Plenty of movement took place on the FedEx Cup front in Thursday’s first round of the Wyndham Championship. John Huh is your leader and if he goes on to win this weekend he would leap from outside the top 110 to inside the top 140 heading into the FedEx St. Jude Invitational next week at TPC Southwind.
That’s not the most important jump though as a few golfers moved from outside the ever-important top 125 to inside of it, which means two more — including a former Ryder Cup participant — could fall outside of the top 125 and miss out on next week’s first playoff event.
We’ll take a look at all of that as well as who’s challenging the lead and who is best positioned on the odds board to make a move over the next 54 holes of play at Sedgefield Country Club.
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The leaders
T1. John Huh (-9): Huh shot one of the great rounds of his life Thursday. Not only was he three strokes better than everybody except Sungjae Im, but he also finished in the top 10 in this field in approach shots, from tee to green and with his putter. He hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation, gave himself nine birdie looks inside of 12 feet (and made a 38-foot eagle putt), made seven birdies and that eagle and now stands to check off what would be just his second top 10 on the PGA Tour since 2018 (Huh also finished in the top 10 at the Honda Classic earlier this season). Afterward, he actually didn’t sound too confident about where he was heading into Round 2.
“I’m actually surprised I’m at the top of the leaderboard, yeah, to be quite honest with you,” Huh said. “I didn’t really feel my game was there, but it’s one of those days where I took advantage of some good shots and good breaks, I think.”
Other contenders
2. Sungjae Im (-7)
T3. Brandon Wu, Peter Malnati (-6)
T5. Austin Smotherman, Cameron Percy, Brian Stuard, Ryan Moore, Alex Smalley, Aaron Wise, Ben Kohles, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Michael Gligic (-5)
Im rolled in after a…
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