Leading first-round scores on Thursday in the US PGA Tour Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (USA unless noted): 63 - Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) 65 - Harris English, Christiaan Bezuidenhout (RSA), Kim Si-woo (KOR) 67 - Patrick Cantlay, Marc Leishman (AUS) 68 - Rory Sabbatini (RSA), Michael Thompson, Scottie Scheffler, Jason Dufner, Graeme McDowell (NIR), Daniel Berger, Webb Simpson, Jim Herman, Cameron Champ, Nate Lashley, Corey Conners (CAN), Keith Mitchell, Viktor Hovland (NOR), Collin Morikawa afp