Aaron Wise plays as a single, shoots first-round 65 to vault up leaderboard

The Tour Championship typically consists of 30 players, which makes for nice, easy twosomes every day at the PGA Tour’s season finale.

However, Will Zalatoris being forced to withdraw earlier in the week due to injury means one player will head to the first tee every morning to play 18 holes by himself.

That player was Aaron Wise in the opening round at East Lake, and the former Oregon Duck made the most of his roughly three hours on the golf course.

After opening with five straight pars, the world No. 40 birdied five of his final 13 holes and didn’t record a bogey on the day. His 5-under 65 vaulted him inside the top 10 as he finished his day with the leaders making their way through the…