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Yang, Fowler set early pace in Korea

DEFENDING champion Yang Yong-eun and American Rickie Fowler fired 4-under-par rounds of 67 to set the pace in the first round of the Korea Open yesterday.

US Open champion Rory McIlroy lurked one shot back after carding a 68 in windy conditions at the Woo Jeong Hills Country Club in Cheonan, alongside Hong Soon-sang and amateur Lee Soo-min. "I started with a birdie which helped a lot," Yang told reporters. "I think 12 or 13 under par will win it and I'm sure I can be there or thereabouts." Yang, the first Asian man to win a major at the 2009 US PGA Championship, overturned a 10-stroke final-round deficit last year to win his second Korea Open title. McIlroy squandered his chance to claim at least a share of the first-round lead after splashing into water at the 11th for a double-bogey six.



 

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