Wyndham Championship 2015: Leaderboard Scores and Highlights from Thursday

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Published: August 20, 2015

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Tiger Woods shot his best round in more than a year. It wasn't enough to take down the trio of Erik Compton, William McGirt and Tom Hoge, who shot eight-under 62s to take the lead heading into the second round of the 2015 Wyndham Championship.

Posting their rounds early in the day, Compton and McGirt were able to watch on as the field tried to match their score. McGirt, a North Carolina native who has never won on the PGA Tour, played a consistently brilliant round of golf, spreading out his eight birdies across the course. He hit 83.3 percent of his greens and barely missed out on tying the course record.   



“Today was probably the easiest round I had all year,” McGirt said, per Rex Hoggard of Golf Channel. “I drove it in the fairway most of the day. The fairways I missed were barely missed.”

Compton's low score, on the other hand, came in a large spurt. After carding one birdie on the back nine (his front), the 35-year-old Miami native birdied seven of his final nine holes, including a string of four to close out his round. A surprising second-place finisher at the 2014 U.S. Open, Compton hit 100 percent of greens in regulation and missed just one fairway.       

After a round like that, the memes write themselves:



Hoge was among the last groups of the day. Like Compton, he dominated the front nine. Another in-state product, Hoge opened his round with a 29 on the front, highlighted by an eagle on the par-five fifth. Two additional birdies on the back put him in position for his first tour win. Jason Sobel of ESPN.com pointed out the contrast in national recognition between Hoge and Woods:



Jim Herman, Morgan Hoffmann and Derek Ernst each finished one stroke behind the leaders at seven under. 

Woods, making perhaps his last appearance of the 2015 season, was in his finest form of 20...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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