Nationwide Tour Championship at Barona Creek
 

John Riegger is at -1 (T40) after today's first round in the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship at Barona Creek Golf Club in Lakeside, California.

The event is limited to 60 of the Nationwide's best and carries the tour's richest purse -- $775,000.

Is that a mistake Lynn! T40 with only 30 in the field?:confused1

Nationwide Tour Championship's Limited Field
 

The mistake was the field limit, and I've corrected my post to read '60' (not 30, as in the PGA TOUR Championship). Good eye, Neil!

Actually, of the Top 60 Nationwide Money Leaders who qualified, only 57 teed off. Two have already earned Exempt Status on the 2008 PGA TOUR (Nick Flanagan and Jay Williamson) and a third, Garrett Willis, is injured.

Why wasn't Jason Day there Lynn?

Aussie Absence
 

From the PGA TOUR's website:

JASON DAY TO MISS CHAMPIONSHIP -- Jason Day's highly-successful year on the Nationwide Tour has come to a premature end. The young Australian who turns 20 on Nov. 12 has not played since missing one of his few cuts in the Mark Christopher Charity Classic in early October. Day withdrew from last week's Miccosukee Championship citing a sore wrist. According to his swing coach and caddie Colin Swatton, he decided not to risk further injury. He is scheduled to meet with a specialist on Wednesday to discuss results from an MRI that was taken last week. Day, who is fourth on the money list, sewed up his PGA TOUR card several weeks ago but was hoping to catch Roland Thatcher at the top of the money list.