By Chris Dunham, PGATOUR.COM ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- Martin Piller’s opening round was bookended by bogeys, but everything was going his way in between the two miscues. The 2010 Nationwide Tour graduate, who checks in at No. 202 on the money list, posted his lowest mark on the PGA TOUR with Thursday’s 6-under 64, that has him one shot off the pace after the first round of the McGladrey Classic. “I was just hitting pretty good shots and started making putts,” Piller said. “I made a couple long ones, 20-, 30-footers … It was just going my way, which is nice because it hasn’t gone my way a lot this year. So it’s nice when it goes my way.” After his opening bogey, Piller made three birdies to turn at 2 under. He heated up on the back nine, starting with back-to-back-to-back birdies and adding two more at Nos. 15 and 16. Piller was tied atop the leaderboard on No. 18. He hit his tee shot in the fairway, but missed the green well to the right before pitching up and two-putting from 56 feet to save bogey. “I don't want to sit here and make excuses, but I was hitting my irons super good today, and that shot was uncharacteristic,” Piller said. “I felt good over it, and that was uncharacteristic I would say.” Good play in the Peach State is certainly not uncharacteristic for Piller. The rookie won in Athens on the Nationwide Tour last year en route to earning his TOUR card for 2011.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- The first round of play has concluded at Sea Island with Webb Simpson and Zack Miller tied atop the leaderbaord at 7 under. Simpson, looking to overtake Luke Donald atop the PGA TOUR money list, took the lead after the morning wave. Miller, a 2010 q-school graduate and TOUR rookie, caught him after 14 holes and pared his final four to claim a share of the overnight lead. The lead looked as though it would be divided three ways until the waining moments of the round. Martin Piller, playing the day’s next-to-last group, suffered a bogey on the 18th hole to drop to 6 under, one off the pace. Piller joins Scott McCarron and Billy Horschel on that number. At day’s end, 77 of the 132 players in the field were under par. Graeme McDowell, Matt Kuchar, Bo Van Pelt and defending champion Heath Slocum are among the players at even.

There have been very few low scores on what’s proving to be a very difficult TPC Four Seasons golf course -- until now.

Martin Piller is 6 under through 11 holes so far and now leads by two after six birdies in what’s been pretty much a flawless round. Three of those birdies for Piller have come from beyond 15 feet and his ball-striking has been very good with nine of 11 greens hit so far. Piller has also taken just 14 putts, which ties for second-best in the field at the moment.

Piller still has a long way to go to catch the course record, however -- a 61 shot three times, the last of which was by Justin Leonard in 2001. Click here to follow the rest of Piller’s round with Shot Tracker .

Just how difficult did TPC San Antonio play in the second round? Here’s a rundown:

-- Just 13 players broke par and through two rounds only 16 players were under par for the tournament.

-- The scoring average in Round 2 was 75.283 -- more than three strokes over par. The last time a round was
that high was the opening round of this year’s Honda Classic, where the average was 73.875 on the par-70 layout.

-- There were seven bogey-free rounds in the opening round compared to just one bogey-free round in Round 2.

-- There were 600 bogeys in Round 2 -- more than 150 more than there were in the opening round -- and there was at least one double bogey on each of the 18 holes at TPC San Antonio.

Most of that was due to the wind and tough pin positions. In Round 3, the wind is only in the 15-mph range and players are taking advantage of the much calmer conditions.

Martin Piller is already 3 under through nine holes -- and in a tie for the lead -- while Fredrik Jacobson and Kevin Streelman are 5 and 3 under, respectively. Pat Perez has also moved into contention at 3 under early in his round.

In other words, it looks like moving day won’t involve the lead moving backwards.