Johnny Keefer takes first-round lead at Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club

Charting the leader

Johnny Keefer (first/-7)

• Cards a bogey-free 7-under 65 to hold his second 18-hole lead/co-lead of his Korn Ferry Tour career (first/2025 Panama Championship/finished T2)
• Korn Ferry Tour rookie with five made cuts in six starts this season, highlighted by two top-10s
• Earned fully exempt status for the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season by finishing No. 1 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup standings on PGA TOUR Americas; posted nine top-10s in 10 starts last season, including four runner-up finishes and a victory at the 2024 CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open
• Claimed the final spot in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, finishing No. 25 to earn exempt membership for the North America Swing of the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas season
• Played five seasons (2019-24) at Baylor University, where he earned two victories (2021/Rice Intercollegiate, 2023/Valero Texas Collegiate) and broke six-time PGA TOUR winner Jimmy Walker’s school record for career scoring average (71.45)

Additional notes

• Myles Creighton (T2/-6), who finished No. 45 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie, records a bogey-free 6-under 66 to log the best 18-hole position of his career (previous: T6/2024 The Ascendant presented by Blue/finished T32).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Trace Crowe (T2/-6) makes seven birdies (Nos. 1, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 16) against one bogey (No. 12) en route to a 6-under 66.
• Korn Ferry Tour rookie Cole Sherwood (T2/-6), who finished No. 7 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, holds the best 18-hole position of his career after a bogey-free 6-under 66 (previous: T4/2025 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club/finished T56).
• Mitchell Meissner (T2/-6), who finished No. 47 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List in his second season on Tour, opens in 6-under 66 for a career-high 18-hole position (previous: T6, three times).
• Rob Oppenheim (T6/-5), who finished runner-up at the 2024 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club (lost to Steven Fisk in a sudden-death playoff), posts a bogey-free 5-under 66.
• Making his Korn Ferry Tour debut via a sponsor exemption, 17-year-old professional Blades Brown (T47/-2) opens in 2-under 70 and is bidding to become the ninth-youngest player to make the 36-hole cut in Korn Ferry Tour history.
• University of North Georgia senior Hughes Threlkeld (T83/E), an amateur competing as a sponsor exemption, opens in even-par 72 in his Korn Ferry Tour debut.