Scheffler starts with Tour Championship lead and expands it
ATLANTA (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler might have had a roller coaster of an opening round Thursday at the Tour Championship if only he had been paying attention to the scoreboards.
Scheffler started with a two-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup. He led by as many as six shots on the front nine. Then his lead was down to two. And when he finished with three straight birdies for a 5-under 65, he was five strokes ahead of Xander Schauffele.
“I didn’t know any of that,” he said. “I was just trying to go out and shoot a good number.”
Rory McIlroy’s day at East Lake was far more wild. And he knew it.