While most of you slept the night away on this frigid February night in most of northern America, Brett Rumford opened his account in defense of his title at the ISPS Handa World Super 6 in the warm sunshine of Perth Australia with a sparkling -8 64 for a two shot lead after round 1.
Fellow Aussie James Nitties and a resurgent Lee Westwood had -6 66 T2 on this Lake Karrinyup CC.
Canadian Austin Connelly is T22 -3 69.
Remember last year, Rumford who is from Perth had lost his playing privileges in 2016 but regained them in stunning style leading after all three days of stroke play and then progressing through four rounds of match play to win his sixth European Tour title.
" I just think there's some golf courses just suit your eye and others don't. It's not always the case but generally you find as a trend that a lot of players go back and play well when they've had a lot of good performances there, and this is one of them"
Too give you an idea of what an international field this is, Thai duo Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Prom Meesawat, Frenchman Sébastien Gros, Australians Wade Ormsby, Jason Scrivener and Gareth Paddison, Malaysian Nicholas Fung, Japan's Daisuke Kataoka and South Korean Yikeun Chang were at -5 67.
Bryan Angus
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