MONTY NOT READY TO THROW IN THE
TOWEL YET: THREE-UNDER-PAR 68
IN FRENCH OPEN FIRST ROUND

Colin Montgomerie is not ready yet to accept being written off - not even after four missed cuts in a row in the majors and an 82 at the US Open two weeks ago.
In his first tournament round since that Oakmont horror show, Montgomerie began the French Open on Thursday with a three-under-par 68 and then took aim at his critics.
Asked if he would like to silence people, presumably those who doubt he will ever challenge for a major again now he has turned 44, the Scot said:
"Yes, there is an element to that. There is one thing to shut everybody up and that's to win. That's the aim - of course it is."
He added: "When I changed [clubs] from Wilson to Callaway after winning the Order of Merit twice people were talking about 'What's that all about?'. The first two rounds in Dubai were 68-63 and that shut everybody up."
Montgomerie went on to six more European Tour money list titles and he has also had five second-place finishes in majors - more than anybody in history without capturing one.
He has not won any tournament now since the Hong Kong Open in December 2005, the second longest barren spell of his entire career, and has fallen from 17th to 48th in the world this year.
"There's nothing better for confidence than a win and I've got to get back there. If I can win before the Open (at Carnoustie in three weeks) that would be fantastic."
Surprisingly high scores by two Scots in the first round in Paris were an 80 by Alastair Forsyth and an 81 by Marc Warren.

FRENCH OPEN FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Le Golf National, Guyancourt, Paris
Par 71. Players GB&I unless stated.
65 James Kamte (Rsa), Kyron Sullivan
66 Christian Nilsson (Swe), Benn Barham, Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Graeme Storm
67 Thomas Levet (Fra)
68 Colin Montgomerie, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Markus Brier (Aut), Damien McGrane, Miguel Angel Martin (Spa), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind), Zane Scotland
69 Gregory Havret (Fra), Anthony Wall, Johan Axgren (Swe), Peter Lawrie, Soren Hansen (Den), Paul McGinley, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Robert-Jan Derksen (Ned)
70 Santiago Luna (Spa), James Kingston (Rsa), Marcus Higley, Ian Poulter, Martin Kaymer (Ger), Oliver Fisher, Gary Murphy, Tom Whitehouse, Thaworn Wiratchant (Thai), Simon Khan, Ariel Canete (Arg), Soren Kjeldsen (Den), David Griffiths
71 David Bransdon (Aus), Lee Westwood, Richard Sterne (Rsa), Christian Cevaer (Fra), Michael Campbell (Nzl), Garry Houston, John Bickerton, Stephen Dodd, Ross Fisher, Juan Parron (Spa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Richard Finch, Gary Orr, Stephen Gallacher, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Paul Lawrie, Graeme McDowell, Thongchai Jaidee (Thai), Benoit Teilleria (Fra), Robert Rock, Edward Rush
72 Mark Pilkington, Sven Struver (Ger), Mardan Mamat (Sing), Phillip Archer, Marcel Siem (Ger), Rafael Echenique (Arg), James Hepworth, David Lynn, Mark Foster, Taichi Teshima (Jpn), Steve Webster, Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Francois Delamontagne (Fra)
73 Kenneth Ferrie, Peter Gustafsson (Swe), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Oliver Wilson, Peter O'Malley (Aus), Peter Hedblom (Swe), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Pelle Edberg (Swe), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Jean-Bapiste Gonnet (Fra), Bradley Dredge, Nick Dougherty, Julien Guerrier, David Park, Patrik Sjoland (Swe)
74 Andrew Tampion (Aus), Matthew Millar, Anders Hansen (Den), Brett Rumford (Aus), Renaud Guillard (Fra), Gary Emerson, Ian Garbutt, Gary Lockerbie, Christopher Hanell (Swe), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Paul Broadhurst, Steven O'Hara, Joakim Backstrom (Swe)
75 David Carter, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa), Richard Bland, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Wade Ormsby (Aus), Adam Frayne, YE Yang (Kor), Simon Dyson, Diego Torne (Spa), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Philip Golding, Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Phillip Price, Shiv Kapur (Ind), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Daniel Vancsik (Arg)
76 Andrew Coltart, Malcolm Mackenzie, James Heath, Cedric Menut (Fra), Eric Moreul (Fra), Laurent Richard (Bel), Julien Foret (Fra)
77 Francois Calmels (Fra), Scott Drummond, Andrew Marshall, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra), Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Adrien Mork (Fra), Raphael Pellicioli (Fra)
78 Jonathan Evans, Carl Suneson (Spa), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Jean Van de Velde (Fra), Lee Slattery, Alexander Noren (Swe)
79 Alexandre Rocha (Bra), Richard Green (Aus), Andres Romero (Arg), Mattias Eliasson (Swe), Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Terry Price (Aus)
80 Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Simon Hurd, Alastair Forsyth, Julien Quesne (Fra)
81 Marc Warren
82 Simon Wakefield, Miles Tunnicliff
83 Anton Haig (Rsa), Sam Walker, Andrew McLardy (Rsa), Ignacio Garrido (Spa)
85 Cesar Monasterio (Arg)
89 Philip Walton