GEORGE, South Africa (AP)—Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium opened with acourse record 9-under-par 64 to lead the first round of the Volvo Golf Championsat The Links at Fancourt on Thursday.
Colsaerts has a four-stroke lead over South Africa’s Branden Grace andThomas Aiken and England’s Tom Lewis .
The previous course record was 68 set by Tim Clark and Ross Fisher in thefirst round of the 2005 South African Open.
Padraig Harrington showed glimpses of a return to form with a 69, despite adouble-bogey 7 at the last hole.