Shane Lowry in battle to make cut at Wyndham Championship

Shane Lowry faces a battle to make the weekend after carding a one-over-par 71 to finish 10 shots adrfit of first-round leader John Huh at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro.

The Offaly man's round began with a double bogey and he dropped four shots in as many holes before bouncing back with an eagle on five.

Only a closing bogey denied him a par finish.

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Huh is the man to catch after five straight birdies and added a long eagle putt to shoot a career-low, nine-under-par 61 to top the leaderboard.

Huh leads South Korea's Sungjae Im by two shots at the PGA Tour's regular-season finale. Peter Malnati and Brandon Wu are tied for third at six-under 64.

Huh, 32, needed a good showing this week at Sedgefield Country Club to ensure his berth into the FedEx Cup Playoffs. He entered the week 111th in the points standings, with 125 qualifying for the first leg. Huh would shoot up to 39th if the tournament ended Thursday.

"I'm actually surprised I'm at the top of the leaderboard, yeah, to be quite honest with you," Huh said. "I didn't really feel my game was there, but it's one of those days where I took advantage of some good shots and good breaks, I think."

Huh made six birdies for a front-nine 29, including five in a row from the fourth. His 10 1/2-foot putt at the par-4 sixth was the only birdie tap outside 10feet.

At the par-5 15th, he drove the green in two and drained a left-to-right eagle putt from 38 feet out before adding his final birdie at No. 17.

"I knew it was going to be a quick one," Huh said of the eagle putt. "I hit a good stroke, hit my line. I was hoping to go and I got lucky that it hit the flagstick and went in the hole."

Im had two eagles on his card, making a 15-foot putt at the par-5 fifth and