He started his round with birdies on the first three holes.
“The first hole I made a 40-footer down the hill. Two was probably 25, 30 feet pin high. Three was like, pin high, but about 30 feet right and I made that,” Meyer said. “I finally woke up and the putter got a little colder.”
Hodges, 15, will be a sophomore at Mountain Brook High School this fall. He started his round on the back nine and birdied 11, 12 and 13 — then said he missed his shortest birdie putt all day, from 2½ feet, at No. 14. He added another birdie at No. 16.
One of his few mistakes came when he went in the trees right at No. 18 and took a double bogey. He got a shot back with a birdie at No. 1.
“You want to hit in the fairways. The rough is pretty thick here,” Hodges said.
No. 18 also dinged Scott, who made seven birdies and three bogeys. Scott drove into the left rough and couldn’t get up and down for par on the final hole.
“It’s a tough pin. It’s very tucked,” Scott said. “The green is superfast on that side.”
Still, he was proud of the front-nine 32.
“That was the fun part,” Scott said as a smile spread across his face.
Four golfers shot 66 in the afternoon — Andrew Spaulding of Spring, Texas, who played in the final group of the day, Auburn signee Eshleman of Vestavia Hills, who has played in every Future Masters since he was 10, last year’s tournament runner-up Ford of Peachtree Corners, Ga., and Hart of Naples, Fla., whose hole-in-one was hardly his only great shot of the day.