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LYTHAM ST. T.Y. Hilton Jersey . ANNES, England—Unlike
the guys in charge of the weather forecast, Adam Scott got everything just about
right Thursday in the British Open. Scott was determined not to take himself out
of contention in the opening round at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, as he had
done in the first two majors this year. Caddie Steve Williams gave him a pep
talk to play the first hole like it was the last one. Even more inspiration came
from the international flags posted above the massive grandstand down the left
side of the first tee. They werent flapping. They were sagging. In surprisingly
calm conditions, Scott raced out to the lead and almost into the record book. He
stood on the 18th tee needing a birdie to break the major championship scoring
record, and instead made bogey to settle for a 6-under 64. It matched the lowest
Open round ever at Royal Lytham and gave the Australian a one-shot lead over
Paul Lawrie, Zach Johnson and Nicolas Colsaerts. “It was just like a nice walk
in the park today,” Scott said. “And it was not what weve experienced in the
practice rounds. Im sure theres going to be some weather elements thrown at us
the next three days, so just going to have to knuckle down to handle that. But
Im confident. My ball striking is good. I think I can get it around no matter
what the conditions are.” The proof was in limp flags and red numbers on the
scoreboards. Scott was among three dozen players with rounds in the 60s, a group
that included Tiger Woods. Trying to end a four-year drought in the majors,
Woods raced out to four birdies in seven holes to take the early lead, only to
settle into a series of pars and one adventure through grass up to his knees for
a lone bogey that gave him a 67. In his third Open at Lytham, Woods said it was
as easy as he had ever seen it play. “The wind wasnt blowing, and were backing
golf balls up,” Woods said. “Thats something we just dont see.” Lawrie won his
British Open in nasty conditions at Carnoustie in 1999, and the Scot showed he
could handle the calm weather with equal aplomb. He ran off three birdies over
the last five holes. Johnson, who won the 2006 Masters in the wind and cold at
Augusta National, flirted with a major record-tying 63 until a bogey on the 17th
hole. Colsaerts, the big hitter from Belgium, holed out with an 8-iron on the
481-yard second hole for eagle and added four birdies for his 65.
Brandt Snedeker was another shot behind at 66. “We had a little wind early on
the front nine, but it kind of calmed down the second half,” Snedeker said
“Thats the best Americans are going to see over here.” Rory McIlroy was panned
last summer at Royal St. Georges for saying he prefers calm conditions, so maybe
this was more to his liking. He wound up in the group at 67 after a wild day
filled with great shots, bad luck and a bump on the head for a 16-year-old
spectator standing in the wrong spot. McIlroy was at 3 under with four holes
remaining when his drive on the 15th hole sailed to the right of the fairway. It
plunked the teenager in the head and caromed farther to the right. The teen was
OK. The ball settled a few inches beyond the out-of-bounds stakes near a
corporate tent, sending McIlroy back to the tee to play his third shot. McIlroy
gave the lad a glove on which he wrote “Sorry” with a frown face and “Rory.” “He
could have headed it the other way,” McIlroy joked later. “It would have been on
the fairway.” He bounced back from that double bogey by driving the 336-yard
16th hole and two-putting for birdie, then making birdie on the final hole to
join guys like Ernie Els, Masters champion Bubba Watson, Graeme McDowell and
Steve Stricker, who followed an eagle from the 13th fairway with a double bogey
on the next hole. One sign of the easy scoring was that no one shot in the 80s.
That hasnt happened in the opening round of the British Open since 1998 at Royal
Birkdale, where conditions also were benign. Woods opened with a 65 that year,
only to get blown away in bad weather the next round. Perhaps bad weather is on
the way. The forecast hasnt been nearly as accurate as Scott was with his tee
shots on Thursday—sunshine when it calls for rain, clouds when the forecast
is for dry spells. Els and his caddie, Ricci Roberts, figured out immediately
that dead calm translates to low scores. “Its on today,” he said. “I said to
Ricci, I might not have the chance again. You never know how the weather is
going to be.” But even in such weather suited for low scores, Lytham still
required tee shots in the fairway. It still demanded good shots. And it was a
struggle for some. Lee Westwood, despite a birdie-birdie start, hit a bunker
shot across the third green to take double bogey, and had to play a left-handed
shot out of the back end of a pot bunker on the 13th hole as he staggered to a
73. Luke Donald made a sloppy bogey—his only one of the round—on the final
hole for a 70. Justin Rose played in the same group as Woods and already was
nine shots behind after eight holes. He rallied for a 74. Lytham was there for
the taking—as long as the tee shots found the fairway. Phil Mickelson, a
runner-up at Royal St. Georges last year, went from the left rough to the right
rough on the par-5 seventh to make double bogey on the easy hole at Lytham. On
the next hole, he tried to hit wedge out of a pot bunker and it got snagged in
high grass just over the lip. A small search party nearly didnt find it, and
Mickelson had to take a penalty shot to drop it back in the fairway. “I putted
poorly today and I drove it horrific and the chipping was below average,” he
said. Scott had no such issues. After an early bogey when he got out of position
on the third hole, he warmed up with birdies on the sixth and seventh holes, and
then ran off three straight birdies on the back nine, starting with the 598-yard
11th hole that he reached in two shots. Royal Lytham was changed to a par 70
this year, and with a birdie on the 16th that put him at 7 under, Scott needed
one more birdie to become the first player with a 62 in the majors. There have
been 25 rounds of 63. “I was waiting to use the bathroom going to the 17th tee
and I did a look at the leaderboard and realized it was a par 70,” he said. “And
I also probably then realized that I wasnt going to be the guy to shoot 62. Its
one of those things that you dont want to go through your mind, thinking about
your final score and stuff like that.” He slightly pulled a 2-iron off the tee
on the 18th, played out of the thick rough short of the green and failed to save
par. No matter. His 64, which matched Tom Lehmans third-round score in 1996 when
he went on to win his only major. Scott can only hope for the same outcome. His
18 worldwide wins include The Players Championship, the Tour Championship, and
the Australian Open. He has reached as high as No. 3 in the world. He is missing
the kind of trophy that defines great players. “Ive won a couple of tournaments
most years, which is a good habit to have because its getting harder and harder
to win out here,” Scott said. “And Im looking for a win this year. But I would
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