Buick Invitational starts at Torrey Pines

Villegas leads by three with a nine-under 63

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Colombian Camilo Villegas fired a nine-under-par 63 to take the lead after the first round of the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines Golf Course on Thursday.
A winner of two events last year including the Tour Championship, Villegas is three shots ahead of Davis Love III and Aaron Baddeley with Stuart Appleby, Jeff Overton and Robert Garrigus at four under.
A group of nine players sit at three under, just ahead of three-time winner Phil Mickelson who carded an opening round 70.
Reigning Open and US PGA champion Padraig Harrington was at three under at the turn until carding a bogey and double-bogey on his back nine before a birdie at the last returned the Irishman to one under.
Harrington began his year with a fifth place finish at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship before having two non-malignant melanomas removed from near his right eye less than two weeks ago.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
Torrey Pines GC, South & North Courses in San Diego, California
Par 72
North Course:
63 Camilo Villegas (Col)
66 Aaron Baddeley (Aus), Davis Love III
68 Robert Garrigus, Jeff Overton, Stuart Appleby (Aus)
69 Nick Watney, Ricky Barnes, Brian Bateman, Ben Crane, Lucas Glover, Harrison Frazar, Jason Day (Aus)
70 Kent Jones, Jonathan Kaye, Gregor Main, Matthew Jones (Aus), D.A. Points, Brian Vranesh, John Rollins, J J Henry, Bob Heintz, Briny Baird
71 Retief Goosen (Rsa), Anthony Smith (Aus), Tag Ridings, Courtland Lowe, Jeff Klauk, Bob Tway, Jarrod Lyle (Aus), Michael Allen, Kevin Stadler, Aaron Watkins, Brett Quigley, John Huston, Marc Turnesa, Jesper Parnevik (Swe), Padraig Harrington (Irl)
72 Aron Price (Aus), Rodney Pampling (Aus), Chris Riley, Steve Allan (Aus), Webb Simpson, Joe Durant, Arjun Atwal (Ind), Jay Williamson, Glen Day, Rick Price, Gregory Casagranda
73 Peter Tomasulo, Dudley Hart, Chris Stroud, Arron Oberholser, Bart Bryant, Colt Knost, Tim Petrovic, Greg Chalmers (Aus), James Driscoll, Josh Anderson
74 Spencer Levin, Charles Warren, Bill Lunde, John Merrick, Darron Stiles, John Mallinger, Kevin Larsen, James Oh (Kor), Tyler Aldridge
75 Brad Adamonis, Notah Begay III, David Mathis, Martin Laird (Sco), Scott Piercy, Brandt Snedeker, Nicholas Thompson
78 Troy Kelly, Greg Kraft
79 Ryan Moore
South Course:
69 Mathew Goggin (Aus), Scott Sterling
70 Phil Mickelson, Nathan Green (Aus), Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Jason Dufner, Luke Donald (Eng), Greg Owen (Eng), Jason Gore
71 Charley Hoffman, George McNeill, Dean Wilson, Bubba Watson
72 Bill Haas, Paul Goydos, Charles Howell III
73 Pat Perez, J.B. Holmes, Alex Cejka (Ger)
74 Brendon De Jonge, Patrick Sheehan, Scott McCarron, Lee Janzen, Ted Purdy, Woody Austin, Todd Hamilton, Parker McLachlin, Matt Bettencourt, Fred Couples, Kevin Streelman, Dustin Johnson, Hunter Mahan, Marc Leishman (Aus), Troy Matteson
75 Charlie Wi (Kor), Leif Olson, Tom Lehman, Tom Pernice jun.
76 Rory Sabbatini (RSA), Marco Dawson, John Senden (Aus), David Berganio jun, Gary Woodland, Ben Curtis, Chez Reavie, Daniel Chopra (Swe), Jimmy Walker, Johnson Wagner
77 Y. E Yang (Kor), Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Casey Wittenberg, Kevin Sutherland, Carl Pettersson (Swe), Tommy Gainey, Matt Weibring
78 Paul Stankowski, Wil Collins, Cliff Kresge, Peter Lonard (Aus), Steve Marino, Brandt Jobe, Scott Gutschewski, Rich Beem, Dennis Paulson, Carlos Franco (Par), Corey Pavin
79 Brad Faxon, Kris Blanks, Tim Parun, Bryce Molder, James Nitties (Aus), Frank Lickliter II
80 Jeff Quinney
81 Brendon Todd, Wes Short jun
82 Billy Andrade, Matthew Borchert
85 Eric Axley