Siddikur stutters

South African Charl Schwartzel shot a red-hot eight-under-par 64 on the opening day of the Maybank Malaysian Open to take a one-shot lead from India's Jeev Milkha Singh at the top of the table at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club yesterday.
Bangladesh's ace golfer Siddikur Rahman meanwhile wallowed in joint 53rd position with an even-par 72.
Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters Tournament champion reeled in an astonishing nine birdies over the eighteen holes, with the only blip in his scorecard a bogey on the fifteenth.
It was however, an indifferent day for Siddikur. The 2010 Brunei Open winner is looking for his elusive second win on the Asian Tour, and yesterday's returns have decreased the likelihood of that happening in the 2.5 million-dollar event event.
The 28-year-old, eighth on the Asian Tour Order of Merit, bogeyed the second hole before pulling things back with a birdie in the fourth, then going on to break par on the rest of the front nine. The back nine was the same story in reverse; Siddikur birdied the tenth hole to go one-under but undid the good work when he bogeyed the fifteenth.
Singh finished second with a seven-under-par 65, while South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, India's Jyoti Randhawa and United States' Jason Knutzon shared third spot with six-under-par 66s.