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LUSS, Scotland – Phil Mickelson shot a 6-under 65 Thursday to share the lead in the first round of the Scottish Open.

The two-time Masters champion had an eagle and five birdies in the British Open warmup at Loch Lomond.

“We had a great day to score low,” Mickelson said. “There wasn't much wind and the greens were putting very well. It's a fun test of golf and it was fun to play well the first day.”

Graeme Storm, Soren Hansen and Lee Westwood also shot 65 to tie Mickelson, while Mikko Ilonen, Marcel Siem, Mark Foster and Christian Nilsson trail by a stroke.

Ernie Els (69) had four bogeys and six birdies, and was followed by Luke Donald (70) and U.S. Open champion Angel Cabrera (71).

Colin Montgomerie, who won the European Open on Sunday, birdied three of the first five holes but settled for a 69.

“Two under. I'd have taken it at the start of the day,” Montgomerie said. “A 4-iron at the 10th went awry and an 8-iron, the distance was wrong on the 12th. Not much wrong with the shots.”

Mickelson had been troubled by a wrist injury, but showed little sign of it Thursday.

“There is still pain. Every time you make contact, it stings,” he said. “But I know I can't damage it any further and so I'm not afraid to go for the shots.”

After starting with two pars and a bogey, Mickelson eagled the par-5 13th and followed it up with a birdie. He then birdied four of his last six holes, including an 18-foot putt at the seventh.

“I hit a cut 3-wood around the edge of the green to 15 feet and made it. That started my round,” he said of the eagle.

Jose Maria Olazabal withdrew from the Scottish Open with a knee injury lingering from last month's U.S. Open, putting him in doubt for the British Open.

Virginia Tech's Drew Weaver – who won this year's British Amateur – shot a first-round 75.

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Scores with relation to par from the first round of the Barclays Scottish Open, played July 12 at the par-72, 7,139-yard Loch Lomond in Glasgow, Scotland (Note: a-amateur):

1. Soren Hansen	65		-6
1. Phil Mickelson	65		-6
1. Graeme Storm	65		-6
1. Lee Westwood	65		-6
5. Mark Foster	66		-5
5. Mikko Ilonen	66		-5
5. Christian L Nilsson	66		-5
5. Marcel Siem	66		-5
9. Pelle Edberg	67		-4
9. Simon Khan	67		-4
9. Søren Kjeldsen	67		-4
9. Jose Manuel Lara	67		-4
9. Shaun Micheel	67		-4
9. Andres Romero	67		-4
9. Edward Rush	67		-4
9. Sam Walker	67		-4
17. Phillip Archer	68		-3
17. Ariel Canete	68		-3
17. Bradley Dredge	68		-3
17. Richard Finch	68		-3
17. Grégory Havret	68		-3
17. Paul Lawrie	68		-3
17. Peter Lawrie	68		-3
17. Paul McGinley	68		-3
17. David Park	68		-3
17. Patrik Sjöland	68		-3
17. Miles Tunnicliff	68		-3
17. Steve Webster	68		-3
17. Boo Weekley	68		-3
30. Thomas Björn	69		-2
30. Robert-Jan Derksen	69		-2
30. Ernie Els	69		-2
30. Ross Fisher	69		-2
30. Peter Hedblom	69		-2
30. Garry Houston	69		-2
30. Raphaël Jacquelin	69		-2
30. Thongchai Jaidee	69		-2
30. Wen-Chong Liang	69		-2
30. Mardan Mamat	69		-2
30. Colin Montgomerie	69		-2
30. Ian Poulter	69		-2
30. Lee Slattery	69		-2
43. Richard Bland	70		-1
43. Grégory Bourdy	70		-1
43. Luke Donald	70		-1
43. David Drysdale	70		-1
43. Gonzalo Fdez-Castaño	70		-1
43. Oliver Fisher	70		-1
43. Marcus Fraser	70		-1
43. Retief Goosen	70		-1
43. James Heath	70		-1
43. David Howell	70		-1
43. Thomas Levet	70		-1
43. Andrew Marshall	70		-1
43. Graeme McDowell	70		-1
43. Steven O'Hara	70		-1
43. Peter O'Malley	70		-1
43. Louis Oosthuizen	70		-1
43. Wade Ormsby	70		-1
43. a-Richard Ramsay	70		-1
43. Kyron Sullivan	70		-1
43. Simon Yates	70		-1
63. Johan Axgren	71		E
63. Paul Broadhurst	71		E
63. Angel Cabrera	71		E
63. Darren Clarke	71		E
63. Alastair Forsyth	71		E
63. Ian Garbutt	71		E
63. Sergio Garcia	71		E
63. David Griffiths	71		E
63. Peter Gustafsson	71		E
63. Anton Haig	71		E
63. Christopher Hanell	71		E
63. James Hepworth	71		E
63. Andrew McLardy	71		E
63. Phillip Price	71		E
63. Jyoti Randhawa	71		E
63. Charl Schwartzel	71		E
63. Carl Suneson	71		E
63. Taichi Teshima	71		E
63. Simon Thornton	71		E
82. Joakim Bäckström	72	+	1
82. John Bickerton	72	+	1
82. Alejandro Cañizares	72	+	1
82. Martin Erlandsson	72	+	1
82. Stephen Gallacher	72	+	1
82. Ignacio Garrido	72	+	1
82. Ricardo Gonzalez	72	+	1
82. Peter Hanson	72	+	1
82. Trevor Immelman	72	+	1
82. Maarten Lafeber	72	+	1
82. José-Filipe Lima	72	+	1
82. Jean-François Lucquin	72	+	1
82. Sandy Lyle	72	+	1
82. Damien McGrane	72	+	1
82. Matthew Millar	72	+	1
82. Gary Murphy	72	+	1
82. Alexander Noren	72	+	1
82. Jeev Milkha Singh	72	+	1
82. Richard Sterne	72	+	1
82. Alessandro Tadini	72	+	1
82. Hideto Tanihara	72	+	1
82. Daniel Vancsik	72	+	1
82. Simon Wakefield	72	+	1
82. Anthony Wall	72	+	1
82. Tom Whitehouse	72	+	1
107. Benn Barham	73	+	2
107. Scott Drummond	73	+	2
107. Rafael Echenique	73	+	2
107. Miguel Angel Jiménez	73	+	2
107. Shiv Kapur	73	+	2
107. Robert Karlsson	73	+	2
107. David Lynn	73	+	2
107. Francesco Molinari	73	+	2
107. Jean-François Remesy	73	+	2
107. Robert Rock	73	+	2
107. Y.E. Yang	73	+	2
118. Emanuele Canonica	74	+	3
118. Stephen Dodd	74	+	3
118. Mattias Eliasson	74	+	3
118. Darren Fichardt	74	+	3
118. Richard Green	74	+	3
118. Martin Kaymer	74	+	3
118. Barry Lane	74	+	3
118. Santiago Luna	74	+	3
118. Andrew Oldcorn	74	+	3
118. Terry Price	74	+	3
118. Marc Warren	74	+	3
118. Oliver Wilson	74	+	3
130. Rafael Cabrera Bello	75	+	4
130. Marcus Higley	75	+	4
130. Greig Hutcheon	75	+	4
130. Lee S James	75	+	4
130. Pablo Martin	75	+	4
130. a-Kevin McAlpine	75	+	4
130. Cesar Monasterio	75	+	4
130. Brett Rumford	75	+	4
130. Sven Strüver	75	+	4
130. a-Drew Weaver	75	+	4
140. Andrew Coltart	76	+	5
140. Johan Edfors	76	+	5
140. Tom Lehman	76	+	5
140. Thaworn Wiratchant	76	+	5
144. Christian Cevaer	77	+	6
144. Gary Emerson	77	+	6
144. Kenneth Ferrie	77	+	6
144. Gary Lockerbie	77	+	6
144. Andrew Tampion	77	+	6
149. Simon Dyson	78	+	7
149. S.K. Ho	78	+	7
149. Juan Parron	78	+	7
149. Mark Pilkington	78	+	7
153. Steven Jeppesen	79	+	8
153. Gary Marks	79	+	8
153. Jarmo Sandelin	79	+	8

                
Posted: 7/12/2007

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