Wells Fargo Championship 2016: Thursday Leaderboard Scores and Highlights

Steve Wheatcroft and Andrew Loupe set the pace through 18 holes at the 2016 Wells Fargo Championship on Thursday.   

They hold a one-shot lead over Anirban Lahiri at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Wheatcroft and Loupe teed off in the same group, which made their battle for first place all the more entertaining. Wheatcroft looked to be in the driver’s seat before Loupe birdied No. 17 to earn a share of the lead.

Loupe was the more consistent of the two, failing to card a single bogey and reaching the green in regulation on 13 holes. He set an impressive pace for himself, going five under through the front nine alone. The pace was unsustainable, though, and he cooled off a bit over the remainder of the round.

Wheatcroft, on the other hand, was excellent for the most part but had a few blemishes on his scorecard, namely bogeys on Nos. 2 and 14. The good far outweighed the bad, though, which tends to happen when a golfer picks up two eagles in the same round.

Ryan Baroff of DailyOverlay.com wasn’t the only person surprised to see the 38-year-old surging up the leaderboard:

Wheatcroft tied for lead after making his 2nd eagle. pic.twitter.com/wQwjqIw1Dh

— Ryan Baroff (@RBaroff427) May 5, 2016

Lahiri nearly made it a three-way tie for first. He was already done by the time Wheatcroft and Loupe were wrapping up, and had he birdied either 17 or 18, he would have ended the day atop the leaderboard. Back-to-back birdies on Nos. 15 and 16 put Lahiri …

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