The Tour Championship - Day One

After shooting a 29 on the front nine last week, Tim Clark follows up by tying the course record 62 at East Lake. I haven't heard much about this guy until lately. I know that he has good golf chops, I mean, he IS on tour right? He hasn't won a PGA event...yet, but he has had some top 10 finishes in some majors. Keep an eye on this guy, if he's got the head for it, he obviously has the game to go low and pull out a win.

That won't have any effect on the outcome of the FedEx Cup though. Tiger came out and shot a dart on number one, but before he could putt out, the horn blew for what turned out to be about a two and a half hour weather delay. After the delay Tiger came out and sank a short birdie putt and was 1 under through 1....good start. Second hole, par 3....another dart just over the flag leaving another fairly easy birdie putt....2 under through 2. Third hole, driver (odd choice for him) into the left rough but long, leaving a tricky short wedge shot. He sticks it about 15ft leaving a slow uphill putt for birdie. Bang, sinks it. 3 under through 3. Tiger is sitting at 4 under through 11 after the end of the first round. It looks like he's a shoe in for the cup.

Phil, oh Phil...my heart goes out to him. I did say that he was a choke artist didn't I? He screwed his drive on number 1 and then fluffed some sort of attempt at a towering wedge over the Georgia pines, chipped onto the green in 3 and somehow managed to save bogey. Things went downhill from there for a while. Phil was 3 over at one point but did manage to scramble back to 1 under by the end of play. We'll see what he can do today. I say that he winds up even par or maybe a couple over.

Steve Stricker is dissapointing me. I thought he would come out and give Tiger a run from the get-go. He missed a few birdie putts that he would have made last week and sits at 1 over par going into the finishing of the first round, today.

There are some notables that have a chance to win the Championship, Hunter Mahan is looking good again, Rory Sabbatini is 2 under. I'll be watching Live@ coverage today at pgatour.com Stay tuned for more updates.

Dale