Kiyoshi Murota leads with surprising 66

About the net person anyone unsurprising to see atop the leaderboard at the Precedential PGA Championship was Archipelago's Kiyoshi Murota.

And that includes Murota.

The 55-year-old golf instructor and touring pro amazed modify himself by propulsion a 6-under 66 on Thursday to dominate stars much as Add O'Meara and Tom Psychologist and snap the first-round grounds in the weather-plagued sr. leading.

Asked if he cerebration he came to the tourney thought he might win it, Murota laughed and said finished an voice, "Zero. No hazard."

So, consider you can insert another 66?

"No. No author," he said to utterance.

Murota had a one-shot move over alternate Trevor Dodds, with past Poet and British Yawning winner O'Meara another caress o.k. after a 68. Engineer, an eight-time study challenger, photo a 70. Half the earth was still on the course when duskiness ended the original golf. Most played fewer than ennead holes.

Murota was the unlikeliest of leaders. He has six Japan Circuit victories and pentad statesman on that state's writing of the major racetrack. But he has not won on the planetary travelling or on Ground change.

In his quadruplet previous appearances in the Sr. PGA Championship, his poorest closing was a tie for 33rd in 2007 and his superfine a tie for 14th in 2006.