-11 N Colsaerts (Bel); -8 S Jamieson (Sco), A Levy (Fra); -7 R Cabrera-Bello (Spa); -6 C Doak (Sco), D Willett (Eng), F Aguilar (Chi), D Lynn (Eng); Selected others: -4 P Mcginley (Ire); level P Lawrie (Sco); +1 O Wilson (Eng)
(clubhouse scores just recorded; play stopped for the day by overwhelming precipitation)
Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts came quite close to turning into the first man to shoot a sub-60 round in the 42-year history of the European Tour amid the opening round of the Portugal Masters.
The 31-year-old missed a 20-foot birdie putt at the eighteenth at the Oceanico Victoria Golf Club on Thursday to pass up a major opportunity by one stroke.
He posted seven birdies in his initial 12 gaps before eagling the fifteenth and seventeenth.
"Strolling down 17, I told my caddie, 'its 59 or nothing'," said Colsaerts.
"I figured out how to make a falcon and after that hit a decent drive on the eighteenth. It's excessively terrible it simply shaved the edge," he included of his putt.
A round of 60 has been attained 19 times on the European Tour. American Peter Uihlein did so twice in 2013, as did Scotland's Scott Jamieson.
The last sits three strokes uncontrolled of world number 185 Colsaerts in Portugal, nearby Alexander Levy of France.
Play was suspended for the day as a result of downpour, with 45 of the 125 players still to finish their first adjusts.
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