After struggling with his game for weeks, Arjun Atwal seemed to have captured his old form at least for the day with a six-under 64.

The performance saw him in second place after the first round of the US Bank Championship in Milwaukee's Brown Deer Park Golf Course.

The Indian was three shots behind leader Corey Pavin, who at one stage with eight-under 26 for the front nine looked set for a sub-60 score.

Pavin ended with nine-under 61 in the tournament he won back in 1986.

Starting at the first tee, Atwal birdied the second and then added three more in a row from sixth to eighth to turn in four-under. Two more birdies on 13th and 14th came before he dropped a shot on 15th.

But he made up on 18th with a birdie that saw him finish at six-under.

Atwal has struggled this season with many missed cuts and just one top-10 finish, at AT & T Pebble Beach in February.

Last week's tied 17th place lifted him a little but he is still 126th on the Money List and needs to be inside the top-125 to keep his card for next season.

Atwal, who led the Tour's putting statistics last year, is 88th this season and this is the major reason for his slump.

Pavin birdied his first six holes, before paring the seventh. Then he added birdies on eighth and ninth and turned in eight-under.

But he managed just one more birdie on 16th. At one stage, Pavin looked set for a 59, a score that only Al Geiberger (1977), Chip Beck (1991) and David Duval (1999) have achieved on the PGA Tour.