Embarrassing Munich moment

for David Lynn costs him lead

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Matching something Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomerie have done on a golf course would normally delight England's David Lynn - but not what he did in Munich today.
At seven under par after 14 holes Lynn led the BMW International Open. But then, putting from off the green for eagle on the next, he sent it off the other side into a water hazard and finished with a double-bogey 7.
"I felt like putting a noose round my neck and hanging myself up," said the Stoke golfer, who finished the day on five under, one behind Australian Peter O'Malley, South African Anton Haig, Singapore's Mardan Mamat and Argentinian Rafa Echenique.
Montgomerie putted into a lake during the Cannes Open over a decade ago and Woods even more famously did it during the 1997 Ryder Cup at Valderrama.
Lynn, with just one European Tour win in 263 events going back 12 years, added: "I wanted to chip the ball, but there was no grass under the ball, so I had to putt through 20 feet of fringe and just hit it too hard."
He then three-putted the eighth, but came back with a birdie to be in a tie for fifth.
Lynn was far from alone, however, in messing up a promising round. Paul Casey reached five under par, but double-bogeyed the 16th after his pitch spun back in the water and three-putted the par-5 last for another bogey.
While he signed for a two-under 70 - the same as Montgomerie and 50-year-old Bernhard Langer - former Open champion John Daly fell back from four under to level par after double bogeys on the 14th and 16th.
Order of Merit leader Miguel Angel Jimenez, sixth in the US Open on Sunday, had a hat-trick of late birdies for a 69.
Paired with Langer were his young compatriot Martin Kaymer and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, 10th and ninth respectively in the race for Ryder Cup places. Kaymer, despite worries about the health of his mother, returned an impressive 68, but McDowell could do no better than 71.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
66 Anton Haig (Rsa), Rafael Echenique (Arg), Mardan Mamat (Sin), Peter O'Malley (Aus)
67 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Daniel Vancsik (Arg), David Lynn, Mark Foster, Thomas Aiken (Rsa)
68 Alexander Noren (Swe), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Andrew McLardy (Rsa)
69 Anders Hansen (Den), Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Tino Schuster (Ger), Matthew Millar (Aus), Peter Hedblom (Swe), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Carl Suneson (Spa), Iain Pyman, Richard Finch, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Henrik Stenson (Swe), Thomas Levet (Fra)
70 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Bernhard Langer (Ger), Ross Fisher, Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Colin Montgomerie, Pelle Edberg (Swe), John Bickerton, Simon Wakefield, Pedro Linhart (Spa), Gareth Paddison (Nzl), Niclas Fasth (Swe), Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa), Barry Lane
71 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Garry Houston, Shiv Kapur (Ind), David Griffiths, Graeme McDowell, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Max Kramer (Aut), Stephan jr. Gross (Ger), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Gary Murphy, Markus Brier (Aut), Peter Fowler (Aus), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind)
72 Gary Orr, Michael Campbell (Nzl), Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Mark Brown (USA), Rory McIlroy, Stephen Dodd, Michael Jonzon (Swe), Chapchai Nirat (Tha), Benoit Teilleria (Fra), Edoardo Molinari (Ita)
73 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Henrik Nystrom (Swe), Hennie Otto (Rsa), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Scott Drummond, Peter Lawrie, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), Anthony Wall, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe), Lee S James, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Ariel Canete (Arg), Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Bradley Dredge
74 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), Alvaro Velasco (Spa), Damien McGrane, David Frost (Rsa), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Marc Warren, Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Zane Scotland, Niklas Lemke (Swe), Phillip Price, Julio Zapata (Arg), Stephen Gallacher, Paul Lawrie, Dennis Kupper (Ger), Florian Praegant (Aut)
75 Christoph Gunther (Ger), Peter Baker, Andrew Coltart, Marcel Siem (Ger), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Simon Dyson, Sam Little, Simon Khan
76 Marc Farry (Fra), David Drysdale, Sven Struver (Ger), Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe), Pablo Martin (Spa), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Alvaro Quiros (Spa)
77 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Richard Porter (Ger), Gary Birch jr (Ger)
78 Carlos Rodiles (Spa)
80 David Carter, Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Sean Einhaus (Ger)
81 Miles Tunnicliff
83 Rick Kulacz (Aus)