Hong Kong, Dec 05: Britain's Richard McEvoy leads by four strokes after first day of Hong Kong Open.
England's Richard McEvoy made a sensational start to his first full season on the European Tour when he stormed to the first round lead in the $700,000 Hong Kong Open on Thursday. McEvoy, who won Europe's Qualifying School last month, fired an eight-under-par 62 to take a four-shot lead in the joint-sanctioned event which is the opening leg of the 2004 European Tour and the penultimate leg of this year's Asian Tour. "To start off like this in my debut year is just amazing," said McEvoy. "I was putting great today and played solid. "I played the first hole poorly (but) I got up and down from about 50 yards and that got me going."

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