Rick Lamb leads after weather-delayed Round 1 at Veritex Bank Championship

The first round was suspended due to lightning at 8:51 a.m. local time and resumed at 10:43 a.m. (1 hour, 52 minutes). It was suspended again due to lightning a second time at 11:46 a.m. and resumed at 5:44 p.m. (5 hours, 58 minutes), then suspended due to darkness at 8:06 p.m. The first round will resume at 7:15 a.m., with first-round tee times for the afternoon wave beginning at 7:35 a.m.

Charting the leader (stats entering week)

Rick Lamb

(first/-11)

• Cards 11-under 60 for his lowest 18-hole score in PGA TOUR-sanctioned play, with Thursday marking his 504th career round in TOUR-sanctioned play (previous career-low round: 62, four times in Korn Ferry Tour events, most recent at 2025 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard/Round 1)
• Should he hold the 18-hole lead, would mark his fifth career 18-hole lead/co-lead in a Korn Ferry Tour event, and second such lead/co-lead this season (Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard/finished T19)
• Boasts three top-10s in eight starts this season, including a runner-up finish (lost playoff to Jeremy Gandon) at the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club earlier this month, which marked his first top-three finish on Tour since the 2019 LECOM Suncoast Classic (finished T3)
• Finished T29 at the 2024 Veritex Bank Championship, his only previous appearance in the event
• Finished No. 74 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List; he finished T13 at the second-to-last event of the season, the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, to move inside the top 75 and earn fully exempt status for the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season
• Winner of the 2016 LECOM Health Challenge on the Korn Ferry Tour as an open qualifier, with the win propelling him to PGA TOUR membership at season’s end

Additional notes

• PGA TOUR winner S.Y. Noh (T2/-8), who plays from Frisco, Texas, cards his lowest 18-hole score in a Korn Ferry Tour event, and his lowest round in PGA TOUR-sanctioned play since a first-round 60 at the 2023 CJ CUP at Bryon Nelson.
• Trey Winstead (T2/-8), who finished No. 35 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie, matches his career-low round on Tour with his third round of 63 this season (Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank/Round 3; The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club/Round 3).
• Rookie Johnny Keefer (T2/-8), who finished No. 1 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup standings on PGA TOUR Americas after a No. 25 finish in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, opens in 8-under 63, his third round of 63 or lower this season (previous: 61/Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard/Rounds 2 and 3); he plays from San Antonio, Texas and played collegiately at Baylor University.
• Pontus Nyholm (T2/-8), who finished in the top 75 of the Korn Ferry Tour Points List each of the last three seasons, cards his third round of 64 or better at the Veritex Bank Championship in what is his fourth appearance at the event (62/Round 4/2022; 64/Round 1/2022); he finished T2 at the 2022 Veritex Bank Championship as a Korn Ferry Tour rookie.