Sport in Short: Golf

MALAYSIAN WOMEN'S OPEN (Kuala Lumpur) Leading first-round scores: 64 S Prosser (GB). 70 Y De Leon (Phil). 71 M Lunn (Aus). 72 L De Paulo (US), J L Ralls (US), H Wadsworth (GB), F Dassu (It); Ho Po-Hsia (Ch); M Bertilskold (Swe).

NEW ZEALAND OPEN (Paraparaumu) Leading first-round scores (Aus unless stated): 66 R Green, M King, S Tooman. 67 E Egloff (US), J Kay (Can), S Robinson, J Wade. 68 S Bouvier, S Conran, A Knoll (Can), O Moore, L B Wright. 69 M Campbell (NZ), P Fowler, C Gray, C Joyce, G Serhan, L Stephen, L Tinkler.

HONG KONG OPEN Leading first-round scores (US unless stated): 63 B Watts. 66 R Stewart (Can). 67 M Aoki (Japan), R Backwell (Aus), R Karlsson (Swe), J Kernohan, B Conser, G Steel (GB), D Mijovic (Can), M Wurtz, Lu Hsi-Chuen (Tai). Selected: 72 D Feherty (N Irl). 74 S Ballesteros (Sp).

SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN (Johannesburg) Leading first-round scores (SA unless stated): 66 R Goosen, B Vaughan (US). 68 R McCann (US), A Pitts (US), C Whitelaw, J Kingston. 69 C Bolling (US), N Wallace, H Royer (US), J Hobday, I Hutchings, S Dunlap (US). 70 B Lincoln, S Daniels, D Frost, R Wessels, T Ashcraft (US). 71 A de Weerd, W Player, I Palmer, A Henning, R Kaplan, I Mosey (GB), C Baron (GB), J Metcalfe (GB), J Restino (US), D Terreblanche, W Bradley, J Hawkes, M McNulty (Zim), E Els, M Foster (US).

BOB HOPE CLASSIC (La Quinta, California) Leading first-round scores (US unless stated): 63 D Rummells. 65 M Hayes, N Henke, D Hammond. 66 J Haas, P Persons, R Dalpos, G Waite, C Stadler, C Strange, B Claar, J Edwards, J Cook, R Fehr. 67 K Gibson, D Trixler, T Kite, M Carnevale, F Funk, B Estes, M Donald, M Standly, R Black, H Green, J Huston, R Freeman.