It may have been a Thursday but Adam Scott was determined to produce his Sunday best.
The calm, collected Australian, with a passion for surfing, certainly made waves at Royal Lytham. A shimmering six-under 64, which had some of its sparkle dimmed by a bogey on the last hole, steered the 32-year-old to the top of the leaderboard with a card that equalled the course record and left him a stroke clear of Zach Johnson, Nicolas Colsaerts and Scotland's Paul Lawrie.
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