For the second straight week, the PGA Tour was unable to wrap up the opening Thursday round as scheduled. This week, however, weather had nothing to do with play being called due to darkness, as the full field was unable to maneuver through Riviera before the sun went down in Los Angeles. Slow play continues to be a theme through the first seven weeks of the season, and 15 players needing to come back Friday and finish up certainly won’t make it go away.
2014 Northern Trust Open: Dustin Johnson takes first round lead at Riviera
Some big names populate the first page of the leaderboard in LA, paced by America’s best young talent, Dustin Johnson.
Stephen Dunn
Fortunately, the last groups are already through 16 holes, and they’re already scheduled to play in the morning wave so it won’t be too big a problem. J.B. Holmes, one of those with two holes still to finish, is the one player who could chase down first round leader Dustin Johnson. I wrote earlier Friday when he took the morning wave lead into the clubhouse that DJ is clearly the top American talent not named Tiger or Phil right now. He wins at least once a year, and given his second place finish last week at Pebble Beach and his form at Riviera on Thursday, it’s looking like it might come early again in 2014 (technically, he already has a win this “season” with the new PGA Tour’s wraparound schedule in play).
Johnson’s 5-under 66 was done largely by attacking the gettable par-5s at the classic LA layout. He carded birdies at all three of the par-5s, and made just one bogey, at the extremely difficult par-3 4th, to set the pace. There are 11 others one shot back at 4-under, but only Holmes still has holes left to play. With the poa annua putting surfaces freshened up and rolling better in the morning, it’s possible that Holmes jumps up to join DJ at 5-under. Even if he does, however, DJ should still be the favorite heading into the weekend.
Here are your first round scores from Riv:
| Place | Player | Score | Thru | Round 1 |
| 1 | Dustin Johnson | -5 | F | 66 |
| T2 | Robert Garrigus | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Francesco Molinari | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Scott Stallings | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Charley Hoffman | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Matt Jones | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Brian Harman | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Blake Adams | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Jimmy Walker | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Sang-Moon Bae | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | Charlie Beljan | -4 | F | 67 |
| T2 | J.B. Holmes | -4 | 16 | |
| T13 | Jim Furyk | -3 | F | 68 |
| T13 | Cameron Tringale | -3 | F | 68 |
| T13 | Brendan Steele | -3 | F | 68 |
| T13 | Keegan Bradley | -3 | F | 68 |
| T13 | Rickie Fowler | -3 | F | 68 |
| T13 | Pat Perez | -3 | 17 | |
| T19 | William McGirt | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Richard H. Lee | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Kevin Stadler | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Charl Schwartzel | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | K.J. Choi | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Lee Westwood | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Harold Varner III | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | James Driscoll | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Matt Every | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Jason Kokrak | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Ryan Moore | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Angel Cabrera | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Marc Leishman | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | George McNeill | -2 | F | 69 |
| T19 | Ricky Barnes | -2 | 17 | |
| T19 | Bryce Molder | -2 | 16 | |
| T35 | Charlie Wi | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Graham DeLaet | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Hunter Mahan | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Harris English | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Justin Rose | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Ben Curtis | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Jhonattan Vegas | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Scott Brown | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Justin Leonard | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | David Lingmerth | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Hideki Matsuyama | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | David Hearn | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Victor Dubuisson | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Jim Renner | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | David Lynn | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Greg Chalmers | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Morgan Hoffmann | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Webb Simpson | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Bubba Watson | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Jason Dufner | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | J.J. Henry | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Billy Hurley III | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Martin Laird | -1 | F | 70 |
| T35 | Aaron Baddeley | -1 | 17 | |
| T59 | John Senden | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Bo Van Pelt | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Luke Guthrie | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Fred Funk | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Ernie Els | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Brian Gay | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Robert Allenby | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Davis Love III | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Mike Weir | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Ken Duke | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Scott Piercy | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Daniel Summerhays | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Kevin Chappell | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Brendon Todd | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Aaron Goldberg | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Michael Putnam | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Trevor Immelman | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | James Hahn | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Freddie Jacobson | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Gonzalo Fdez-Castano | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | John Huh | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Kevin Na | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Jason Gore | E | F | 71 |
| T59 | Josh Teater | E | 17 | |
| T59 | Thorbjorn Olesen | E | 17 | |
| T59 | Tim Wilkinson | E | 16 | |
| T85 | Troy Matteson | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Brendon de Jonge | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Bill Haas | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | John Merrick | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Ian Poulter | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Lucas Glover | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Stuart Appleby | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Steven Bowditch | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Martin Flores | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Jordan Spieth | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Fred Couples | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Kevin Streelman | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Jonathan Byrd | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Ben Crane | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Nicolas Colsaerts | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | Paul Goydos | 1 | F | 72 |
| T85 | John Mallinger | 1 | 17 | |
| T85 | Jason Allred | 1 | 16 | |
| T103 | Stewart Cink | 2 | F | 73 |
| T103 | Retief Goosen | 2 | F | 73 |
| T103 | Y.E. Yang | 2 | F | 73 |
| T103 | Max Homa | 2 | F | 73 |
| T103 | Will MacKenzie | 2 | F | 73 |
| T103 | Bubba Dickerson | 2 | 16 | |
| T109 | Briny Baird | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Spencer Levin | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Justin Hicks | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Matt Kuchar | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Geoff Ogilvy | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Louis Oosthuizen | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Charles Howell III | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Woody Austin | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Erik Compton | 3 | F | 74 |
| T109 | Hudson Swafford | 3 | 16 | |
| T119 | Joost Luiten | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Kyle Stanley | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | David Toms | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | John Rollins | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Padraig Harrington | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Chesson Hadley | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Brian Davis | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Russell Knox | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Ted Potter, Jr. | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Carl Pettersson | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Vijay Singh | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Nicholas Thompson | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | Ryo Ishikawa | 4 | F | 75 |
| T119 | D.H. Lee | 4 | 17 | |
| T119 | John Peterson | 4 | 17 | |
| T134 | Johnson Wagner | 5 | F | 76 |
| T134 | Derek Ernst | 5 | F | 76 |
| T134 | Andres Romero | 5 | F | 76 |
| T137 | Jeff Maggert | 6 | F | 77 |
| T137 | Brian Stuard | 6 | F | 77 |
| T137 | Scott Langley | 6 | F | 77 |
| T140 | Russell Henley | 7 | F | 78 |
| T140 | Tommy Gainey | 7 | F | 78 |
| 142 | Steve Holmes | 10 | 16 |
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