Furyk, Rose break Hamilton record

Jim Furyk and Justin Rose took advantage of perfect scoring conditions Thursday in the first round of the Canadian Open at Ancaster, Ontario.

Furyk and Rose shot the lowest rounds in professional play on the 90-year-old Hamilton Golf and Country Club course, 7-under-par 63s that left them a stroke ahead of Brandt Jobe, Nathan Green and Frank Lickliter II on the rain-softened layout.

“I shot a low number, but I was obviously aided by the weather and the conditions,” Furyk said.

Furyk, second on the PGA Tour money list and No. 3 in the world rankings, holed a 9-iron shot from 120 yards for eagle on the 379-yard 12th hole – his third hole of the day – and added five birdies in his bogey-free round.

Rose, coming off a fourth-place tie Monday in the Deutsche Bank Championship, had six birdies and a bogey in a front-nine 30 and made two more birdies on the back nine, the last a 1-footer after a 30-yard chip on the par-5 17th. The 26-year-old Englishman capped his afternoon round with a 6-foot par putt on the par-4 18th.

They broke the course pro record of 64 set by Tommy Armour in the fourth round of the 1930 Canadian Open.

Jesper Parnevik, Arron Oberholser, Jonathan Byrd, Bubba Watson and Sean O’Hair opened with 65s, and defending champion Mark Calcavecchia topped a group at 66. Mike Weir, trying to become the first Canadian winner in 52 years, had a 71.

European Masters

Michelle Wie hooked her tee shots, played erratically out of bunkers and unraveled on the par-3s.

There was one consistent element, though: She is facing another missed cut playing against men.

Wie shot a 7-over 78 in the first round of the European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland. It was Wie’s 10th tournament against men – in which she has made the cut once– and her first on the European tour.

“The par-3s ate me alive today,” the 16-year-old star from Hawaii said. “I didn’t have any feel for the game.”

Wie was tied for 146th on the Alpine layout. Wie was 12 shots behind leaders Anthony Wall, Robert Coles and David Carter, who shot 66. Defending champion Sergio Garcia, who has a summer home near the course, shot a 68 to contend in a relatively weak field.