Dou's PGA push off to encouraging start

The stakes are high for Dou Zecheng this weekend.

A return trip to the PGA Tour is within his grasp if he can secure a high enough finish at the regular-season-ending Portland Open in Oregon.

A tie for seventh would likely accomplish that, and that's the position Dou was in after the first round of the Korn Ferry Tour's finale. The top 25 players on the points list following this event will gain cards for next season's PGA Tour. There is nothing Dou would like better than to return to the tour he played in 2017-18.