Fisher recharges his batteries and smashes course record

Ross Fisher, two days after wondering if he was too tired to compete in the European Open, produced the lowest round of his Tour career. The 27-year-old from Surrey, whose biggest impact previously this season was to blow a chance to beat Phil Mickelson with a closing double-bogey seven in Shanghai last November, broke the course record at the Kent club with a nine-under-par 63. "It's a little bit surreal," said Fisher, who despite the windy conditions finished with six successive birdies to leave some of the biggest names on the circuit trailing in his wake. He leads by two shots from Graeme McDowell. "It's probably the best, most solid round of golf I've played and on the front nine [he began on the 10th] the hole was as big as a bucket," he added. Winner of his first Tour title in Holland last August, Fisher came through... [read full story]