A freakish stroke of luck helped young Australian Elvis Smylie shoot to the top of the leaderboard, while Rory McIlroy endured a rollercoaster first round of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne on Thursday.
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trying to flight it down. That’s where it did start. Needs to go a little creativity from Rory on display immediately. So impressive early on. You think about amazing stories right now in Australian golf. His comeback story. The young man from Sydney. Oh, that’s a handy bounce. A great result for Guan. He might be handing over a glove just off the green. Minu Lee looking to cozy one up there. Almost better than that. It’s beautifully done. Being struck by a golf ball. Good to have him back on deck. To Adam Scott we go. nicely the putt on a similar line just moments ago. It’s got the speed. Oh, what a start from Mroy down under on top immediately. Certainly is an opening statement. Got to be looking at a similar shot. 10 15 ft left of the flag. Try and drift it in from left to right. 188. It is fading in just left of it. Judging it beautifully. So, Minu will get a look at birdie here on his second hole of the day. Good strike. Miles in the air. on a good line too. Superb. Wasn’t on song. Very unusual. And now Maroy Euan the putt on the way. Yeah. Up the hill very slow moving to his left off the shoulder of the bunker. Pretty decent. And I was going to say it’s just so good that you’ve got so many options around these greens. You’re going to see lob wides, putters, threewoods, bump and runs. Hugo Kuso here has found the fairway at his opening hole down the 10th. That’s the company of Mark Leechman and Joel Gerbach out there today. And that right down the pipe. 180 on this hole. Anywhere on this green is good. There’s a chance to bounce back for the Queenslander. It is helping a little. 79 in hand high up in the air. It is floating right. Minu Lee found some fairway as well. Euan and just 154. He’s only got a wedge here. It is helping hard off the left. That side of the green is going to get a big workout today, especially as the wind picks up through. And now Maroy just 135 ball flight got knocked down on the previous hole. And the same again here. Tried to turn little wedge up into the breeze and stalled on him. That’s going to be an interesting two putt. The final putt is hole. We go to 13. And Jeffrey Gu short little dog leg left par four. Green releases to the back right corner. That is very tidy work especially from that left rough. What is the middle paddock of four here at Royal Melbourne. Go back to 11 and go back for birdie. Can he find the pace? Just it can be done. 3/4 shot. This drifting back towards the flag. Might even be a slightly right of it to go. And it does. It covers trackman with thanks to Rolex, former champion Jeff Oglev. outstanding form last week at the PGA in Brisbane. This was moments ago here on the par five and he’s running it up beautifully. Anything landing on this green with a long line is going straight over the back and Jeff knows that better than any up to 15 and par four. Alex Fitzpatrick played well last week particularly late. He’s had a few challenges early. New season is underway. Scott for eagle and that’ll get him going. Adam Scott with an eagle. Could be almost the same at the moment. They are running pretty quick now. one big sweeping downhill left to right. Thank you very much. And that is a bonus because that was going a good seven or eight ft past. Oh, the Rory fans are ready. Another magnificent long cut from Rory Mroy. You can’t keep him down for too long. So you can use the bounce especially on the longer shots. Cam Smith second shot. 120 for Cam Smith. Straight down breeze. How brave do you want to be at this pin. Wow. Wow. That’s brave. She will be absolutely loving being out there watching the best men players in the world. This guy’s popular the world over. Eddie Peril chance to get the three under and join the leaders and right around for another birdie. Little lap of honor there for Eddie. I was going to say it’s not often you get the world number 40 carrying the scoreboard around for a group of three. Can watch the ball flight thanks to Trackman with support from Rolex. Oh yes, pulling the screen and the tap inverting birdie well on on grainy greens. Sometimes trickier to control but not so for Cory there on the quicker surfaces. Alex Fitzpatrick now Elvis from the right side of the fairway here on one be drawing one in from the middle of the green. Yeah, I believe he’s got six iron here. Brad Peter told me that wind is really howing across left and right now. Oh, there you go. There you go. Sometimes you just need a little bit of luck. Well, if he holds that putt, I’d race over to that person and I don’t know, just give him half a dozen. Euan. Yeah. Putting across the green uphill into the breeze, moving from his left to right. Perfect long range putt from Minwe. While others were struggling on this hole, not so for Minw. I think the Cashmere breathes a little better. Not the spot to be for this flag though for Alex Fitzpatrick. Not much to work with, but he has done very well. That’s it from our pleaser. Alex Fitzpatrick all the way back to one over again. Two under after his first three holes. The Kiwi Ryan Fox. And this is tracking. Oh, what a start from the Kiwi. Trying to flight this one down. See where Kim? He doesn’t like it. It’s heading a little bit right, but it actually that should kick down from there. That’s where you want to miss it. getting closer by the second. It’s got a chance to go in here. Seawwork kid tap in birdie coming up after the club wound up on the tech because it’s really important to to try and use the greens to get to the pins as opposed to just firing at pins once you start doing that on on this golf course. You can look like a legend a couple of times, but it uh you can come unstuck really quickly if you you know you get too aggressive on the wrong holes and the wrong pins and the wrong winds. So, great little short path three. It’s uh it’s one of the greats. I just uh both a great shot. I watched the group go through there just before. It was amazing how much the ball was sitting up into the breeze. Yelling for a birdie. They haven’t seen one for a while. Sand wedge in hand. [Applause] Anthony Quail looking to bounce back. Get two shots back at four over and Quail nails it. Think back to last week as well. He made multiple putts from off the green. He doesn’t mind putting from the fringe. 109 for Hillier here. This wind down left to right. This one on a very very good line. [Applause] Just 110 with a sand wedge. This looks excellent off the club. That’s the best we’ve seen all day. So hard to get it close to that back left hand pin. There’s That was world class talent to do that. Daring from Nean to Herbert. This is fourth. start with his two wickets today has equaled the great Wasim Akran one of Fox cricket’s own on 414 test wickets the equal most now for a left arm quick in the history of cricket wasim had this to say during the week about Mitchell start high praise from the salt in the swing right now he’s the number one bowler in world cricket hardest one to face in all forms he will go past my record potentially today and that is fine because he is a man for the job and a worthy champion. I think it’s great that Mitchell Star is finally getting the respect he deserves. He is going to go down as a great at Australian cricket at the big fella. Yeah, and I think over the last two years that ball that he’s produced to the rightanders, that ball that nips away and the wobble seam that he’s producing, the consistency um you know, I I think it’s right that we start talking about him as one of the greats of the game. He’s clearly going to break Wazing record very quickly. Uh he’s already got 12 wickets in this series. Uh I think we picked him as leading wicket taker Kered in the series. Yeah, he’s going to take some catching. Fantastic. He’ll end up as the fourth highest wicket taker. I think Warney will hold on to one, line will be two, McGra will hold on to three, Stark will be four, Cumins five, Hazelwood six, and the great Dennis Lily is seven. So four of the current available players will be in the top six of all time. Well, I think Nathan Lion’s only two behind Glenn McGra coming into this test match. It was extraordinary. Obviously he’ll probably die there the way things are going and you’ve got some thoughts on that and by the way if Wing gets runs up rung up by an Indian journalist it’ll be Jasper. Correct. Correct. And South Africa Rabata is my number one boy. No doubt about that.
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