text: GOLF - SCORES AT WORLD SERIES OF GOLF . AKRON , Ohio 1996-08-22 Scores from the $ 2.1 million NEC World Series of Golf after the first round Thursday at the 7,149 yard , par 70 Firestone C.C course ( players U.S. unless stated ) : 66 Paul Goydos , Billy Mayfair , Hidemichi Tanaka ( Japan ) 68 Steve Stricker 69 Justin Leonard , Mark Brooks 70 Tim Herron , Duffy Waldorf , Davis Love , Anders Forsbrand ( Sweden ) , Nick Faldo ( Britain ) , John Cook , Steve Jones , Phil Mickelson , Greg Norman ( Australia ) 71 Ernie Els ( South Africa ) , Scott Hoch 72 Clarence Rose , Loren Roberts , Fred Funk , Sven Struver ( Germany ) , Alexander Cejka ( Germany ) , Hal Sutton , Tom Lehman 73 D.A. Weibring , Brad Bryant , Craig Parry ( Australia ) , Stewart Ginn ( Australia ) , Corey Pavin , Craig Stadler , Mark O'Meara , Fred Couples 74 Paul Stankowski , Costantino Rocca ( Italy ) 75 Jim Furyk , Satoshi Higashi ( Japan ) , Willie Wood , Shigeki Maruyama ( Japan ) 76 Scott McCarron 77 Wayne Westner ( South Africa ) , Steve Schneiter 79 Tom Watson 81 Seiki Okuda ( Japan )