Rose (65) and Knox (66) set pace in FedExCup play-offs

      
  

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First-Round Notes – Friday, August 31, 2018

Weather: Partly cloudy, with a high of 76. Wind ENE 6-12 mph

 

First-Round Leaderboard

Justin Rose                         65 (-6)

Russell Knox                       66 (-5)

Abraham Ancer                  66 (-5)

 

Leading Asian scores

C.T. Pan                                 69 (-2)

Byeong Hun An                   69 (-2)

Si Woo Kim                           70 (-1)

Hideki Matsuyama             71 (E)

Whee Kim                             72 (+1)

Anirban Lahiri                      74 (+3)

Five Things To Know

• The top-100 players in the FedExCup standings qualified for the Dell Technologies Championship. The top-70 players after this week will advance to next week’s BMW Championship
• Justin Thomas (2017), Rory McIlroy (2016), Henrik Stenson (2013) and Vijay Singh (2008) won the Dell Technologies Championship and FedExCup title in the same year
• Justin Rose posts one of just two bogey-free rounds to take 18-hole lead
• Russell Knox uses an eagle-2 at No. 15 from 109 yards to open with a 5-under 66
• Tiger Woods (72) posts a third-consecutive over-par score at TPC Boston

  

 

Justin Rose (-6/1^st)

Age: 38 (July 30, 1980)

Joined TOUR: 1998

Entering the week

#6                       FedExCup

#1                       FedExCup Projected Standing

#4                       OWGR

13                       Starts at Dell Technologies Championship

320                     PGA TOUR starts

9                         PGA TOUR victories

15                       PGA TOUR starts in 2017-18

8                         Top-10s in 2017-18