BROADHURST AND ROSE SET THE
PACE WITH 66s IN BMW PGA
CHAMPIONSHIP AT WENTWORTH

England's Justin Rose and Paul Broadhurst were the two pacesetters at the start of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, both coming in with six-under-par rounds of 66. Broadhurst, the 41-year-old former Ryder Cup player who has not had a top-10 finish all season, was in the sixth group out and made the most of the ideal early conditions by picking up five birdies in the first eight holes.
Then, later in the day, Rose, pictured above, making his first appearance since coming fifth in the Masters last month and then suffering more back trouble, grabbed eight birdies to make it a tie at the top.
Broadhurst, who narrowly missed out on a return to the European Ryder Cup team last year after a 15-year gap last year, did bogey the ninth, but further birdies came on the 11th and long 17th.
They were one shot ahead of a group which included Essex's Simon Khan, runner-up to David Howell in the event 12 months ago, but perhaps still best known as the player fined a record £8,000 for slow play in Ireland two years ago.
Only two behind the leaders is the world number five Ernie Els, the man who has toughened up the West Course in the last two years and who lives alongside it.
Els actually started with a bogey after pulling his drive into the rough and he also double-bogeyed the 449-yard ninth, but his front nine also contained birdies at the second, fourth and fifth and then had five more birdies on the inward half.
The South African is a six-time winner of the World Match Play on the Wentworth lay-out, but never of the European Tour's flagship event.
Irish Open winner Padraig Harrington returned a tidy 69 to be only three shots off the pace.

Colin Montgomerie, over one of his favourite courses, came back to form with a two-under-par 70, one ahead of Alastair Forsyth.

Greig Hutcheon (Peterculter), who qualified to play in the PGA event as winner of the PGA Scottish Region Order of Merit, had a bad day. He is bottom of the scoreboard with a 12-over-par 84.

Par 72 (players from GB&I unless stated)
66 Justin Rose, Paul Broadhurst.
67 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Shiv Kapur (Ind), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Simon Khan.
68 Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Yong-eun Yang (Kor), Ernie Els (SAf), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Richard Sterne (SAf), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind).
69 Lee Slattery, Matthew Millar (Aus), Nick Dougherty, Louis Oosthuizen (SAf), Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe), Padraig Harrington.
70 Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Ross Fisher, James Kingston (SAf), Colin Montgomerie, Oliver Wilson, Rafael Echenique (Arg), Angel Cabrera (Arg), Carlos Rodiles (Spa), Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa), Marc Warren, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Andres Romero (Arg), Wen-chong Liang (Chn), Henrik Stenson (Swe), Thomas Levet (Fra)
71 Brett Taylor, Martin Kaymer (Ger), Graeme Storm, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra), Alastair Forsyth, Chapchai Nirat (Tha), Miles Tunnicliff, Richard Bland, Juan Parron (Spa), Christian Nilsson (Swe), Phillip Price, Sam Walker, James Hepworth, Luke Donald, Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Lee Westwood, Mark Foster, Peter O'Malley (Aus)
72 Gary Orr, Christopher Hanell (Swe), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Peter Hedblom (Swe), Gary Marks, Robert Karlsson (Swe), Stephen Dodd, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Simon Thornton, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Christian Cevaer (Fra), Joakim Backstrom (Swe), Mattias Eliasson (Swe), Darren Clarke, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), Ariel Canete (Arg), Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Cesar Monasterio (Arg)
73 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), Steven Jeppesen (Swe), David Park, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Peter Hanson (Swe), Vijay Singh (Fij), Robert Rock, Markus Brier (Aut), Terry Price (Aus), Sandy Lyle, Ian Garbutt, Bradley Dredge, Marcel Siem (Ger), Joakim Haeggman (Swe), Maarten Lafeber (Ned), David Lynn, Paul Casey, Phillip Archer, Ian Poulter, Richard Green (Aus).
74 Garry Houston, David Griffiths, Anders Hansen (Den), Graeme McDowell, Peter Gustafsson (Swe), Simon Wakefield, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Gary Murphy, Alexander Noren (Swe), Andrew Oldcorn, Richard Finch, Paul Lawrie, Thomas Bjorn (Den), Gordon Brand jun, Paul McGinley
75 Anthony Wall, Steve Webster, Johan Axgren (Swe), Kenneth Ferrie, Simon Dyson, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa)
76 Craig Lee, Damien McGrane, Retief Goosen (Rsa), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Benn Barham, Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Andrew Coltart, John Bickerton, Peter Lawrie, Johan Edfors (Swe), Stephen Gallacher, Paul Wesselingh, Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Gregory Havret (Fra)
77 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Anton Haig (SAf), Kyron Sullivan, Jean Van de Velde (Fra), Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha), Scott Drummond, Mardan Mamat (Sin), Daniel Vancsik (Arg), Brett Rumford (Aus), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Simon Edwards, Tom Whitehouse, Barry Lane
78 David Carter, Michael Campbell (NZ), Charl Schwartzel (SAf), Steven O'Hara.
79 Andrew Marshall, Darren Fichardt (SAf).
80 Jon Bevitt, Soren Hansen (Den), Gary Emerson.
81 Mark Pilkington, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra).
83 Richard O'Hanlon.
84 Greig Hutcheon.