World primary Scottie Scheffler shot a nine-under 63 within the first spherical of the American Specific in California on his first PGA Tour look of the season.
The 29-year-old has not performed this 12 months and is but to win the American Specific event, which boasts a prize of £1,236,000 ($1.656m) for the winner.
Scheffler sits one off the lead in La Quinta held collectively by Min Woo Lee of Australia and america’ Pierceson Coody.
He’s joined on 9 below by a number of gamers together with Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre and former US PGA champion Jason Day.
Unusually, the sphere play throughout three completely different programs earlier than the minimize on Saturday.
Scheffler birdied 5 of his first six holes whereas Coody hit successive birdies on his approach to taking pictures 29 on the again 9.
