IRELAND’S PADRAIG HARRINGTON had a mixed day in the inaugural round of Olympic golf in Rio.
The Dubliner carded a one-under par 70 to leave him six shots off early pace-setter Marcus Fraser of Australia.
Harrington got off to a poor start as he was one of the few early starters to bogey the par 5 first, but he was able to steady the ship and was back to even par with a birdie at the fifth.
The three-time Major winner looked to be really finding a rhythm at the turn as he carded a birdie either side of it to move to -2 through 10 holes.
On the 12th though, his stock was dropping and score rising again as he thumped his second shot into an embankment before it slipped back towards a bunker. He took a bogey there and again on the 14th hole.
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He would finish on the right side of the ledger though, as his fourth birdie of the day came at the 15th and he then narrowly missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th to leave him with a -1 in the clubhouse.
Seamus Power is also sitting at -1 (at the time of writing) after back-to-back birdies on four and five.
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