DillontDesib posted an update: Rookie Australian golfer Daniel Popovic fired a superb eight-under round of 64 to lead the Australian PGA (Professional Golfers' Association) by two shots after the first round on Thursday.Popovic, teeing off at the 10th, birdied his first four holes,likely fathered by one of her kidnappers.,chanel bags, bogeyed the sixth then strung together five consecutive birdies on the par-72 Palmer Coolum Resort course to top the leader board at the OneAsia co-sanctioned US$1.25 million tournament.He leads compatriot Scott Strange by two shots,chanel outlet, with former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy a shot further back on five-under,truereligionjeansrose, alongside China's Zhang Xinjun and Singapore's Choo Tze Huang.Popovic, 26,truereligionrose, won the Australian qualifying school late last year but took time off from golf after his father became seriously ill with cancer. However, his father urged him to return to the sport and he tuned up for the PGA with a practice round alongside Ogilvy."That was some of the best golf that I have ever played in my life," Popovic said.Zhang, a member of China's national golf squad, said he relished the opportunity to play alongside the leading Australian professionals."I played very well today,chanel bags 2013, but actually I'm carrying a bit of an injury and my shoulder was hurting coming into this tournament, but I felt very relaxed out there," he said."These last two weeks have given us the opportunity to play against the best Australian players, like Adam Scott, but also international stars like Justin Rose,celinebagsrose."I missed the cut (at the Australian Open) last week, but I went to the course at the weekend to watch Tom Watson play,celine handbags. This is a great opportunity for young Asian players to learn from the Western players and competing with them can only help to improve our game,She is the strongest girl I have ever known."Veteran Australian Peter Senior, who became the oldest Australian Open champion at The Lakes last week, kept alive his hopes of a historic "double-double" of winning the Open and PGA in the same year on two occasions when he fired a four-under-par 68.The 53-year-old has won at Coolum twice previously and made five birdies and one bogey to be four shots off the pace.Last year's British Open winner Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland was in joint 19th place after opening with a two-under in a round of four birdies and two bogeys.South Africa's Rory Sabbatini, a six-time winner on the US PGA Tour,who was just called up from the minors.,chanel bags, floundered with a four-over 76 to lie in joint 108th place.Illness forced former world No.1 Greg Norman to withdraw from the tournament after playing just two holes of his first round.Norman, 57, made two bogeys before pulling out because of suspected food poisoning.
AFP - Global Times
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