Tour Championship Round 1: All You Need To Know

Scotty Sheffer shot six under 65 at East Lake to open up a seven-stroke lead after the first round he's the first player to hold a lead of seven strokes or more after 18 holes of a Tour event on record since 1983 he has won six times this season but interestingly it is sheffer's first lead after the first round since the 2022 TOUR Championship but for the 29 players chasing him there's still hope sheffler is zero for three to date with either the 18-hole lead or or Co lead sheffer's closest Challenger Xander Shia filis shot one under 70 and broke par at East Lake extending his streak of 29 consecutive rounds at par or better but he struggled off the T especially on the back nine he is currently tied for second and seven strokes back he'll play in the second to last group on Friday meanwhile Colin morawa reeled off six consecutive birdies starting at 10 tying the longest birdie streak of his career and setting the longest birdie streak in TOUR Championship history and shot 66 to improve to nine under he is tied for the second spot on the overall FedEx Cup leaderboard alongside Shaila East Lake presumably was made tougher but not on Thursday birdies were made in bunches including by sahi thigala who stormed home with five circles on the card in his final six holes to shoot 67 Adam Scott who finished second last week to advance to the the FedEx Cup finale picked up where he left off and recorded his eighth consecutive first round under par shooting five under 66 Justin Thomas who started the day 10 back carded seven birdies including at his final two holes to also shoot five under 66 that's all for today if you'd like to stay updated on more of the latest golf news subscribe to this Channel and give this video a thumbs up