Austin Cook	-3	67
T17	Peter Malnati	-3	67
T17	Sergio Garcia	-3	67
T17	Max Homa	-3	67
T17	Matt Kuchar	-3	67
T17	Si Woo Kim	-3	67
T17	Cam Davis	-3	67
T17	Matt Wallace	-3	67
T17	Harry Higgs	-3	67
T17	Matthew NeSmith	-3	67
T17	Stephan Jaeger	-3	67
T17	Chase Seiffert	-3	67
T17	Jim Knous	-3	67
T17	Ben Kohles	-3	67
T17	Kurt Kitayama	-3	67
T38	Brendan Steele	-2	68
T38	Anirban Lahiri	-2	68
T38	C.T. Pan	-2	68
T38	Marc Leishman	-2	68
T38	J.T. Poston	-2	68
T38	Matt Fitzpatrick	-2	68
T38	Danny Lee	-2	68
T38	Justin Lower	-2	68
T38	Hank Lebioda	-2	68
T38	Scott Gutschewski	-2	68
T38	Luke List	-2	68
T38	Patrick Reed	-2	68
T38	William McGirt	-2	68
T38	Richy Werenski	-2	68
T38	Jhonattan Vegas	-2	68
T38	Russell Henley	-2	68
T38	Russell Knox	-2	68
T38	Ben Martin	-2	68
T38	Peter Uihlein	-2	68
T38	Cameron Young	-2	68
T38	Drew Nesbitt	-2	68
T38	Austin Smotherman	-2	68
T60	Brandon Hagy	-1	69
T60	Brian Harman	-1	69
T60	Camilo Villegas	-1	69
T60	Chez Reavie	-1	69
T60	Tony Finau	-1	69
T60	Webb Simpson	-1	69
T60	Francesco Molinari	-1	69
T60	Abraham Ancer	-1	69
T60	Corey Conners	-1	69
T60	Robert Garrigus	-1	69
T60	Dawie van der Walt	-1	69
T60	Seth Reeves	-1	69
T60	Hayden Buckley	-1	69
T60	Adam Schenk	-1	69
T60	Taylor Moore	-1	69
T60	Roger Sloan	-1	69
T60	Keith Mitchell	-1	69
T60	Chad Ramey	-1	69
T60	Vaughn Taylor	-1	69
T60	David Lipsky	-1	69
T80	Kevin Chappell	Par	70
T80	Kramer Hickok	Par	70
T80	Henrik Norlander	Par	70
T80	Martin Laird	Par	70
T80	Sepp Straka	Par	70
T80	Tyrrell Hatton	Par	70
T80	Seamus Power	Par	70
T80	Lanto Griffin	Par	70
T80	Keegan Bradley	Par	70
T80	Zach Johnson	Par	70
T80	Charl Schwartzel	Par	70
T80	Kelly Kraft	Par	70
T80	Joseph Bramlett	Par	70
T80	Bryson Nimmer	Par	70
T80	Matthias Schwab	Par	70
T80	Chesson Hadley	Par	70
T80	Trey Mullinax	Par	70
T80	Alex Smalley	Par	70
T80	Gary Woodland	Par	70
T80	Nate Lashley	Par	70
T80	Adam Long	Par	70
T80	Jason Dufner	Par	70
T80	Cameron Percy	Par	70
T80	David Skinns	Par	70
T80	Brandon Matthews	Par	70
T80	Brandon Wu	Par	70
T106	Troy Merritt	+1	71
T106	Jonas Blixt	+1	71
T106	John Huh	+1	71
T106	Doug Ghim	+1	71
T106	Dylan Frittelli	+1	71
T106	Luke Donald	+1	71
T106	Brice Garnett	+1	71
T106	Tommy Gainey	+1	71
T106	Mark Hubbard	+1	71
T106	Andrew Putnam	+1	71
T106	David Lingmerth	+1	71
T106	Andrew Novak	+1	71
T106	Greyson Sigg	+1	71
T106	Michael Thompson	+1	71
T106	Charley Hoffman	+1	71
T106	Sung Kang	+1	71
T106	Michael Gligic	+1	71
T123	Jonathan Byrd	+2	72
T123	Ryan Blaum	+2	72
T123	Ryan Armour	+2	72
T123	Brian Stuard	+2	72
T123	Johnson Wagner	+2	72
T123	Jared Wolfe	+2	72
T123	Brett Drewitt	+2	72
T123	Bo Van Pelt	+2	72
T123	Vince Whaley	+2	72
T123	Tyler Duncan	+2	72
T123	Bo Hoag	+2	72
T134	Matt Jones	+3	73
T134	Satoshi Kodaira	+3	73
T134	Morgan Hoffmann	+3	73
T134	Kevin Tway	+3	73
T134	Bill Haas	+3	73
T134	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	+3	73
T134	Joshua Creel	+3	73
T134	Eugenio Chacarra (a)	+3	73
T142	Aaron Baddeley	+4	74
T142	Branden Grace	+4	74
T142	Lucas Glover	+4	74
T142	Larkin Gross	+4	74
T142	Kevin Streelman	+4	74
T142	Doc Redman	+4	74
T148	Lee Hodges	+5	75
T148	Norman Xiong	+5	75
150	Jacob Bridgeman (a)	+6	76
T151	Max McGreevy	+7	77
T151	Nicholas Thompson	+7	77
T151	Beau Hossler	+7	77
T151	Gregory Odom, Jr. (a)	+7	77
WD	Martin Trainer		76
WD	Curtis Thompson		45