Gleneagles, Aug 23: Australia's Richard Green leads the way after the opening round of the Scottish PGA Championship at Gleneagles. The 31-year-old Melbourne professional set the pace with a seven under par round of 65, one stroke ahead of Sweden's Fredrick Andersson, who bogeyed the last after losing a ball with his second shot.
Eleven players lie one shot further back, including Scottish duo Andrew Oldcorn and Raymond Russell, who were among the early pace-setters.
Green opened up with a 65 for the second time in successive tournaments having posted his first at Celtic Manor two weeks ago
He said, ""Since the (British) Open I've started to putt pretty nicely."

"I started to line up my body more with the hole, rather than line the putt up and that has freed everything, allowed me to stroke the ball naturally.
"Fortunately this week the greens are nice and true."
Edinburgh's Russell had made started slowly with one birdie and one bogey in his outward half of 36, but then rolled in five birdies in six holes from the turn to move to five under.
Also starting on the back nine, Oldcorn, the 2001 Volvo PGA champion, overcame bad putting which has plagued him all year to shoot eight birdies.
But he also dropped three shots.
He said afterwards: "My problem this year has been my putting which has been diabolical.
"That's why I'm about 95th in the putting statistics."


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