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| August 9, 2003 | Saturday | Jumadi-us-Sani 10, 1424 |
Love grabs lead
DENVER (Colorado), Aug 8: Davis Love shot a spectacular 9-under-par 63 on Thursday to take a handy lead after the first round at the International.
Love reeled off 10 birdies and one bogey to pick up 19 points in the modified Stableford format at Castle Pines.
He was five points ahead of Charles Howell and seven in front of Bob Tway and Jonathan Kaye.
Some of the players did not complete the round due to a weather delay of nearly two hours.
Greg Norman, who played with Love, was impressed by what he saw. bad tee shot, one bad wedge and one bad 6-iron. I couldn’t hit it or putt it much better.”
Howell, who played in the easier morning conditions, shot a flawless 7-under 65 for 14 points.
“Any time you go off early here, you need to make a bunch of birdies,” he said.
Among the other big names, Mike Weir compiled nine points, Phil Mickelson eight and Ernie Els four.
First round scores (the tournament uses the modified Stableford scoring format):
19 Davis Love III
14 Charles Howell III
12 Bob Tway, Jonathan Kaye
11 John Rollins
10 Chris Riley
9 Steve Lowery, Mike Weir, Phillip Price, Geoff Ogilvy, Stuart Appleby
8 Chris DiMarco, Phil Mickelson, Heath Slocum, Greg Chalmers
7 David Sutherland, Robert Allenby, Kent Jones, Paul Casey
6 Kirk Triplett, Briny Baird, Cameron Beckman, Bob Burns, J.J. Henry, Greg Norman.
HAVRET ON TOP
COPENHAGEN: Gregory Havret kept France on top of the Nordic Open leaderboard on Friday by following compatriot Raphael Jacquelin’s first-day 62 with a 63 in the second round for a two-stroke lead.
However tournament favourites, Thomas Bjorn and Colin Montgomerie moved into contention with Montgomerie shooting an eight-birdie 65 to move to within four strokes of Havret, while Bjorn’s 69 took him five behind the leader.
Leading scores:
131 Gregory Havret (France) 68 63
133 David Gilford 66 67, David Lynn 67 66, Patrik Sjoland (Sweden) 69 64
134 Jonathan Lomas 69 65, Kevin Na (South Korea) 70 64, Andrew Raitt 66 68, Philip Archer 65 69, Tobias Dier (Germany) 67 67, Raphael Jacquelin (France) 62 72, Brian Davis 66 68 135 Andrew Coltart 66 69, Peter Lawrie (Ireland) 69 66, Ian Poulter 68 67, Colin Montgomerie 70 65, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 65 70
136 Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 67 69, Stephen Gallacher 71 65, Philip Golding 67 69, Peter Jespersen (Denmark) 68 68—AFP
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