Pierceson Coody shoots 11-under 61 to take lead in the ISCO Championship in Kentucky

By The Associated Press

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Pierceson Coody shot an 11-under 61 — the lowest round in his brief PGA Tour career — to take the first-round lead Thursday in the ISCO Championship in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Coody had 11 birdies in the bogey-free morning round on Keene Trace’s Champions Course, making six straight birdies on Nos. 5-10. Coody — the 24-year-old grandson of 1971 Masters champion Charles Coody — made a 5-footer for birdie on the par-4 18th for the last of his 20 putts. Hayden Springer was three strokes back at 64 with Rico Hoey of the Philippines in the tournament co-sanctioned by the European tour. Last week in the John Deere Classic in Illinois, Hayden opened with a 59 and tied for seventh.