Shane Lowry motored to his lowest opening spherical since April as he chases BMW Championship victory and an opportunity to trouser the $17m (£14.3m) FedEx Cup bonanza.
He was pissed off to complete a terrific day with a three-putt bogey on the final within the penultimate Play-Off occasion.
However at thirty seventh within the standings, he wants an enormous week to make the highest 30 who contest subsequent week’s season-ending Tour Championship and his five-under 66 offers him a terrific platform to make it to Atlanta for the primary time with an opportunity to win the jackpot.
“I’m fairly completely happy,” mentioned Lowry, who birdied the fourth, tenth and twelfth, drained an outrageous 57-footer for eagle on the 14th, then stiffed his method to the seventeenth earlier than three-putting the final from 55ft.
“Clearly a smelly end, and lunch isn't going to style as good after that. However I really feel like over the past month or so I’ve been struggling to get off to good begins in tournaments.
“It was good to shoot 5 underneath and get myself within the match shortly. Hopefully I can exit and preserve enjoying the golf I'm and provides myself an opportunity.”
Lowry performed alongside Thirty sixth-ranked Séamus Energy, who was three over for the day after dropping 4 pictures in a four-hole stretch across the flip earlier than rallying with birdies on the twelfth, fifteenth and sixteenth for a level-par 71 that left him tied thirty ninth.
Lowry was tied third within the clubhouse with Harold Varner and Justin Thomas, two pictures behind Keegan Bradley, whose seven-under 64 gave him a one-shot lead over Adam Scott.
Within the D+D Actual Czech Masters in Prague, David Carey, Cormac Sharvin and Gavin Moynihan opened with one-under 71s to share fifty fifth at Albatross Golf Resort, seven pictures behind South Africa’s Louis de Jager.
On the Problem Tour’s Dormy Open in Sweden, The Island’s Paul McBride carded a five-under 67 and share fifth place, simply three pictures behind Finland’s Lauri Ruuska.
Kinsale’s John Murphy and Ruaidhri McGee had been tied 73rd after level-par 72s with Holywood’s Tom McKibbin 96th after a 73.