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The Masters: Daily Wrap-up, Round 1

Chad Campbell almost tied the Masters record for lowest score on Thursday, but settled for a 65 and the first-round lead on a perfect day for scoring at Augusta National. Jim Furyk, Padraig Harrington and Tiger Woods got off to solid starts, while Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson struggled.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- There aren't many days like this at Augusta National: Sunny and warm, with barely a breeze. Greens nice and soft. Pins stuck in some pretty inviting spots.

A day for going low.

Chad Campbell led the assault on the Masters scoreboard Thursday, challenging the tournament scoring record before bogeys on the last two holes left him with 7-under-par 65.

Campbell began the round with five straight birdies, the best start in Masters history, and ripped off four in a row on the back side to get his score to 9 under. That sent him to the final two holes needing one more birdie to break the tournament record -- a 63 by Nick Price in 1986 and equaled by Greg Norman a decade later.

The magic number was definitely on his mind -- perhaps a little too much. Campbell failed to get up and down from a greenside bunker at No. 17, ending any hopes of breaking the mark, and a three-putt from 50 feet at the 18th cost him another stroke.

"I'm definitely happy with the round I played," he said, "but I'm a little upset with the way I finished."

He had a one-shot lead over Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan, with plenty of others lurking in the 60s. And what about Tiger Woods? The world's No. 1 player teed off in one of the latest groups and plodded through the front nine with an even-par 36.

But Woods began to make his move after the turn, pushing his score to 3 under with three straight birdies at 13 and 14.

Furyk strung together four straight birdies on the back for a score that would have been good enough for at least a share of the opening-round lead in all but one of the last 12 years. On this day, it was just an impressive score with plenty of company.

"It was a day for scoring," said Padraig Harrington, who began his quest to win a third straight major with a 69. "(Club officials) can get the scoring whichever way they want. Today was obviously one of the most generous days ever around Augusta. You've got to feel it's going to get a little bit tougher as we go on the next three days."

At 67 were Japanese star Shingo Katayama, who had never broken 70 in seven previous appearances, and 1987 champion Larry Mize, who's made the Masters cut only once in the last eight years.

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Five notables at Augusta National
Name	Score	Position	Comment
Jim Furyk	6 under	T2	Furyk fired a 66 with a six-birdie, no-bogey first round. He played especially well on the back nine and made four consecutive birdies on Nos. 14-17.
Tiger Woods	2 under	T21	It's his first major since last year's U.S. Open, so all eyes were on Tiger on Thursday. He had two bogeys on the card, but also notched four birdies, including three in a row at Nos. 13, 14 and 15.
Phil Mickelson	1 over	T51	Lefty already owns two Green Jackets, but his bid to capture a third didn't get off to a stellar start. He had three bogeys and two birdies on the card in Round 1.
Geoff Ogilvy	1 under	T28	A two-time 2009 winner and former U.S. Open champion, Ogilvy was one of the favorites as the week began. He shot a respectable 71 on the first day and would have finished higher if not for bogeys on the final two holes.
Padraig Harrington	3 under	T14	Paddy's quest to win a third consecutive major is still in full swing. His first-round card included five birdies and two bogeys.

EASIEST HOLE	TOUGHEST HOLE
The par-5, 575-yard second hole played to a 4.542 average on Thursday. There were 2 eagles, 44 birdies, 46 pars, 4 bogeys and no double bogeys in the first round.	The par-3, 240-yard fourth hole played to a 3.365 average on Thursday. There were no eagles, four birdies, 56 pars, 34 bogeys, 1 double bogey and 1 other in the first round.

QUOTE OF THE DAY	ROUND OF THE DAY
"I just think at a place like this, experience is always a good thing. I think experience is good anywhere, but here maybe even more. But I don't know. We are old guys fighting as best we can." -- Larry Mize, on why he and Greg Norman are still contending after age 50	Chad Campbell's 7-under 65 could have been even lower. He rattled off five birdies in his first five holes, then had four more birdies in a row at Nos. 12-15. The only blemishes on his card came at the 17th and 18th, where he made two bogeys to finish his day.

Even Mize surprised by his 67 to start Masters Week
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM Chief of Correspondents

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The hair is much more salt than pepper now.

Not much else has changed, though. Larry Mize is still the same slender, soft-spoken man from Augusta who beat Greg Norman in a playoff at the 1987 Masters.

C’mon. You remember. And if you don’t, you must not have been watching much TV lately. Nearly every Masters promo showed Mize, wearing that gray-and-purple shirt, as he sprinted around the 11th green after holing that winner of a 140-foot pitch and run.

Both arms are raised over his head as he celebrates with that victory lap.
Norman stands nearby, looking on disconsolately, as he absorbs yet another heartbreaking defeat.

Mize, now 51, turned back the clock at Augusta National on Thursday, shooting 67, which is his lowest score there since the second round of the 2000 Masters. He’s two strokes off the lead -- and three shots ahead of a resurgent Norman, who is now 54.

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Shark shows he's not just on trip down Memory Lane
By Melanie Hauser, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He’s at it again.

Just when we’re ready to say this is Greg Norman’s last stroll down the fairways at the Masters, he up and opens with a 2-under-par-70 that should have been a 67. Maybe a 65.

Missed an 18-inch birdie at the 18th. Missed three or four relatively makeable -- think seven feet or less and factor in Augusta’s greens -- putts in the first 17 holes.

You thinking Birkdale? Deep down, he probably is.

Norman may be 54, but he’s playing like he’s 44. Maybe 34.

He’s sticking to his plan: play solid golf and keep his expectations low. His focus is on making the cut and seeing what he can do.

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High-percentage approach helps Clark go low
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM Chief of Correspondents

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The way Tim Clark sees it, he just played “sensible” golf on Thursday.

The strategy paid off, too. That round of 68 was a career-low for Clark at Augusta National and left the South African firmly entrenched among the leaders during the first round of the Masters.

Clark, who played in the second group of the day, birdied all four of the par 5s, laying up on all four -- a la 2007 champion Zach Johnson -- and relying on precise wedge shots to set the stage. His birdie putts were all inside 8 feet.

“(Augusta National) certainly didn't play to its full length,” Clark said. “ It did not allow me to go for any par 5s, but my wedges have been feeling pretty good lately, and I was able to make four birdies on the par 5s, which is key.

“With the course playing short and the greens being soft, I was pretty much able to keep it on every green. Years gone by, I've had a hard time stopping it from going over the back of the green. Today, I felt like it was a lot easier to score.”

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