GOOD START FOR RICHIE RAMSAY IN RUSSIA

Richie Ramsay made a promising start to his professional golf career with a round of 70 to be lying joint 11th going into the second day of the European Tour event - the Russian Open - at Le Meridien Country Club, Moscow.

The first round will not be completed until Friday due to bad weather.

FIRST ROUND

Par 72.
65 Christian Nilsson (Swe)
66 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra)
67 Gary Murphy, Sam Little
68 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), Alexandre Rocha (Bra)
69 Jeppe Huldahl (Den), Sam Walker, Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe), Adam Gee, Sam Osborne
70 Marc Farry (Fra), Jesus Maria Arruti (Spa), Richie Ramsay, Zane Scotland (Gbr), Gareth Davies, Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Richard McEvoy, Simon Lilly (Gbr), David Drysdale, Marcus Higley, Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Peter Fowler (Aus), Philip Golding
71 David Carter, Scott Strange (Aus), Peter Gustafsson (Swe), Kyron Sullivan, Joakim Haeggman (Swe), David Park, Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Peter Lawrie, Carlos Rodiles (Spa), Marc Cayeux (Zim), Lee Slattery, Prom Meesawat (Tha)
72 Simon Robinson, Francisco Cea (Spa), Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Euan Little, Alvaro Salto (Spa), Sven Struver (Ger), Edward Rush, Manuel Quiros (Spa), Chris Wood, Jean Hugo (Rsa), Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Matthew Zions (Aus), Dawie Van der Walt (Rsa), Brett Rumford (Aus), Carl Suneson (Spa), Richard Finch, Martin Maritz (Rsa)
73 Steve Alker (Nzl), Henrik Nystrom (Swe), Steve Webster, Christopher Hanell (Swe), Luis Claverie (Spa), Dimitry Vinogradov (Rus), Terry Pilkadaris (Aus), James Morrison, Alan McLean, Keith Horne (Rsa), Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Ian Garbutt, Simon Hurd
74 Richard Bland, Sean Whiffin, Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor), Sion Bebb, Adrien Mork (Fra), Birgir Hafthorsson (Ice), Jonathan Lomas
75 Robert McGuirk, Garry Houston, Andrew Oldcorn, Tim Milford, Stuart Cage, Marcel Siem (Ger), Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa)
76 Mark Pilkington, Ari Savolainen (Fin), Ben Howlett, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra), David Bransdon (Aus), Alejandro Villavicencio (Gua), Carlos De Corral (Spa)
77 Jose Manuel Carriles (Spa), Simon Nash (Aus), Wade Ormsby (Aus), Chris Rodgers, Gary Birch jr (Ger), Steven O'Hara.
78 Brian Watts (Can), Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Spa), Stuart Little
80 Matt Laasse (USA)
81 Michiel Bothma (Rsa), Lee S James, David Higgins
82 Gregory Bondarenko (Rus)
83 Victor Ostankov (Rus)