BARCLAYS SCOTTISH OPEN

The Wizards of Oz in spotlight but

Laird stars on pro home debut

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE

It was a good day for Australia in the golf as well as Test match cricket today.
Left-hander Richard Green leads the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond after a seven under par 64 - and Adam Scott, currently dating tennis star Ana Ivanovic and trying to fight his way out of a slump, is only two behind.
Not so happy, though, was Lee Westwood. His build-up to next week's Open was hit by a chest infection and after struggling to a 73 the former European No 1 said he had been "stupid" to tee off.
Colin Montgomerie could do no better than the same score, but there was still a Scot as well as a Scott on the leaderboard.
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That player was Glasgow-born, but Arizona-based Martin Laird, pictured above, over from the US Tour for his first-ever professional tournament in Europe. Martin stayed on and turned pro in the states after playing the US college circuit for four years as a Colorado State University student.
Laird, watched by proud parents and grandparents, twice chipped in en route to a 65 which put him in joint second place with 42-year-old Irishman Paul McGinley, England's Graeme Storm and Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.
Green first came to global attention back in 1997 when he beat Greg Norman and Ian Woosnam in a play-off in Dubai, but his only European Tour victory since then came in Austria two years ago.
A curling 35-foot putt for eagle on the 13th, his fourth, settled him after he had bogeyed the one before and six birdies followed.
Playing with Westwood were Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter, both wearing tartan trousers. They scored 68 and 69 respectively, while Ernie Els, Darren Clarke and Masters champion Angel Cabrera matched Poulter's round and defending champion Graeme McDowell shot 70.
Sir Nick Faldo, playing his first tournament of the year and also in the coming Open, was two under after seven, but slipped back to a level par 71.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 71

64 Richard Green (Aus)
65 Martin Laird, Paul McGinley, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Graeme Storm
66 Adam Scott (Aus)
67 Nick Watney (USA), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Soren Hansen (Den), Kenneth Ferrie, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), David Drysdale, Ross McGowan, Gregory Havret (Fra)
68 Rodney Pampling (Aus), Retief Goosen (Rsa), Robert Dinwiddie, Paul Waring, Andrew McLardy (Rsa), Brett Rumford (Aus), Rory McIlroy, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha), Paul Lawrie, Mark Foster, Marcus Fraser (Aus)
69 Thomas Aiken (Rsa), Anders Hansen (Den), James Kingston (Rsa), Ross Fisher, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), John Daly (USA), Ernie Els (Rsa), Shane Lowry, Wen-chong Liang (Chn), Markus Brier (Aut), Pablo Martin (Spa), Michael Campbell (Nzl), Marcel Siem (Ger), Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Angel Cabrera (Arg), Darren Clarke, Gary Lockerbie, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Jamie Donaldson, Ian Poulter, Camilo Villegas (Col)
70 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), Gary Orr, Brian Gay (USA), Danny Willett, Anthony Wall, Robert Rock, Alexander Noren (Swe), Niclas Fasth (Swe), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Alastair Forsyth, Miles Tunnicliff, Sam Little, Stuart Appleby (Aus), Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Magnus A Carlsson (Swe), Graeme McDowell, Jason McCreadie, Gareth Maybin, Scott Strange (Aus), Scott Drummond, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), David Lynn, Mark Brown (Nzl), Seve Benson, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Richard Sterne (Rsa), Thomas Levet (Fra)
71 Nick Faldo, Alvaro Velasco (Spa), Damien McGrane, Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Simon Dyson, Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa), Lee Slattery, Boo Weekley (USA), Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Steve Webster, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Nick Dougherty, Paul Broadhurst, Simon Khan, Phillip Archer, Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Tano Goya (Arg)
72 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), David Horsey, Phillip Price, John Bickerton, Simon Wakefield, Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Gary Murphy, Stephen Gallacher, Robert Allenby (Aus), Andres Romero (Arg), David Dixon, Michael Jonzon (Swe), Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Tim Clark (Rsa), Sandy Lyle, Chris Doak
73 Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Christian Nilsson (Swe), Rory Sabbatini (Rsa), David Howell, Colin Montgomerie, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind), Peter Lawrie, Oliver Fisher, Alvaro Quiros (Spa), Peter Hanson (Swe), Callum Macaulay, Stephen Dodd, Michael Hoey, Lee Westwood
74 Hennie Otto (Rsa), Benn Barham, Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Oliver Wilson, Metteo Manassero (Ita), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Anthony Kang (USA), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Peter O'Malley (Aus)
75 Shiv Kapur (Ind), Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Richard Finch, Pelle Edberg (Swe), Bradley Dredge, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind)
76 Anton Haig (Rsa), Marc Warren, Chapchai Nirat (Tha), Terry Pilkadaris (Aus), Nick Ludwell, Johan Edfors (Swe), Barry Lane
77 Daniel Vancsik (Arg), Azuma Yano (Jpn), Jeppe Huldahl (Den)
78 Taco Remkes (Ned)
79 Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe), Peter Hedblom (Swe)
82 Rafael Echenique (Arg)
83 Wallace Booth (am).