Scheffler’s bogey-free 67 was, per Justin Ray, just the seventh time in 40 years a golfer found five or fewer fairways at Torrey Pines South and shot that low. He hit at least three tee shots that missed so far they went behind the crowds and could enter the weekend playing the final group with leader Davis Thompson.

Scheffler sits two strokes off the first-round lead held by Denny McCarthy, who eagled the par-5 18th to post a 4-under 68. At 2 under, Scheffler was among just 13 players -- including the likes of Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns and Min Woo Lee -- in the 72-man field to shoot in red figures on Thursday.