Jordan Spieth topped the leaderboard after spherical one of many FedEx St Jude Championship, the place he scored seven beneath par with a rating of 63.
He goes into spherical two in Memphis main Tom Kim by one shot and admitted he has been engaged on his placing.
“Quite a bit of putting. I played really well at the British. Tee to green, I played well enough to win,” he mentioned afterwards.
“I didn’t feel like I missed many of my lines. I just couldn’t quite get the matching of the line and speed on the greens.
“Now we come to slopey Bermuda and very fast slopey Bermuda where I feel a little more comfortable picking lines and kind of feeding the ball in using gravity.
“I think that helped, along with quite a bit of work as best I could in Texas right now, which is really from the hours of 7:00 a.m to noon before it’s almost unbearable.
“Just tightened some things up. I tried to play a lot just to shoot scores. I had kind of taken off playing a bunch, and I think that that helped a bit in the last couple weeks.”
England’s Tommy Fleetwood and Aaron Rai are the very best of the British contingent, closing out Thursday on 4 beneath par.
Rory McIlroy sits a shot again on three beneath, after the Northern Irishman cut up three bogeys with 4 birdies and an eagle.