Ross Drummond makes solid start to

US Senior PGA Championship

Ross Drummond matched the par of 70 to be high up the leaderboard at the end of the first round of the United States Senior PGA Championship at Canterbury Golf Club, Beachwood, Ohio.
Fellow Scots Sandy Lyle and Bill Longmuir had scores of 74 and 77 respectively.
Americans Scott Hoch and Tom Purtzer are setting a hot pace with four-under 66s.
Germany's Bernhard Langer, a two-time winner this year and the US Champions Tour's top money-winner, had a 68 and was alone in third.
"I would like to think that I'm one of the players to beat," Langer said. "I've had a pretty good season on the Champions Tour last year and I had a really good start this year again. So I would like to think of myself as being one of those guys that has a chance to win."
England's Mark James had a 69.
Only 10 players broke par and 12 others shot even-par 70 in warm and sunny weather with blustery wind at the 88-year-old layout in suburban Cleveland.
Hoch, who started with a pair of birdies, was three shots clear of the field at 6 under as he stepped to the tee on the 227-yard, par-3 17th. Bogey-free to that point, his wind-blown 3-iron ended up in the right front bunker and he failed to get up and down to a pin located on a back shelf. Then on the difficult, uphill par-4 18th, from a perfect lie he flew the green with his second shot but was able to save bogey with a two-putt from 50 feet.
A two-time Masters champion, Langer was content to rely on his arrow-straight drives to avoid the heavy rough bordering the narrow fairways on the tree-lined course. He hit 10 of 14 fairways and 13 of 18 greens in regulation.
"I'll take that most days, especially on a course like this where it's not that easy to hit the fairways and the greens," he said.
FIRST ROUND
Par 70
Players from US unless stated.
66 Scott Hoch, Tom Purtzer.
68 Bernhard Langer (Ger).
69 John Morse, Mark James (Eng), Joey Sindelar, Larry Mize, Dana Quigley, Tom Kite, Gary Hallberg.
70 Ross Drummond (Sco), John Jacobs, Dave Stockton, Jeff Sluman, Dan Forsman, Tim Simpson, Hale Irwin, Denis Watson (SAf), Butch Sheehan, Tim Simpson, Sam Torrance, Jay Don Blake, Ross Cochran.
71 Bruce Fleisher, Jay Haas, Tom Jenkins, Hal Sutton, James Blair, Wayne Grady, Ian Woosnam (Wal), Fred Funk, Robert Gibbons, John Aubrey, Gil Morgan, James Mason, Bob Gilder, Chris Starkjohan.
Selected scores:
72 Tom Watson, Bob Cameron (Eng), Ken Green, J C Snead, Juan Quiros (Spa), Mark McNulty (Ire), Lanny Wadkins, Fuzzy Zoeller, Allen Doyle, Costantino Rocca (Ita).
73 Ben Crenshaw, Greg Norman (Aus).
74 Sandy Lyle (Sco), Nick Price (Zim), Roger Chapman (Eng).
75 Tom Lehman.
77 Jimmy Heggarty (NIr), Nick Job (Eng), Bill Longmuir (Sco).
78 Bob Charles (NZ), Peter Mitchell (Eng).