World No 5 has a double-figure hole in South African Airways Open

GOOSEN RUNS UP AN 11 ON WAY
TO A 69 AT PORT ELIZABETH

Retief Goosen, pictured right, hot a 69 in the first round of the South African Airways Open at Humewood Golf Club, Port Elizabeth in South Africa today.
Nothing untoward about that, you might say, until you discover that his scorecard included an 11 at the 17th.
The S0uth African, who was leading the field by three strokes at the time, twice his his ball into unplayable lies and after the second occasion he took a drop within two club lengths of where his ball had finished.
However, having dropped the ball, it rolled backwards a few centimetres so Goosen picked it up and dropped again.
He finished with a quadruple-bogey 9 on the par-5 but worse was to follow.
After his round, officials ruled that because the ball landed within two club lengths it was in play and Goosen should not have picked it up.
"By picking the ball up, he needed to replace it to incur only a one-shot penalty. But by dropping it, it became two shots," European Tour official Andy McFee said.
Goosen birdied the 18th to finish with a 69 and was only two strokes behind the leaders at the end of the first day.

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
(Players from GB&I unless stated)
67 Carl Suneson (Spa), Trevor Immelman (Rsa), Ernie Els (Rsa), Andrew Raitt.
68 Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Lee Westwood, Desmond Terblanche (Rsa)
69 Alan McLean, Retief Goosen (Rsa), Gareth Davies, James Kingston (Rsa), Pelle Edberg (Swe), Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe), James Kamte (Rsa).
70 Hennie Otto (Rsa), Ross Fisher, Bradford Vaughan (Rsa), Robert Rock, James Heath, Nico Van Rensburg (Rsa), Edward Rush, Edoardo Molinari (Ita).
71 Adilson Da Silva (Bra), Divan Van Den Heever (Rsa), Benn Barham, Jaco Van Zyl (Rsa), Nic Henning (Rsa), Lee Slattery, Wade Ormsby (Aus), Juan Parron (Spa), Titch Moore (Rsa), Brandon Pieters (Rsa), Steve Basson (Rsa), Garry Houston, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Alvaro Quiros (Spa), Andrew McLardy (Rsa), Daniel Vancsik (Arg), Lee S James, Richard Finch, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Steve Van Vuuren (Rsa).
72 Joakim Backstrom (Swe), Ulrich Van Den Berg (Rsa), Andrew Tampion (Aus), Tony Johnstone (Zim), Andre Cruse (Rsa), Mathias Gronberg (Swe), Johan Axgren (Swe), David Frost (Rsa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Sam Walker, Hendrik Buhrmann (Rsa), Chris Williams (Rsa), Dion Fourie (Rsa), Mark Murless (Rsa), Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa).
73 Chris Swanepoel (Rsa), Branden Grace (Rsa), Nigel Edwards, Warren Abery (Rsa), Warren Bennett, Sam Little, Gregory Havret (Fra), Vaughn Groenewald (Rsa), Desvonde Botes (Rsa), Ian Hutchings (Rsa), Scott Drummond, Gary Lockerbie, Grant Muller (Rsa), Christiaan Basson (Rsa), Derek Crawford, Werner Geyer (Rsa), Keith Horne (Rsa), Justin Walters (Rsa), Richard Sterne (Rsa).
74 David Carter, Merrick Bremner (Rsa), Wayne De Haas (Rsa), Matthew Richardson, Oliver Wilson, Eugene Marugi (Rsa), Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Birgir Hafthorsson (Is), Alexandre Rocha (Bra), Mark Pilkington, Billy Valentyn (Rsa), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Tom Whitehouse
Other scores:
75 Doug McGuigan, Angel Cabrera (Arg).
77 Oliver Fisher.

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