Min Woo and Baddeley make a promising start to the PGA tournament

Lipsky leads by one stroke ahead of Scots Martin Laird and Patton Kizzire, while Mark Hubbard, Kevin Dougherty, Wilson Furr, Kevin Streelman and Joel Dahmen are tied for third place at five under par each.

The Procore Championship is the first of eight events on the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Fall calendar, which helps determine players' eligibility for the 2025 season.

To keep their tour card, players must finish the fall in the top 125 in the overall standings. A finish between 126th and 150th gives players conditional status next year.

Lee and Baddeley are tied for ninth place in the tournament. Baddeley had six birdies and two bogeys, while West Australian Lee had five birdies and his only blemish was on the par-4 sixth hole.

Baddeley is currently 152nd in the standings and fighting for his card, while Lee sits comfortably in 60th place.

One stroke behind them is his compatriot Jeffrey Guan, who is in 22nd place.

Lipsky needs all the help he can get as he began the week as No. 163 on the roster.

After most of his birdie putts came from within 10 feet, he sank a 12-foot putt on the par-5 18th hole to finish seven under par.

Hubbard has had a memorable week so far, and not necessarily for the right reasons. He was fully qualified for the Procore Championship, but forgot to register in time, and then decided to try to play his way into the field via Monday's qualifier.

On Monday, he played the best round of the day to fight his way into the field. On Thursday, he made nine birdies with one bogey – and a triple bogey on the par-3 17th hole, where his tee shot hit the water and it took him five shots to get to the green.

“Golf is impossible,” Hubbard said, according to PGATour.com. “I'm just a little bit better at accepting things, and I think that showed on Monday and on my back nine today after that triple.”

Notable names include defending champion Sahith Theegala and Tom Hoge, who started with three under par and 69 strokes, while Wyndham Clark shot 70 and Max Homa shot 71.

These four players have already secured a place in the top 50 of the FedEx Cup for next season.

Theegala and Homa are California natives who have won the last three tournaments in Napa together.