PGA Tour — Padraig Harrington made a horrific start to the FedEx St Jude Classic with a seven over par first round 77 leaving him near the foot of the leaderboard. 

The Dublin had eight bogeys, four on the front nine and three off his last five holes with his lone birdie coming on the par four seventh as he ended the day tied for 151st in the 156-man field.

He hit just 22.22% of the greens and lost 1.5 shot to the field with his putter.

It was also a struggle for Graeme McDowell who had five three-putts as he carded a disappointing 73, losing 4.928 to the field on the greens.

Korea's Seung-Yul Noh and Americans Tom Hoge and Shawn Stefan shot five under 65s to lead by one from Jamie Donaldson, Brian Gay, Dustin Johnson, Steve Stricker, Colt Knost and Miguel Angel Carballo.

Web.com Tour — Seamus Power continued his brilliant start the season in the Rust-Oleum Championshi in Illinois.

Ranked eighth in the money list with the Top 25 winning PGA Tour cards for 2017, the West Waterford man is tied for 14th at Ivanhoe Club after a four under par 68. Scores

American Austin Cock leads by one stroke on seven under par after a 65.