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  • Japan's Satoshi Kodaira and American Kramer Hickok each fired seven-under-par 63s to share the lead after Thursday's opening round of the US PGA Travelers Championship. American Talor Gooch was third on 64 at TPC River Highlands with a pack on 65 including Sweden's Henrik Norlander and Americans Patrick Rodgers, Beau Hossler, Brice Garnett and Maverick McNealy. Back-nine starter Kodaira dropped his approach at the 12th just outside three feet to set up his first birdie, then reeled off three birdies in a row starting with a 17-footer at the 14th and closing with a 28-footer at the par-3 16th. Kodaira sank a 16-foot birdie putt at the first hole, then holed out from the fairway from 81 yards to eagle the par-4 second. "I knew it was on target but didn't see it go in," Kodaira said. "I heard the applause, so I knew it went in." World number 294 Kodaira, who won his only PGA title at the 2018 Heritage event, added an 11-foot birdie putt at the third hole and would have had the outright lead but missed the green at the par-3 eighth and made his lone bogey of the day. "Had good flow going at the beginning of the round and that continued throughout the round, and so it felt really well," Kodaira said. "Before the round I wasn't thinking this way, but I've been playing well so the flow of that is continuing. I felt really well going into this round." Hickok, chasing his first PGA title, opened with a bogey at the 10th hole but had three birdie putts from inside 10 feet before making the turn, then birdied the first and second, the latter his longest birdie putt of the day from 16 feet. Hickok birdied three of the last four holes, including a 12-footer at 18. "I was hitting a lot of good putts," he said. "I really only hit one bad putt on the par-5 13, and other than that, I just felt like the holes looked awfully big today." It came as a shock after a miserable workout before the round began, Hickok said. "I got off to like the worst warmup session of the year this morning and was just hitting it everywhere," he said. "I really changed my strategy. I was just trying to play a little bit more conservative, hit greens, and once the putts started to fall, I just knew it really freed me up. "It takes a lot of discipline and it's tough to know that, 'Hey, like yesterday I could have hit this shot. Right now I just don't have it.' Did a really good job of doing that." js/rcw
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  • Kodaira, Hickok shoot 63s to share PGA Travelers lead
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