- FedExCup Points: 50,000
- Purse: $7.0 million
- Winning Share: $1,260,000
- Yards: 7,547
PGA TOUR Media Official
• Lift, clean and place rules were in effect for round one in anticipation of possible rain/thunder-storms.
• Friday's second round tee times will again run from 8:00-9:50 a.m. Play will be in threesomes off both the first and 10th tees. There will NOT be a 36-hole cut in this event.
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• Thursday's scoring average of 70.338 is the second-lowest single-round average in tournament history. The low for any round was 70.254 in the final round at Cog Hill G&CC in 2001. The previous low first-round scoring average was 71.311 at Blythefield CC in 1961.
• Arron Oberholser withdrew after nine holes due to hand injuries (both hands). Oberholser finished tied for second at last week's Deutsche Bank Championship and moved up from No. 67 to No. 29 in the FedExCup points list. Oberholser has 94,373 FedExCup points while No. 31 David Toms has 94,000.
• Justin Rose tied the Cog Hill tournament record with his 29 (6-under/par 35) today. Rose had 6 birdies and 3 pars en route to his 29 on the front nine. Paul Stankowski shot a 7-under 29 on the front in the second round at Cog Hill G&CC in 1999 when it played to a par-36. Stewart Cink also had a 6-under 29 on the front in round two last year.
• Jonathan Byrd, No. 30 in the current FedExCup standings, posted a 7-under-par 64 today, his career-best in this event. Byrd, winner of the 2007 John Deere Classic, is making his sixth start at Cog Hill. His previous best round was a 4-under 67 in the first round in 2002, the first round in 2004 and the second round in 2005. Byrd's best finish here is a tie for 20th in 2002, his initial appearance.
• Jonathan Byrd has held an 18-hole lead only once in his PGA TOUR career. He shared the first-day lead at the 2003 John Deere Classic with J. L. Lewis (6-under 65s). The closest he's been to the lead after the first day since then was at the 2005 Southern Farm Bureau Classic when he was in second place, one shot back of leader Bob Tway.
• Jonathan Byrd's 64 Thursday is the best opening-round score of his PGA TOUR career. His 7-under par total matches his career-best, in relation to par -- a 7-under-par 65 in the first round of the 2005 Southern Farm Bureau Classic.
• The BMW Championship is the third of four events in the inaugural PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. The top-30 players in the point standings after this week will advance to the final event, THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola in Atlanta.
• Tiger Woods posted a 4-under-par 67 today. Woods has played in this event 11 times and won it three times in his career (1997, 1999 and 2003). Each time he won he shot a first-round score in the 60s. In his eight non-winning appearances, Woods openend with a score in the 70s.
• Bogey-free rounds Thursday: 66 -- Troy Matteson, Pat Perez; 67 -- Ken Duke, Nathan Green, Woody Austin.
• There were a total of seven eagles made Thursday, all on par-5s: No. 11 -- Stuart Appleby, John Mallinger, Pat Perez, Ian Poulter, Kevin Sutherland, Nick Watney; No. 15 Camilo Villegas.
• Troy Matteson (66/T4) tied for ninth at last week's Deutsche Bank Championship and entered the week No. 45 on the FedExCup points list. Matteson missed the cut last year in his first, and only, appearance in this event.
• Heath Slocum, No. 26 in the FedExCup standings, shot an even-par 71 despite six birdies.
