Wagner and Tommy Gainey each shot an 8-under 62 on Thursday to share a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Greenbrier Classic.
Webb Simpson and Jin Park were close behind after 64s. Daniel Summerhays, Tag Ridings, Steven Bowditch and 50-year-old Neal Lancaster were another shot back. Players were able to lift, clean and place their balls Thursday after rain fell prior to the start of play.
Gainey and Wagner had bogey-free rounds in the morning. Wagner was 8 under after 12 holes but finished with six straight pars. Both could use a good week ? Gainey is 125th in season tour winnings, while Wagner ranks 148th. Wagner doesn?t have a top-10 finish this year and the three-time tour champion hasn?t won since the 2012 Sony Open. In his last seven tournaments, he?s missed six cuts and withdrew from the Memorial.
?The last couple of months have been really hard,? Wagner said. ?I just haven?t been much fun to be around. It?s just been tough. Nobody likes to be bad at what they do, especially golfers.?
A product of Virginia Tech ? which is less than two hours from the Old White TPC course ? Wagner chipped in for eagle on the par-5 12th, then finished with six straight pars.
?I?ve been disappointed with 76s and 79s the last month, so I?m very happy to be disappointed with a 62 today,? said Wagner, who shaved his well-talked-about mustache in a nod to his wife for their seventh wedding anniversary on Monday.
?I didn?t get her a gift. So I thought maybe surprising her with a clean lip would suffice,? he said.
The mustache will return at some point.
?I love irritating my wife too much to let it go for too long,? he said.
Gainey?s first PGA Tour victory came last fall at the McGladrey Classic, but like Wagner he has missed more cuts than he?s made this year.
Nicknamed ?Two Gloves? for wearing gloves on both hands, Gainey had a serious talk with his wife, two other family members and his agent in the past month to try to figure out how to turn around his bad fortunes.
Gainey said he had stopped having fun on the course.
?I had gotten away from that and I?m trying to get back into that now,? he said. ?I felt like I knew what was going on. I was putting too much pressure on myself.?
Not Thursday, when he missed just one fairway with a new driver in his bag.
?Hitting out of the rough is no fun,? Gainey said. ?Trust me, I?ve been doing it for the past three years.?
Wagner admitted he had thoughts of shooting 59.
Gainey knows what it?s like to flirt with the magic number, which only five players have attained in official PGA Tour events.
He shot 60 in the McGladrey Classic?s final round.
At the inaugural Greenbrier Classic in 2010, Stuart Appleby shot 59 in the final round to win at 22 under. With favorable scoring conditions this week, there?s already talk about surpassing that.
On Thursday, the top eight scores produced just nine total bogeys.
?I believe you can get to at least 20 (under) this week,? Gainey said. ?It depends on how much rain we get and how much softer this course gets.?
Lancaster?s lone PGA Tour win came at the 1994 Byron Nelson Classic. He?s won $83,000 in five Champions Tour events this year. With an early second-round tee time, he knew where he was heading after Thursday?s round.
?To bed. Fifty-year-old guys don?t want to play golf at 7:20 in the morning,? he said.
Among those at 2 under were Bill Haas, coming off a win at Congressional last week, and Ryan Palmer, whose caddie is New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton.
Phil Mickelson, playing for the first time since finishing second to Justin Rose at the U.S. Open, struggled to a 74. His tee shot on the par-5 17th landed in Howard?s Creek and he three-putted for triple bogey. He also had five bogeys and four birdies.
A similar round on Friday would mean his third missed cut of the year and the third consecutive time he?s failed to advance to weekend play at the Greenbrier Classic.
?I don?t know what it is,? Mickelson said. ?I felt like I was playing really well heading in here. I don?t play this course well. I don?t know what the reasoning is. It?s just given me problems the last few years.?
GREENBRIER CLASSIC SCORES
Thursday
First Round
Tommy Gainey 30-32?62
Johnson Wagner 29-33?62
Webb Simpson 31-33?64
Jin Park 31-33?64
Daniel Summerhays 31-34?65
Neal Lancaster 32-33?65
Tag Ridings 31-34?65
Steven Bowditch 30-35?65
Brendon de Jonge 31-35?66
Peter Hanson 33-33?66
David Mathis 30-36?66
James Driscoll 33-33?66
Scott Brown 32-34?66
Ben Crane 32-34?66
Jonas Blixt 34-32?66
D.H. Lee 33-33?66
Bill Lunde 31-35?66
Jason Kokrak 32-34?66
Brendan Steele 32-34?66
George McNeill 32-34?66
Brian Davis 33-34?67
Kevin Chappell 32-35?67
Louis Oosthuizen 32-35?67
Russell Henley 31-36?67
Tom Gillis 32-35?67
Jordan Spieth 34-33?67
Bob Estes 32-35?67
Michael Letzig 30-37?67
Davis Love III 35-32?67
Ben Curtis 33-34?67
Greg Owen 33-34?67
J.J. Henry 34-34?68
Justin Leonard 34-34?68
Bill Haas 35-33?68
Casey Wittenberg 34-34?68
Brad Adamonis 36-32?68
Richard H. Lee 35-33?68
Andres Romero 30-38?68
Woody Austin 35-33?68
Kenny Perry 29-39?68
Bubba Watson 34-34?68
Ryan Palmer 34-34?68
Tom Watson 32-36?68
Jeff Overton 33-35?68
Brian Harman 35-33?68
Henrik Norlander 32-36?68
Alistair Presnell 34-34?68
Brad Fritsch 32-36?68
Erik Compton 34-35?69
Chad Campbell 34-35?69
Matt Jones 31-38?69
Gary Woodland 33-36?69
Brian Gay 33-36?69
Ken Duke 35-34?69
Charles Howell III 33-36?69
Matt Every 33-36?69
William McGirt 33-36?69
Graham DeLaet 35-34?69
Troy Matteson 36-33?69
Tim Petrovic 34-35?69
Robert Streb 34-35?69
Jimmy Walker 33-36?69
Billy Horschel 35-34?69
Carl Pettersson 33-36?69
Ted Potter, Jr. 33-36?69
Morgan Hoffmann 34-35?69
Jason Bohn 34-36?70
Ricky Barnes 32-38?70
Lee Janzen 33-37?70
Chez Reavie 34-36?70
Fabian Gomez 36-34?70
Rory Sabbatini 35-35?70
Stuart Appleby 36-34?70
Patrick Reed 35-35?70
Roberto Castro 34-36?70
Ben Kohles 35-35?70
Bobby Gates 33-37?70
Robert Karlsson 32-38?70
D.J. Trahan 33-37?70
Shawn Stefani 34-36?70
Michael Bradley 35-35?70
Scott Stallings 32-38?70
D.A. Points 34-36?70
Sean O?Hair 35-35?70
John Senden 34-36?70
Michael Kim 34-36?70
K.J. Choi 35-36?71
Bryce Molder 34-37?71
Vaughn Taylor 36-35?71
Billy Mayfair 36-35?71
Gary Christian 35-36?71
Ryan Blaum 34-37?71
Chris DiMarco 34-37?71
Brian Stuard 34-37?71
David Lingmerth 35-36?71
Martin Flores 35-36?71
Jeff Maggert 35-36?71
Joey Snyder III 34-37?71
Pat Perez 36-35?71
Andres Gonzales 35-36?71
Cameron Percy 35-36?71
Dan Obremski 35-36?71
Luke List 35-36?71
Si Woo Kim 35-36?71
Andrew Svoboda 36-35?71
Mark Silvers 33-38?71
James Hahn 34-38?72
Charlie Beljan 35-37?72
Nick Watney 34-38?72
Trevor Immelman 36-36?72
Mike Weir 36-36?72
Josh Teater 38-34?72
Donald Constable 33-39?72
Aaron Watkins 37-35?72
Scott Gardiner 35-37?72
Lee Williams 34-38?72
Rod Pampling 35-37?72
Jeff Gove 36-36?72
Scott Piercy 35-37?72
Lucas Glover 34-38?72
Will Claxton 35-37?72
Nicholas Thompson 37-35?72
Dicky Pride 38-34?72
Seung-Yul Noh 34-38?72
Jim Herman 36-36?72
Jason Gore 31-42?73
Cameron Tringale 36-37?73
Greg Chalmers 35-38?73
Vijay Singh 34-39?73
Charlie Wi 36-37?73
Ryo Ishikawa 38-35?73
Luke Guthrie 37-36?73
Scott Langley 35-38?73
Kevin Shields 36-37?73
Stephen Ames 37-37?74
Robert Allenby 37-37?74
Bud Cauley 35-39?74
Jesper Parnevik 36-38?74
Justin Bolli 34-40?74
Paul Haley II 38-36?74
Boo Weekley 37-37?74
Phil Mickelson 35-39?74
Doug LaBelle II 38-36?74
Ryan Zylstra 37-37?74
John Daly 39-36?75
Jonathan Byrd 38-37?75
Pat Carter 36-39?75
Wes Short, Jr. 36-39?75
Eric Meierdierks 38-37?75
David Hearn 37-39?76
Colt Knost 37-39?76
Steve LeBrun 35-41?76
Darron Stiles 37-40?77
Scott Verplank 36-41?77
Aaron Baddeley 39-38?77
Kyle Stanley 40-37?77
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