True Thailand Classic 2016: Thursday Leaderboard Scores and Highlights

America's Peter Uihlein leads the field on eight under par after he carded a 64 during the first day of action at the 2016 True Thailand Classic in Hua Hin on Thursday.

The 26-year-old saw only one bogey blot his card through the opening round, and he leads Pelle Edberg by one after the Swede dropped two shots in his last three holes.

Scott Jamieson and Javier Colomo are one shot further back on six under, while nine players sit at five under after 18 holes.

Here is what the leaderboard looks like after Day 1:

#	Nat	Player	Score	R1
1	USA	Peter Uihlein	-8	64
2	SWE	Pelle Edberg	-7	65
T3	ESP	Javier Colomo	-6	66
T3	SCO	Scott Jamieson	-6	66
T5	ENG	Gary Boyd	-5	67
T5	WAL	Rhys Davies	-5	67
T5	ENG	Robert Dinwiddie	-5	67
T5	CHN	Chi-Hsien Hsieh	-5	67
T5	THA	Pariya Junhasavasdikul	-5	67
T5	USA	David Lipsky	-5	67

The full leaderboard can be accessed at the European Tour's official website. 

Thursday Recap

Uihlein started on the ninth at Black Mountain Golf Club and picked up two birdies on his first two holes before handing a shot back with a five at the par-four 12th. 

Further gains on the par-five 13th and threes on the 16th and 17th saw him take 32 for his first nine holes, though, and birdies at one and two made it four shots gained in five holes around the turn.

Back-to-back birdies again at six and seven—the latter thanks to a masterful approach and well-paced downhill putt—saw him finish with an eight-under 64 to tie with the course record, per the European Tour.

Uihlein has made a habit of fast starts lately, having led last month's Perth International after one round and having been tied for second at the same stage of the Maybank Championship Malaysia.

He will hope to now hold the momentum from an excellent round on Thursday and turn it into a triumph come Sunday.

Momentum was exactly what Edberg seemed to lose on his final holes of the first round. His opening 15 were close to perfect, as he stormed to the top of the leaderboard with nine birdies, per the Asian Tour:

A bogey on the seventh—his third-last hole—was no disaster, and it looked as though the worst he could do was end the day in a tie for the lead.

However, he went from one bunker into another on nine and failed to hole a swinging 20-footer for par to drop one shot back from Uihlein at the end of the round.

Edberg will no doubt be kicking himself for dropping from the lead but would likely have taken a 65 had he been offered it before the round started.

Scotsman Jamieson found his groove in emphatic fashion around the turn, as he sunk five consecutive birdies from the 16th—having started on the 10th—and added another at six to finish two shots back.

Meanwhile, local favourite Kiradech Aphibarnrat had a day to forget, finishing with a two-over round of 74 after starting promisingly with three birdies in his first five holes.

The shot of the day came from Australia's Jason Scrivener, who aced the third before going on to record a level-par round of 72, per the European Tour:

Low scoring was the order of the day in Thailand, and a repeat on Friday could make for a tough cut line.

However, the field is strong, and Uihlein will feel little safety in having just a one-shot lead with three days of action still to play.