If anyone wants to build momentum heading into the FedEx Cup, they better start catching up to Jon Rahm. And fast.
Rahm carded an eight-under 62 in Thursday's opening round of the 2019 FedEx St. Jude Invitational, giving him a three-stroke lead over Bubba Watson, Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Smith, Hideki Matsuyama and Shugo Imahira who are in a five-way tie for second.
Rahm tied the lowest-ever first-round score in a World Golf Championship event. He carded eight birdies without a single bogey and had one of the best putting rounds of his career. The PGA's strokes-gained metric calculated that Rahm saved 5.