Trevor Cone, Stuart Macdonald Tied for the First-Round Lead at -9 (Round 1 Notes)

Trevor Cone (T1/-9)

• Cards a bogey-free 6-under 29 on the back nine to open in 9-under 62, tying his career-low round on the Korn Ferry Tour (2024 Veritex Bank Championship/Round 2)
• Holds his second lead/co-lead in a Korn Ferry Tour event (previous: 2022 AdventHealth Championship/Won)
• Owns one top-25 in four previous appearances at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron (2024/T12)
• Stands No. 68 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List with four made cuts in 18 starts, including a season-high finish of solo third at The Panama Championship
• Two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner (2018 Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae, 2022 AdventHealth Championship) and two-time Korn Ferry Tour graduate (2022, 2024)
• Played two seasons on PGA TOUR Canada (2016, 2017) prior to earning Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time ahead of the 2018 season
• Played four seasons at Virginia Tech (2011-15), where he earned a 2014 All-America Third Team honor and captured co-medalist honors at the 2015 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship

 
Stuart Macdonald (T1/-9)

• Birdies nine of his final 12 holes (Nos. 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18) to card 9-under 62, his career-low score in his 353rd career round on the Korn Ferry Tour
• Holds his second lead/co-lead in a Korn Ferry Tour event (previous:2026 Panama Championship/finished T16)
• Owns one made cut in three previous starts at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron (2025/T58)
• Stands No. 85 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List with eight made cuts in 19 starts, highlighted by a T10 at the Evans Scholars Invitational
• Earned full status for the 2026 season with a No. 43 finish on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List; he recorded a career-high finish at the 2025 Tulum Championship at PGA Riviera Maya, where he forced a playoff with a hole-out birdie on the 72nd hole of regulation and fell to Bryson Nimmer on the second playoff hole
• Finished No. 11 on the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Points List, but moved to No. 10 on the final 2024 PGA TOUR Americas Eligibility Points List (after Frederik Kjettrup resigned his membership) and earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the 2025 season
• Previously played three seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour (2018, 2020-21, 2022), one season on PGA TOUR China (2019), two seasons on PGA TOUR Canada (2017, 2023), and one season on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica (2023)
• Played four seasons at Purdue University (2012-16)

 
Additional Notes

• Korn Ferry Tour winner and 2024 Korn Ferry Tour graduate Thomas Rosenmueller (3rd/-8) stands inside the top 10 through 18 holes for the second time this season (T6/Evans Scholars Invitational/finished T25)
• Hunter Eichhorn (T4/-7), who stands No. 8 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List and leads the Tour with eight top-10s, stands inside the top five through 18 holes for the fifth time this season (most recent: T4/BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX/finished T17)
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Julian Suri (T4/-7), who tied the lowest 9-hole score in Korn Ferry Tour history with an 8-under 27 on the back nine in the first round of the 2025 Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron, stands inside the top five through 18 holes for the second time in what is his 63rd career start on Tour (previous: T2/2025 Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron/finished T7)
• Two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner and 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year Justin Suh (T4/-7) cards an opening round of 64 or lower for the third time this season (62/The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantis Paradise Island/finished T44; 64/Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health/MC)