2024 Charles Schwab Challenge scores, takeaways: Tony Finau, Brian Harman just off the pace after Round 1

It's a condensed leaderboard after 18 holes of play in Fort Worth

A new-look Colonial Country Club produced old-time scoring in the first round of the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge. Playing firmer and faster as the day progressed, Colonial played to an average of just about 1 over, with those players off in the morning wave receiving the easiest of the conditions.

Charley Hoffman tops the congested leaderboard thanks to a 5-under 65 with a number of heavy hitters close behind him, including Tony Finau. Fresh off a strong performance last week at Valhalla, where his putter proved uncooperative, Finau leaned on that very club en route to his 4-under 66 on Thursday.

"I think right out of the gate I made a 60-foot birdie putt, and I think it kind of got me under way," Finau said. "The golf course is quite a bit different than it's been years in the past, and so a little bit unfamiliar, I think, with how maybe it's going to bounce and how it's going to play, but with the 4-under round I thought that was a really nice start."