Chris Riley hits his tee shot around the eighteenth problem while in the primary spherical associated with The Memorial Tournament brought to you by Nationwide Insurance in the Muirfield Village Golf Club on June 2, 2011 in Dublin, Ohio. Photographer: Scott Halleran/Getty Images
Rory McIlroy taken a new 66 to help enroll in Chris Riley in a very one-shot steer at 6-under par following your first round with tennis verts Memorial Tournament .
Riley have eight birdies and McIlroy had seven at Muirfield Village Golf Club around Dublin, Ohio .
Riley, 37, is usually doing his initial physical appearance seeing that 2002 at the Memorial, your tournament situation hosted through Jack Nicklaus . His singular win within the U.S. PGA Tour came at the particular Reno-Tahoe Open nine decades ago.
It verts recently been a struggle, Riley instructed reporters. I m looking to climb from a hole appropriate now. I performed solid this past year and this also year hasn t happen to be in which great.
Riley provides overlooked that 36-hole reduce for weekend have fun with throughout six of thirteen activities this kind of season, with his lone top-10 finish returning at the Sony Open in Hawaii inside January.
McIlroy, your Northern Irishman, may be the only person outside the U.S. from the leading 20. World No. just one Luke Donald, Players championship successful K.J. Choi connected with South Korea , and past U.S. Open as well as Masters Tournament successful Angel Cabrera with are the particular next-highest-placed international players, with a new wrap to get 22nd spot with 2-under.
McIlroy upon May 3 not too long ago grew to become the particular youngest champion with this trip since Tiger Woods 14 years sooner by simply capturing the particular Quail Hollow Championship which includes a lessons record 10-under-par 62 a couple of a short time bashful involving his or her 21st birthday. The event includes also been renamed that Wells Fargo Championship this kind of year.
DiMarco, Teater Share SecondChris DiMarco and also Josh Teater really are a shot lurking behind the market leaders at 5 under, having , Steve Stricker, in addition to in a party of nine Americans an extra taken back.
Fowler, seeking his first specialized victory to visit having a couple of top-10 surface finishes this kind of season, used this direct with 5 beneath through 15 openings before bogeys on Nos. of sixteen and 17. He birdied this 18th for you to attain 4 under.
England azines Donald, who went on in the No. a single identify from the Official World Golf Ranking having a win this morning for the European Tour ersus British PGA Championship, is a pair of shots prior to Phil Mickelson .
Woods isn t participating in following extracting out of last month utes Players championship using knee plus ankle injuries. Woods, who has fallen to be able to No. 13 inside rankings, possesses enjoyed nine divots given that tying with regard to fourth along at the Masters within April.
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