By Jeremy Harness

After about a month-long break, the PGA Tour was back in the swing of things on Thursday.

This week, Silverado Resort and Spa is holding its first tour event since 1980, when it hosted the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, and the event itself has its most notable field in quite some time.

In addition to defending champ and U.S Ryder Cup participant Jimmy Walker, but other recognizable names in this year’s event include former FedEx Cup champion Brandt Snedeker as well as Ryder Cup players Hunter Mahan, Matt Kuchar and Lee Westwood.

Making his PGA Tour debut this week is Max Homa, who played his collegiate Golf at Cal and spent last season on the Web.com Tour, which is considered to be the minor leagues of the PGA Tour. Another Cal grad in this week’s field is James Hahn, who is best known for his “Gangnam Style” dance following a birdie in the 2013 Phoenix Open.

So far, though, there are no big names on the leaderboard after the tournament’s first day, but there was plenty of good golf to be seen.

Andres Gonzalez and Sang-Moon Bae currently share the first-round lead by going six under par.

Meanwhile, Martin Laird is in third place all by himself after carding a five-under 67, while Brooks Koepka, who held the 54-hole lead in last year’s Open before falling to Walker, is tied for fourth with eight others with a score of four under.

Walker, on the other hand, had quite a rough opening round, as he finished Thursday with a three-over 75 and certainly has a lot of work to do if he hopes to make the cut and earn the right to play into the weekend.

He parred the first 13 holes of the opening round, but then he ended up three of the last five holes to find himself outside of the projected cut line.

Hahn is in the same category, as he struggled mightily on Thursday with a five-over round of 77.