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\"CIMBJakarta:<\/strong> Lee Westwood<\/a> of England got off to a hot start in his title defence at the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters<\/a> with a sizzling round of seven-under-par 65 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Englishman opened up a two-shot lead over highly rated Arnond Vongvanij of Thailand, who returned with a 67 at the US$750,000 Asian Tour event staged at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club.<\/p>\n

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Veteran Boonchu Ruangkit of Thailand, former Asian Tour number one Jyoti Randhawa of India, Shiv Kapur<\/a>, Lee Sung of Korea, Zaw Moe of Myanmar and Sam Cyr of the United States were bunched up in tied third place on matching 68s.<\/p>\n

A rejuvenated Westwood, who took a week\u2019s break from his third place finish at the Masters, birdied the opening three holes before turning in 31 and adding three birdies and one bogey on his homeward nine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a break last week and hardly hit any balls. I played a lot of golf earlier this year and needed a rest. It was good to go home and recharge my batteries because the Masters always takes a lot out of you. It is physically and mentally very demanding,\u201d said the world number three golfer.<\/p>\n

It was a wind-swept day at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club and Westwood was caught off guard on the 14th hole where he dropped his second bogey of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is quite a tricky test because the greens are very undulating. You got to have your \u201cA-Game\u201d with you. It (wind direction) changed on 14 and it caught me by surprise and ended up with a bogey where I three putted,\u201d said the Englishman, who rose to the world number one position with his victory in this tournament last year.<\/p>\n

Asian Tour rookie Arnond, who has two top-10 finishes this year, continued to impress and credited his straight shooting game for his flawless scorecard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy but not surprised. I feel that my game in the last couple of weeks have been really close to where I want it. I hit my driver fairly straight and didn\u2019t get into too much trouble,\u201d said the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n

Korea\u2019s Lee, who was born with a hearing impairment but had an implant surgically put into his right ear in 2010 to help him hear, missed only one fairway in a round of five birdies against one bogey. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy driver was excellent. I missed only one fairway. If you get your tee shots going here, you can have a chance of attacking the greens. All my birdies were quite close today,\u201d said Lee, who has won once on the Asian Tour in 2007.<\/p>\n

Kapur, the Asian Tour rookie in 2005, birdied three of his closing five holes to trail first round leader Westwood by three shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played pretty well. It was one of those rounds where I could have gone really low. I just didn\u2019t hole enough putts. I hit a lot of fairways and greens and kept burning the edges. I was kind of rewarded with my patience,\u201d said Kapur.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the course. It is one of those courses where there\u2019s a big premium of hitting fairways. You have to hit quality iron shots here. Iron play is kind of my strength so it worked pretty well for me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Matthew Rosenfeld of the United States will finish his first round on Friday morning as darkness fell at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club.<\/p>\n

Scores:
<\/strong>
65 – Lee Westwood (ENG).
67 – Arnond Vongvanij (THA).
68 – Lee Sung (KOR), Boonchu Ruangkit (THA), Zaw Moe (MYN), Jyoti Randhawa<\/a> (IND), Sam Cyr (USA), Shiv Kapur (IND).
69 – Park Hyun-bin (KOR), Berry Henson (USA), Thitiphun Chuayprakong (THA), Masanori Kobayashi (JPN), Angelo Que (PHI), Rick Kulacz (AUS).
70 – Bernd Wiesberger (AUT), Marcus Both (AUS), Mithun Perera (SRI), Javi Colomo (ESP), Koh Deng Shan (SIN), Antonio Lascuna (PHI), Ajeetesh Sandhu (IND), Pawin Ingkhapradit (THA).
71 – Elmer Salvador (PHI), Siddikur (BAN), Wade Ormsby (AUS), Thanyakon Khrongpha (THA).<\/p>\n

By Indian Sports News Network
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