Long hitting Lincoln Tighe has opened the Emirates Australian Open with a brilliant round of -5 66 in the wind to take the lead at the course they call The Australian today.
Tighe is ranked #1022 in the world so this was one of his best tournament rounds in a tough hot wind with temperatures hovering at 40*c. He won NSW PGA Championship last year and plays most of his golf on the Australasian Tour, although he has reached the final stage of the Web.com Tour school in the United States, where he intends to be playing next year.
The Australian played incredibly tough with a strong north-westerly that had the scoring average well above 74 and only one hole averaged under par, the par-five 14th which played downwind.
Hometown man Matt Jones who is a member here, is his closest challenger after a -4 67 in the tougher afternoon conditions while Geoff Ogilvy, Todd Sinnott and Taiwanese amateur Chun-An Yun are a further shot back at -3 68.
Ogilvy played alongside world #1 and defending champion Jordan Spieth who opened with a steady if unspectacular E 71, while the other headliner Adam Scott, now #12 in the world, started his day with a birdie at the first, but faltered with double bogeys at the seventh and ninth to also shoot 71.
Bryan Angus
Bryan Angus
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