For the second straight week, Ryan Fox is up with the leaders after the first round on the PGA Tour.
Fox fired a six-under 65 on the opening day at the Black Desert Championship at the picturesque Black Desert Resort in Ivins, Utah on Thursday (Friday NZ Time) to be tied for sixth, five shots off the lead.
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The 37-year-old Aucklander had a rough start to his round, with bogeys at the first and third holes, but it only went up from there.
He closed the front-nine with a birdie at the seventh and eagle at the par-five ninth, rolling in a seven-foot birdie putt after knocking his approach shot from 264 yards close.
Making the turn at one-under, Fox made five birdies on the homeward nine, at the 10th, 12th, 14th, 17th and 18th, with birdie putts of 24 and 18 feet, and just missing an eagle putt at the closing hole.
Compatriot Tim Wilkinson carded a two-under 69, featuring four birdies and two bogeys, to sit in a share of 62nd.
Fox tees off his second round on Friday from the 10th tee at 2.03pm local time (9.03am Saturday NZT), while Wilkinson starts from the first tee at 7.40am local time (2.40am Saturday NZT).
On the Asian Tour, Kiwis Denzel Ieremia and Nick Voke were tied for 58th and 111th, respectively, after the opening round of the Macao Open on Thursday.
Ieremia carded an even-par 70, which included five birdies, a bogey and two double-bogeys. He made a steady beginning, with one birdie on the front-nine, but started the back-nine with back-to-back doubles.
He recovered with birdies at the 12th, 13th, 17th and 18th to salvage something from the round, sitting nine shots off the lead.
Voke produced a birdie, two bogeys and a double-bogey in a three-over 73 in which he hit just 6-of-13 fairways.