McGinley and Orr share lead in
KLM Open with six-under 64s
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Ireland's Paul McGinley and Scot Gary Orr took advantage of calm early conditions to share the first round lead at the KLM Open in the Netherlands.
Both fired six under par 64s to be one ahead of a group which includes defending champion Darren Clarke, McGinley's fellow Dubliner Peter Lawrie, Australian Matthew Millar and Spain's Jorge Campillo.
McGinley, captain of the Britain and Ireland side in next month's Vivendi Trophy, has high hopes of re-igniting his career.
The 42 year old has fallen outside the top 200 in the World Rankings and is 130th on The Race to Dubai.
"The season's been flat," said McGinley, runner-up to Clarke on the same course 12 months ago. "I've not played well enough - no excuses.
“I think the reason I enjoy playing in Holland is because the courses suit me. You’ve got to work the ball, and your course management really comes into play.”
His day promised to be even better when he stood seven under and three clear after 12 holes, having already made five birdies and a 20 foot eagle putt.
But the 2005 Volvo Masters champion - that was his last victory - bogeyed the short eighth, his 17th, and Orr caught him by also playing the back nine in 30.
The Helensburgh golfer, now 42 as well, has to go back to 2000 for his last success and has not had things easy since then.
Orr lost his European Tour card five years ago, then suffered recurring back problems and had to fight for his future again at the start of last season.
Finishing joint second in The European Open in May brought him back to the fore and at 129th in the world he is now Scotland's highest-ranked player.
“I’ve not played for about four weeks,” revealed Orr. “So it’s been quite a long lay-off, but I’d played a long stretch of tournaments leading up to that, so I probably needed a break. I didn’t touch a club for a couple of weeks, then worked on a few areas which I felt needed addressing, such as my posture and balance.
“I feel I’m getting back into the groove now, and I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.”
Clarke grabbed seven birdies and felt he would have been out in front but for "a couple of stupid schoolboy errors".
The first plugged in a bunker and the second led to him taking a penalty drop away from a bush.
Lawrie came back from an opening bogey for a matching 65, while double Masters Tournament champion Jose Maria Olazábal, suffering from more rheumatic pains, was two under with one to go, but double bogeyed the 418 yard ninth just like Colin Montgomerie did - and just like Welshman Bradley Dredge did after reaching six under.
Play was suspended for an hour late in the day because of a storm and on the resumption Scot Callum Macaulay came in with a 66 to be only two behind. Another Scot on the four-under-par mark was the 1999 Open champion, Paul Lawrie.
Robert-Jan Derksen gave the home fans something to cheer when he produced a hole-in-one at the par three 11th, finding the cup with his seven iron tee shot on the way to a level par 70.
FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 70
64 Gary Orr, Paul McGinley
65 Jorge Campillo (Spa), Matthew Millar (Aus), Darren Clarke, Peter Lawrie
66 Phillip Price, Kenneth Ferrie, Peter Hedblom (Swe), Callum Macaulay, Shane Lowry, Paul Lawrie, Jamie Donaldson, Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Wade Ormsby (Aus), Bradley Dredge
67 Carlos Del Moral (Spa), Garry Houston, Damien McGrane, Gareth Maybin, Klas Eriksson (Swe), Simon Dyson, Markus Brier (Aut), Oskar Henningsson (Swe)
68 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Andrew Coltart, David Lynn, Mark Brown (Nzl), Simon Khan, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Alexandre Rocha (Bra), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Barry Lane
69 James Kingston (Rsa), Rafael Echenique (Arg), John Bickerton, Simon Wakefield, Robert Rock, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Michael Jonzon (Swe), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Richard Bland, Richie Ramsay, Stuart Davis, Ulrich Van Den Berg (Rsa), Jeppe Huldahl (Den), Zane Scotland, Alan McLean, Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Terry Pilkadaris (Aus), Richard Green (Aus), Mark Foster, Chris Doak, Peter O'Malley (Aus)
70 Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Joakim Haeggman (Swe), Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), John Mellor, Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Danny Willett, Jurien Van der vaart (Ned), Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa), Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor), Miles Tunnicliff, Sam Little, Christian Cevaer (Fra), Magnus A Carlsson (Swe), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Stuart Manley, Marc Cayeux (Zim), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Ross McGowan, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe)
71 Jonathan Caldwell, Alvaro Velasco (Spa), Floris De Vries (Ned), Joost Luiten (Ned), Benn Barham, Sion Bebb, Stephen Leaney (Aus), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha), Graeme Storm, Tadd Fujikawa (USA), Iain Pyman, Chapchai Nirat (Tha), Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Roope Kakko (Fin), Chris Wood, Shiv Kapur (Ind), Scott Arnold (Aus), Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Lee Slattery, Richard Kind (Ned), Rolf Muntz (Ned), Marcus Higley, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned), Guido Van Der Valk (Ned), Mark Mouland
72 Ake Nilsson (Rsa), David Howell, Scott Drummond, Ruben Wechgelaer (Ned), Gary Lockerbie, David Drysdale, Sven Struver (Ger), Alexander Noren (Swe), Marc Warren, David Dixon, Mark Reynolds (Ned), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Santiago Luna (Spa), Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa), Pablo Martin (Spa)
73 Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Jules De vries (Ned), David Horsey, Wil Besseling (Ned), Brett Rumford (Aus), Taco Remkes (Ned), Tim Sluiter (Ned), Michael Curtain (Aus), Thomas Levet (Fra)
74 Sven Maurits (Ned), Christian Nilsson (Swe), Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Robert Dinwiddie, Branden Grace (Rsa), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Sam Walker, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Phillip Archer, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
75 Pelle Edberg (Swe), Steven O'Hara
76 John E Morgan, Gary Murphy, Colin Montgomerie, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Spa), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Reinier Saxton (Ned), Anthony Snobeck (Fra)
77 Ronald Stokman (Ned), Seve Benson
78 Jan-Willem Van Hoof (Ned), Scott Barr (Aus), Stephen Dodd, Willem Vork (Ned), Marcel Siem (Ger), Oliver Fisher
79 Alastair Forsyth, Michael Hoey
80 Marco Ruiz (Par), Thomas Detry (Bel)
KLM Open with six-under 64s
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Ireland's Paul McGinley and Scot Gary Orr took advantage of calm early conditions to share the first round lead at the KLM Open in the Netherlands.
Both fired six under par 64s to be one ahead of a group which includes defending champion Darren Clarke, McGinley's fellow Dubliner Peter Lawrie, Australian Matthew Millar and Spain's Jorge Campillo.
McGinley, captain of the Britain and Ireland side in next month's Vivendi Trophy, has high hopes of re-igniting his career.
The 42 year old has fallen outside the top 200 in the World Rankings and is 130th on The Race to Dubai.
"The season's been flat," said McGinley, runner-up to Clarke on the same course 12 months ago. "I've not played well enough - no excuses.
“I think the reason I enjoy playing in Holland is because the courses suit me. You’ve got to work the ball, and your course management really comes into play.”
His day promised to be even better when he stood seven under and three clear after 12 holes, having already made five birdies and a 20 foot eagle putt.
But the 2005 Volvo Masters champion - that was his last victory - bogeyed the short eighth, his 17th, and Orr caught him by also playing the back nine in 30.
The Helensburgh golfer, now 42 as well, has to go back to 2000 for his last success and has not had things easy since then.
Orr lost his European Tour card five years ago, then suffered recurring back problems and had to fight for his future again at the start of last season.
Finishing joint second in The European Open in May brought him back to the fore and at 129th in the world he is now Scotland's highest-ranked player.
“I’ve not played for about four weeks,” revealed Orr. “So it’s been quite a long lay-off, but I’d played a long stretch of tournaments leading up to that, so I probably needed a break. I didn’t touch a club for a couple of weeks, then worked on a few areas which I felt needed addressing, such as my posture and balance.
“I feel I’m getting back into the groove now, and I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.”
Clarke grabbed seven birdies and felt he would have been out in front but for "a couple of stupid schoolboy errors".
The first plugged in a bunker and the second led to him taking a penalty drop away from a bush.
Lawrie came back from an opening bogey for a matching 65, while double Masters Tournament champion Jose Maria Olazábal, suffering from more rheumatic pains, was two under with one to go, but double bogeyed the 418 yard ninth just like Colin Montgomerie did - and just like Welshman Bradley Dredge did after reaching six under.
Play was suspended for an hour late in the day because of a storm and on the resumption Scot Callum Macaulay came in with a 66 to be only two behind. Another Scot on the four-under-par mark was the 1999 Open champion, Paul Lawrie.
Robert-Jan Derksen gave the home fans something to cheer when he produced a hole-in-one at the par three 11th, finding the cup with his seven iron tee shot on the way to a level par 70.
FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 70
64 Gary Orr, Paul McGinley
65 Jorge Campillo (Spa), Matthew Millar (Aus), Darren Clarke, Peter Lawrie
66 Phillip Price, Kenneth Ferrie, Peter Hedblom (Swe), Callum Macaulay, Shane Lowry, Paul Lawrie, Jamie Donaldson, Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Wade Ormsby (Aus), Bradley Dredge
67 Carlos Del Moral (Spa), Garry Houston, Damien McGrane, Gareth Maybin, Klas Eriksson (Swe), Simon Dyson, Markus Brier (Aut), Oskar Henningsson (Swe)
68 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Andrew Coltart, David Lynn, Mark Brown (Nzl), Simon Khan, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Alexandre Rocha (Bra), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Barry Lane
69 James Kingston (Rsa), Rafael Echenique (Arg), John Bickerton, Simon Wakefield, Robert Rock, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Michael Jonzon (Swe), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Richard Bland, Richie Ramsay, Stuart Davis, Ulrich Van Den Berg (Rsa), Jeppe Huldahl (Den), Zane Scotland, Alan McLean, Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Terry Pilkadaris (Aus), Richard Green (Aus), Mark Foster, Chris Doak, Peter O'Malley (Aus)
70 Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Joakim Haeggman (Swe), Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), John Mellor, Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Danny Willett, Jurien Van der vaart (Ned), Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa), Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor), Miles Tunnicliff, Sam Little, Christian Cevaer (Fra), Magnus A Carlsson (Swe), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Stuart Manley, Marc Cayeux (Zim), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Ross McGowan, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe)
71 Jonathan Caldwell, Alvaro Velasco (Spa), Floris De Vries (Ned), Joost Luiten (Ned), Benn Barham, Sion Bebb, Stephen Leaney (Aus), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha), Graeme Storm, Tadd Fujikawa (USA), Iain Pyman, Chapchai Nirat (Tha), Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Roope Kakko (Fin), Chris Wood, Shiv Kapur (Ind), Scott Arnold (Aus), Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Lee Slattery, Richard Kind (Ned), Rolf Muntz (Ned), Marcus Higley, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned), Guido Van Der Valk (Ned), Mark Mouland
72 Ake Nilsson (Rsa), David Howell, Scott Drummond, Ruben Wechgelaer (Ned), Gary Lockerbie, David Drysdale, Sven Struver (Ger), Alexander Noren (Swe), Marc Warren, David Dixon, Mark Reynolds (Ned), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Santiago Luna (Spa), Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa), Pablo Martin (Spa)
73 Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Jules De vries (Ned), David Horsey, Wil Besseling (Ned), Brett Rumford (Aus), Taco Remkes (Ned), Tim Sluiter (Ned), Michael Curtain (Aus), Thomas Levet (Fra)
74 Sven Maurits (Ned), Christian Nilsson (Swe), Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Robert Dinwiddie, Branden Grace (Rsa), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Sam Walker, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Phillip Archer, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
75 Pelle Edberg (Swe), Steven O'Hara
76 John E Morgan, Gary Murphy, Colin Montgomerie, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Spa), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Reinier Saxton (Ned), Anthony Snobeck (Fra)
77 Ronald Stokman (Ned), Seve Benson
78 Jan-Willem Van Hoof (Ned), Scott Barr (Aus), Stephen Dodd, Willem Vork (Ned), Marcel Siem (Ger), Oliver Fisher
79 Alastair Forsyth, Michael Hoey
80 Marco Ruiz (Par), Thomas Detry (Bel)
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