2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic scores, takeaways: Akshay Bhatia leads, Rickie Fowler lurks after Round 1

The top of the leaderboard at Detroit Golf Club features some interesting names after the action on Thursday

The leaderboard at the Rocket Mortgage Classic is not full of names as big as the ones that littered the Travelers Championship last weekend, but one of the stars during last week's event continued his great play at Detroit Golf Club on Thursday to lead by one after 18 holes of play.

Akshay Bhatia, who played in the final group with Scottie Scheffler and Tom Kim a week ago, shot an 8-under 64 in Detroit to take that one-shot lead over Taylor Montgomery and Michael Kim. 

The trend is good with Bhatia, who has finishes of T22, T16 and T5 in his last three starts.