Nick Dougherty leads Malaysian Open

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Englishman Nick Dougherty blitzed a career-best, 10-under-par 62, to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the $2 million Maybank Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Having earlier in the week described the course as a “thinking man’s”, challenge, Dougherty got his tactics exactly right as he blasted his way to a two stroke lead at the Kota Permai Golf & Country Club.

Dougherty sensationally birdied 10 of his 13 first holes and was in with a seriously realistic chance of a first round of 59 in European Tour history. Sadly he couldn’t maintain the momentum and finished his round by parring all of the final 5 holes.

Dougherty admitted that his thoughts had turned to an historic 59 saying, “it was there to be won, but it didn’t happen.” He leads by two shots from Simon Dyson and Australian Marcus Fraser, who carded matching 64s.

Update Second Day: Nick Dougherty carded a 70 to retain the lead, after a rain-interupted second round of the Malaysian Open, which saw play suspended for two hours. Dougherty was joined at the top of the leaderboard on -12 by home player Danny Chia who took advantage of a break in the weather earlier on to produce six birdies during his round of 65.

Second round leaders:
D Chia (Mas) -12 (18)
N Dougherty (Eng) -12 (18)
S Kjeldsen (Den) -11 (18)
J Randhawa (Ind) -11 (16)

Nick Dougherty leads Malaysian Open

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