Friday, February 20, 2009

By the Left, it's Mickelson striding clear with a 63

The world's No 1 left-handed golfer, Phil Mickelson, put his lacklustre early-season form behind him with an impressive round of 63 at Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades in California to take a one-shot lead after the opening day of the Northern Trust Open.
Defending champion Mickelson leads fellow American Scott McCarronby by one stroke, although four golfers were still on the course when play was suspended due to darkness. They will resume their rounds at 10.45am local time.
"It was a good start and I feel like I'm back on the right track," said Mickelson. "I felt much better with the putter and my short game was as good as it's been. I hit a lot of good shots around the greens to save strokes."
Dustin Johnson, Jim Furyk, Luke Donald, KJ Choi, John Merrick, Dean Wilson and Andres Romero are a further two shots back on five under.
ALL THE FIRST-ROUND SCORES
Par 71
*First-day play was halted due to darkness with four players still to finish.
63 Phil Mickelson
64 Scott McCarron
66 Dustin Johnson, John Merrick, Jim Furyk, Dean Wilson, K J Choi (Kor), Andres Romero (Arg), Luke Donald (Eng)
67 Kirk Triplett, Paul Azinger, Todd Hamilton, Tommy Armour III, Fred Couples, Jeff Klauk, Kevin Na, Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Brandt Snedeker, Briny Baird, D.J. Trahan
68 Steve Stricker, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa), Charley Hoffman, Retief Goosen (Rsa), Chris DiMarco, Woody Austin, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Ben Curtis, Steve Elkington (Aus), Rich Beem, Bo Van Pelt, Brandt Jobe, Carl Pettersson (Swe), Tim Clark (Rsa), Ryan Moore
69 Brian Davis (Eng), Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Brendon De Jonge, Pat Perez, Jeff Quinney, Oliver Wilson (Eng), Bubba Watson, Chez Reavie, Brian Bateman, Hunter Mahan, Will MacKenzie, Michael Allen, Bill Haas, Jimmy Walker, Marc Turnesa, Jason Gore
70 Michael Letzig, Vaughn Taylor, Brian Gay, Soren Hansen (Den), David Duval, John Mallinger, Justin Leonard, Mike Weir (Can), Brad Adamonis, Vincent Johnson, Graeme McDowell (NIrl), Joe Ogilvie, Matt Kuchar, Peter Lonard (Aus), Charlie Wi (Kor), Kenny Perry, Richard S Johnson (Swe), John Rollins, Robert Allenby (Aus), Trevor Immelman (Rsa), Mark Calcavecchia, Cameron Beckman, Rocco Mediate, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn), Johnson Wagner, Jonathan Byrd
71 Nick Watney, Nick O'Hern (Aus), Tim Wilkinson (Nzl), Steve Pate, Ernie Els (Rsa), Stephen Ames (Can), Nicholas Thompson, Stuart Appleby (Aus), John Senden (Aus), Steve Lowery, Aaron Baddeley (Aus), George McNeill, Jeff Maggert, Mathew Goggin (Aus), Troy Matteson, Scott Verplank
72 David Berganio jun, Kevin Sutherland, Heath Slocum, Charles Howell III, Chad Campbell, Bob Estes, Vijay Singh (Fij), Ben Crane, Martin Laird (Sco), Bryce Molder, Jerry Kelly, Eric Axley, Angel Cabrera (Arg), Tom Pernice Jnr., Cliff Kresge, Mark Wilson, Padraig Harrington (Irl)
73 Jin Park (Kor), Tim Herron, Zach Johnson, Lucas Glover, Steve Flesch, Harrison Frazar, Ricky Barnes, Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn), Daniel Chopra (Swe), Nathan Green (Aus), Steve Marino, J B Holmes, Ken Duke, Corey Pavin, Jason Bohn
74 J J Henry, Bart Bryant, Ryan Palmer
75 David Morland IV (Can), Jeff Overton, Tim Petrovic, Parker McLachlin, Kevin Streelman, Alex Cejka (Ger)
76 Billy Mayfair, Tom Lehman, James Nitties (Aus), Matt Bettencourt
77 Brad Faxon
79 Jim Gormley

Labels: ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

Copyright © Colin Farquharson

If you can't find what you are looking for.... please check the Archive List or search this site with Google