After the PGA Tour flipped the Memorial and RBC Canadian Open on the schedule, the latter is now the final tune-up for the U.S. Open. While Oakmont looms large on the horizon as one of golf's most difficult tests, players at TPC Toronto were given an opportunity to pile up birdies in bunches in Thursday's first round.

The afternoon wave got the better of the weather draw on Thursday and it showed on the leaderboard, as the 5 under mark that was leading after the morning wave is only good for T9 as we head into Friday. With rain in the morning, they opted to play the ball up, but once the rain stopped and the course began to dry out players were getting the benefit of both roll out and the opportunity to lift, clean and place their ball in the fairways.

That led to some extremely low scor

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