Q. Nice round out there. Just talk about your day.

DOUG MILNE: We’d like to thank Eric Axley for joining us for a few minutes here at the John Deere Classic. Great playing today, four birdies on the front, four on the back, just the one hiccup on 4. Just a couple comments about the round.

DOUG MILNE: We’d like to thank Kenny Perry for joining us here for a few minutes here at the John Deere Classic. Kenny, no backing down, three birdies right out of the gate to start the round today. Just a couple comments on — we talked to you earlier in the week so we kind of know where you are as you started the week, so let’s jump into a couple comments on the round and how you’re feeling.

DOUG MILNE: We’d like to thank Garrett Willis for joining us for a few minutes here at the John Deere Classic. Great first round today, seven birdies and just a lone bogey. Can you comment on how great it feels to be here and to put out a great first round?

(updates at end of round)

Q. Good playing today, five birdies, no bogeys, 13 one-putts. Tell me about it.

STEWART MOORE: We’d like to welcome Ken Duke to the interview room here at the John Deere Classic after a great round of 64 out there and finishing your day with a birdie on a 503-yard par-4 must be nice. Talk about the round.

Thongchai Jaidee
shrugged aside a bad back caused by the constant travelling from
his home in Thailand to take the early first-round lead in the
Scottish Open on Thursday.

Lee Westwood said
on Thursday he had never felt so good about his game on the eve
of a British Open.

A $4.2 million prize purse, an outstanding field of players and the unwavering support of title sponsor Deere & Company have propelled the John Deere Classic at the PGA TOUR’s award-winning TPC Deere Run to great heights as the launching pad for the British Open. But the tournament’s journey from small-town tournament to a favored spot on the PGA TOUR wasn’t an easy one.

The Czech Republic will next year host a European Tour event for the first time since 1997.

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The Czech
Republic will next year host a European Tour event for the first
time since 1997.

Jerry Kelly saw what he calls the “Midwest Katrina” up-close-and-personal when he was driving back from the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship several weeks ago.

Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. have entered a multi-year strategic alliance that will allow the two companies to collaborate on advertising and sports-related content.

Jean Van de Velde’s
‘affaire d’amour’ with the British Open will continue next week
after the Frenchman proved he was over a career-threatening
illness by qualifying for the third major of the year.

The first round
of the Scottish Open has been delayed after heavy overnight
rain left sections of the course flooded, organisers said on
Thursday.