DOUGHERTY IN GOOD NICK AT END OF FIRST
DAY IN US OPEN AT OAKMONT

Young Nick Dougherty from England put together the major round of his career so far to lead on two-under-par 68 at the end of the first day in the US Open championship at Oakmont Golf Club.
He is one shot ahead of Angel Cabrera (Argentina) with Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spain) and Bubby Watson, the leading American, joint third on 70.
Martin Laird and Colin Montgomerie, the two Scots professionals in the field, both had 76s.
Richie Ramsay, playing with Tiger Woods and defending champion Geoff Ogilvy as holder of the US amateur championship, had a 78.

ALL THE FIRST-ROUND SCORES

68 Nick Dougherty
69 Angel Cabrera (Arg)
70 Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa), Bubba Watson
71 Tiger Woods, Jason Dufner, Anders Hansen (Den), Lucas Glover, Ben Curtis, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Fred Funk, Peter Hanson (Swe), J J Henry, Vijay Singh (Fij), Jim Furyk, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Olin Browne, Brandt Snedeker, Pablo Martin, Justin Rose
72 David Toms, Boo Weekley, Craig Kanada, Tim Clark (Rsa), Shingo Katayama (Jpn), Ian Poulter, Marcus Fraser, Tom Pernice, Lee Westwood, Carl Petterson, Aaron Baddeley, Stewart Cink
73 Arron Oberholser, Kirk Triplett, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa), Tom Byrum, Graeme McDowell, Michael Campbell (Nzl), Lee Janzen, Michael Putnam, Trevor Immelman (Rsa), Ernie Els (Rsa), Jon Mills (Can), Padraig Harrington, Stephen Ames (Can), Hunter Mahan, Anthony Wall, Sean O'Hair, Chad Campbell, Rich Beem, Scott Verplank, Camilo Villegas, Joey Sindelar, Andrew Buckle, Jeff Brehaut
74 Jerry Kelly, Vaughn Taylor, Woody Austin, Harrison Frazar, Rhys Davies, Kenneth Ferrie, Nathan Green (Aus), Mike Weir (Can), Ken Duke, Ryuji Imada (Jpn), John Kelly, Luke Donald, Stuart Appleby (Aus), DJ Brigman, Tripp Isenhour, Kevin Sutherland, Anthony Kim, Phil Mickelson, Jeff Sluman, Darron Stiles
75 Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Johan Edfors (Swe), Justin Leonard, Bob Estes, John Rollins, Joe Durant, Robert Allenby (Aus), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Mark Harrell (a), Jeev Milkha Singh, Davis Love, Charl Schwartzel, Steve Stricker
76 Jason Kokrak, Pat Perez, Zach Johnson, Retief Goosen (Rsa), Colin Montgomerie, Chris DiMarco, Nobuhiro Masuda (Jpn), Ricky Barnes, Martin Laird, Soren Kjeldsen, Dean Wilson, Charles Howell III, Adam Scott, Nick O'Hern
77 Robert Karlsson (Swe), Geoffrey Sisk, Mathew Goggin (Aus), KJ Choi (Kor), Kyle Dobbs, Tom Gillis, Johnson Wagner, Joe Daley, Luke List, Brett Wetterich, Paul Casey
78 Christian Cevaer (Fra), John Koskinen, Richie Ramsay, Sam Walker, Paul Goydos, Todd Rosetti, Adam Spiers, Tim Petrovic, Brett Quigley, Ryan Moore, Tori Tanaguchi, Kaname Yokoo, Shaun Micheel
79 Nick Watney, Stephen Marino, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Andy Matthews, Todd Fischer, Michael Block, Trip Kuehne, Frank Bensel, Chris Condello (a), Eric Axley, Henrik Stenson, Steve Marino
80 Chris Stroud, Jason Allen, Lee Williams, Martin Ureta (a)
81 Philip Pettitt, Michael Berg, Todd Hamilton, Allen Doyle, Rod Pampling
82 Jeff Golden, Warren Pineo, Alex Prugh
84 Ryan Palmer, Steve Elkington (Aus), Miguel Rodriguez
85 Jacob Rogers
86 Mike Small