Watney takes one-stroke lead in PGA Tour opener

January 4, 2008

Nick Watney took the lead Thursday at the PGA Tour’s season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship with a five-under-par 68 at Kapalua, Hawaii. Watney’s round featured only one bogey. Watney poured in enough putts to take a one-shot lead over Daniel Chopra.

Scott Verplank was at even-par 73, rattled by a ruling he continued to dispute after his round that cost him a double-bogey on the 13th.

With his ball positioned on the slope of the fairway, the wind gusting some 30 mph in his face, his ball moved about a quarter-inch. Verplank did not think he had addressed the ball, but after a discussion with rules official Mike Shea, he was told he caused the ball to move.

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