Daily Wrap-up: Round 1, Crowne Plaza Invitational

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FORT WORTH, Texas -- David Toms shot a bogey-free 8-under 62 to share the first-round lead at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial with Chez Reavie on Thursday, quickly rebounding four days after losing a playoff at THE PLAYERS Championship.

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Fowler great, nearly historic
Reavie coming back strong
Toms' momentum continues
De Jonge rebounds with 64
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"It was one of those days where the hole just looked big," Toms said. "This round certainly helps me get past what happened last week at the end. I needed to get off to a good start."

After forcing a playoff with K.J. Choi at TPC Sawgrass with a rare birdie at the 18th hole, Toms missed a short par putt at the famed No. 17 island hole in the playoff that would have extended play.

At Hogan's Alley, Toms was tied after one round with Reavie, who bettered his career-best score by two strokes.

It was Toms' best score in 429 rounds -- since a career-best 61 at the Sony Open in Hawaii in January 2006. That was the last of his 12 PGA Tour victories.

The 62s by Toms and Reavie matched the lowest 18-hole scores on the PGA TOUR this season, and were the best for an opening round.

Rickie Fowler shot a 63, missing a chance to tie the tournament record after his approach on his final hole, the 407-yard No. 9, hit the green and spun back into the water. He closed with a double-bogey 6 in a round that included an eagle, eight birdies and a three-putt bogey from 6 feet at the par-3 16th.

Fowler made a 20-foot eagle putt on the par-5 first hole and was 8 under over an eight-hole stretch before hitting his tee shot at his final hole left of a bunker into the rough before his penalized approach. And he still had a 29 on the front side.

"It's a sorry way to finish the round, but I hit it really well, putted well," Fowler said. "A 29 with a double (bogey) is not too bad. ... I'm excited to be playing well this week and kind of draw off the good out there today. A 63 to start off with is pretty awesome."

Brendon de Jonge, Stewart Cink, Brian Gay, Nathan Green and Charlie Wi shot 64s, a stroke better than Rod Pampling, Mark Wilson and John Senden. Wi was the only of the top 11 scorers who played in the afternoon, when more wind made conditions tougher.

Toms shot 31s on both nines at Colonial, starting on the back and wrapping up both sides with long birdie putts. His 27-foot putt at No. 18 started a stretch of three consecutive birdies, and he punctuated his round with a 29-foot birdie at the ninth hole.

Though he hit only six of 14 fairways, Toms needed just 24 putts.

"It was one of those days where I saw the lines. I had a lot of putts that barely broke right, barely broke left," he said. "I had a lot of uphill-type putts where you could be aggressive. It's just one of those days where everything seemed to go right."

Exactly what the 44-year-old Toms needed playing close to his Louisiana home at one of his favorite tournaments after last week.

Reavie, the 2008 Canadian Open winner, is making a comeback from reconstructive surgery on his right knee last year, when he matched his career-best round of 64 at the HP Byron Nelson Championship in May before being diagnosed with a second meniscus tear in his knee.

"It's just great to be out there," Reavie said. "It feels great. It swells up some, but it's not from the golf. It's from the walking. I wake up the next day and feel great. It's much better than it was."

Though he made the cut in six of his first 10 tournaments this season while playing on a major medical exemption, Reavie has finished inside the top 40 only once and needs a big check soon. He needs to make $464,707 over this and his next two tournaments to maintain his full PGA TOUR exemption for the rest of this season.

The $6.2 million purse at the Colonial includes $1.116 million for the winner, $669,600 for second place and $421,600 for third.

Colonial CC: Thursday

EASIEST HOLE TOUGHEST HOLE The par-5 1st hole was the easiest with a Thursday scoring average of 4.683. EAGLES: 2 BIRDIES: 49 PARS: 62 BOGEYS: 13 OTHERS: 0 The par-4 5th hole was the toughest with a Thursday scoring average of 4.135. EAGLES: 0 BIRDIES: 13 PARS: 88 BOGEYS: 20 OTHERS: 5

About the leaders

• Toms' 62 represents the best opening-round of his career on the PGA TOUR, topping the 63s he posted to start the 1992 Kemper Open and 2000 Bob Hope Classic. • Toms is third in first-round scoring average on TOUR (69.10) and shot 66 at the Wells Fargo Championship and at THE PLAYERS Championship in the first round the last two weeks. • Toms' 62 is just one shy of his career-low round set at the 2006 Sony Open in Hawaii -- a third-round, 9-under 61 en route to the winner's circle and the last of his 12 PGA TOUR wins. He also shot an 8-under 62 during the third round of the 2001 HP Byron Nelson Championship (finished T11). • Toms' previous-best round this season was a 66, set on five occasions and most recently during the first round of THE PLAYERS Championship. • Toms is making his 11th start of the year and is coming off a playoff loss to K.J. Choi at THE PLAYERS Championship -- the 14th runner-up finish of his career. He is No. 22 on the FedExCup points list, with three top-10s (2nd-THE PLAYERS, T3-Arnold Palmer Invitational, T5-Mayakoba Golf Classic). • Toms is seeking to win at Colonial one week after dropping a playoff at THE PLAYERS. In 2000, Phil Mickelson lost in a playoff to Jesper Parnevik at the HP Byron Nelson Championship and then went on to win at the Colonial the following week. • Toms is making his 14th start at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, with a runner-up finish in 2001 among his four top-10 finishes. • This marks the 11th time in Toms' career he has held at least a share of the first-round lead, most recently at the 2011 Mayakoba Golf Classic (finished T5). His only victory after holding the first round lead/co-lead came at the 2001 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill. • Chez Reavie's 62 betters his previous-best round on the PGA TOUR by two strokes. He carded 64s on six occasions and most recently during the second round of the 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship (finished T63). • Reavie is making his 11th start of the season, with six made cuts and a T11 at the Transitions Championship his lone top-25 finish. • This is Reavie's 11th ROUR start of the year. Coming into the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, he has earned $209,276 in 2011 after earning $112,994 a year ago. Reavie is playing this season on a Major Medical Exemption (reconstructive surgery on his right knee) and has this tournament and two others to earn $464,707 to match the $786,977 that Troy Merritt earned in 2010 to finish No. 125 on the final money list. Should he do so, he would play the remainder of the season fully-exempt off of the Top 125 Category. Otherwise, he'll play with Past Champion status in the Reordered Category. • Reavie is making his third start at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial (T64-2008, T71-2009). • This marks the second time Reavie has held the lead/co-lead on TOUR. He was among a group of seven players at 6-under 65 after the first round of the 2008 RBC Canadian Open, eventually carrying that lead on to his only PGA TOUR victory. • Reavie is making his 89th career start on the PGA TOUR, with three top-10 finishes (1-2008 RBC Canadian Open, T5-2008 Bob Hope Classic, T10-2009 Wyndham Championship).