GREENSBORO, N.C. – The go-low parade Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club was led by Harold Varner III, Tom Hoge and Roger Sloan as each shot an 8-under-par 62 to share the first-round lead at the Wyndham Championship, the PGA Tour’s final regular-season event before the FedEx Cup playoffs begin.
Harris English was close behind them, alone in fourth with a 64 that had a him a stroke ahead of a crowd tied for fifth. The Baylor School graduate, coming off a top-20 finish Sunday at the PGA Championship, opened his round with a trio of birdies and made four more on the back nine to offset his lone bogey on the par-3 12th hole, where he missed a seven-foot putt for par.
All three Baylor graduates on the PGA Tour are in the field, and Luke List was tied for 25th at 3 under with three holes to play when the round was suspended due to bad weather – 33 golfers were still on the course at the time – with Keith Mitchell (71) tied for 107th.
Also, at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Albertsons Boise Open, former Baylor and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standout Stephan Jaeger opened with a 6-under 65 that included an eagle and had him tied for fourth, three shots behind first-round leader Tommy Gainey.
Varner had an eight-birdie, no-bogey round to match his career best on the PGA Tour. Hoge and Sloan played together later in the round, with Hoge matching his career low in a PGA Tour career that began in 2015 and Sloan’s score his personal best.