Hahn, Barnes lead at Byron Nelson
Bogeys on front nine hurt defending champion Garcia.
James Hahn birdied the final hole Thursday for a 6-under 64 and a share of the first-round lead with Ricky Barnes in the AT&T Byron Nelson.
Matt Kuchar, Jhonattan Vegas, Jason Kokrak and Cameron Tringale shot 66, and top-ranked Dustin Johnson topped the group at 67, a stroke ahead of fourthranked Jason Day and Jordan Spieth, the No. 6 player competing in his hometown event in Irving, Texas.
Masters and defending Nelson champion Sergio Garcia had three bogeys on the front nine and just one birdie in a 73 that left him tied for 93rd.
Brooks Koepka, who lost to Garcia on the first playoff hole at the TPC Four Seasons a year ago, joined Johnson and five others at 67.
LPGA: Lexi Thompson had six birdies in a seven-hole stretch and finished with a 6-under 65 to take the first-round lead in the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va.
Thompson had a onestroke lead over Gerina Piller and Brittany Lincicome and young American Angel Yin. She played her opening nine in even par with a birdie on No. 11 and a bogey on No. 17, then birdied No. 1 and Nos. 3-7 on Kingsmill Resort’s River Course.
Top-ranked Lydia Ko was two strokes back at 67 along with Sarah Jane Smith and Giulia Molinaro.
PGA Tour Champions: Scott McCarron delivered another finishing eagle with the lead on the line.
McCarron eagled the par-5 18th hole for a 7-under 65 and a share of the opening-round lead in the Regions Tradition, the first of the PGA Tour Champions’ five majors.
Lee Janzen, Jeff Sluman and Miguel Angel Jimenez joined McCarron atop the leaderboard at Greystone in Birmingham, Ala.
McCarron, seeking his fourth PGA Tour Champions victory, had a big finish.
“I called bank shot out there from 245 (yards) and just one-hopped the back of the grandstands in there about 3 1/2 feet and was able to curl that one in,” he said.
His eagle on the 54th hole at the Allianz Championship in February turned a one-stroke deficit into a win.