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LA JOLLA (California), Feb 8: Matthew Goggin of Australia fired an opening round 64 to take a one-shot lead after round one of the $3.6 million Buick Invitational Golf tournament Thursday.
Despite holding an early lead, Goggin will be well aware that the world’s number one ranked player Tiger Woods lurks just two shots behind him.
British hopeful Luke Donald and Jay Williamson lie in joint second spot after both firing seven-under-par 65s over the par-72 Torrey Pines Golf Course in what is the 50th anniversary of this event.
But they are all looking over their shoulders at Woods, who is looking for his first PGA victory of the young season in his third appearance on the PGA’s ‘West Coast Swing.’
Woods shot an opening round 66, with six birdies and no bogeys, to end the day tied for fourth with Chris Riley.
Scores: 64 Mathew Goggin 65 Luke Donald, Jay Williamson 66 Chris Riley, Tiger Woods 67 Robin Freeman, David Frost, Stephen Gangluff, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Mark O’Meara, Jerry Smith, David Sutherland 68 Paul Goydos, Jay Haas, Jason Hill, Peter Jacobsen, Kent Jones, Skip Kendall, J.L. Lewis, Matt Peterson, Lee Porter, Jeff Sluman, Chris Smith, Tommy Tolles 69 Michael Allen, Rich Beem, David Berganio, Jr., Bart Bryant, Bob Burns, K.J. Choi, John Daly, Scott Dunlap, Brad Elder, Neal Lancaster, Brad Lardon, Steve Lowery, Tim Petrovic, Vijay Singh 70 Stephen Allan, John Cook, Richard Coughlan, Steve Flesch, Tim Herron, Lee Janzen, Michael Long, Shaun Micheel, John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini, Kevin Sutherland, Kaname Yokoo
PORT ELIZABETH (South Africa): Titch Moore made the most of his local knowledge to card an eight-under-par 62 for a two-shot lead after the opening round of the Nashua Masters on Thursday.
The Port Elizabeth professional fired eight birdies in a flawless display over the par-70 Wild Coast CC course to edge ahead of in-from Englishman Justin Rose.
Rose, winner of the Dunhill Championship two weeks ago, claimed the early clubhouse lead after firing four birdies between the seventh and 11th holes.
In all, Rose made seven birdies and a solitary bogey at the 14th in his round of 64.
First round scores: 62 Titch Moore 64 Justin Rose (Britain) 65 Mark Murless, Warren Abery 66 Michael Green, Richard Sterne, Ian Palmer, Ben Barham 67 Doug McGuigan, Steven Parry, Alan McLean, Craig Lile, Leonard Loxton, Derek Crawford 68 Keith Horne, Scott Drummond (Britain), Chris Davison, Bobby Lincoln, Henk Alberts, Mike Lamb, Paul Dwyer, Justin Hobday, Scott Nightingale, Jaco Van Zyl
SYDNEY: Australia’s Andre Stolz took a one-point lead after carding an eight-under-par 65 at the halfway mark of the rain-hit ANZ golf championship in Sydney Friday.
The 29-year-old, who had 11 points from his first round 70, collected eight birdies and an eagle on the par-five 17th hole on Friday at The Lakes to rack up 19 points.
The modified stableford event is co-sanctioned by the European and Australasian Tours.
Second round scores
30 Andre Stolz 11 19
29 Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 10 19
28 Craig Parry 10 18
27 Scott Laycock 11 16
25 Carlos Rodiles (Spain) 10 15
24 Gregory Havret (France) 5 19
23 Geoff Ogilvy 7 16
22 Mathias Gronberg (Sweden) 9 13, Stephen Gallacher (Britain) 10 12
21 Patrik Sjoland (Sweden) 11 10
20 Steve Alker (New Zealand) 7 13, Anders Hansen (Denmark) 9 11
19 David Lynn (Britain) 12 7, Richard Johnson (Sweden) 3 16, Raphael Jacquelin (France) 15 4
18 David Smail (New Zealand) 11 7, Peter O’Malley 9 9, David Gilford (Britain) 7 11, Greg Turner (New Zealand) 10 8
17 Paul Broadhurst (England) 6 11, Anthony Painter 4 13, Matthew Cort (England) 7 10, Jean-Francois Remesy (France) 11 6.—Reuters
