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 | | Bhatia Leads By 3 After Opening 63 | |
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| Pos | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Round | Total | Strokes |
| 1 | Akshay Bhatia
| 63 | | | | -9 | -9 | 63 |
| T2 | Brendon Todd
| 66 | | | | -6 | -6 | 66 |
| T2 | Justin Lower | 66 | | | | -6 | -6 | 66 |
| T4 | Austin Eckroat
| 68 | | | | -4 | -4 | 68 |
| T4 | Max Homa | 68 | | | | -4 | -4 | 68 |
| T4 | Denny McCarthy | 68 | | | | -4 | -4 | 68 |
| T4 | Tyson Alexander | 68 | | | | -4 | -4 | 68 |
 | Equals his career low round on the PGA TOUR with a bogey-free 9-under 63 at the Valero Texas Open; marks his fourth 63 and first since the third round of the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta | |
| Holds the first-round lead/co-lead for the first time; previous-best position after 18 holes is T2 (2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am/finished T30) | |
| Making third start at the event (MC/2021, T46/2023); previous-low round at TPC San Antonio: 68/R4/2023 | |
| Five top-20 finishes in nine starts this season, with a T11 at last week's Texas Children's Houston Open his best outing | |
| Has one win in 53 prior PGA TOUR starts (2023 Barracuda Championship) | |
| Rory McIlroy (T8/-3), the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking, opens with a 3-under 69 in his sixth start of the season; current streak of five starts to start the season without a top-10 is his longest such streak since 2010, his first season as a member, when he won the Wells Fargo Championship in his sixth start, earning his first career PGA TOUR title | |
| Two-time and defending champion Corey Conners (T17/-2) cards a 2-under 70; with a win this week, would become the first player since World War II to earn his first three wins at the same event; has made 15 consecutive cuts, tied for the fifth-longest active streak on TOUR, and is coming off a T13 at THE PLAYERS Championship | |
| 2016 Valero Texas Open champion Charley Hoffman (T53/E) opens his 500th PGA TOUR start with an even-par 72; marks the third consecutive year that a player has made their 500th career start on TOUR at the Valero Texas Open, with Hoffman joining Matt Kuchar (T2/2022) and Lucas Glover (45th/2023) | |
| 2021 Valero Texas Open champion Jordan Spieth (T80/+1) aces the par-3 16th hole with a 7-iron from 199 yards, marking his fourth ace on the PGA TOUR and first since the third round of the 2021 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard (No. 2); posts opening-round 1-over 73 | |
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