Daly off to poor start

John Daly, who used superglue to repair a hand injury earlier this week, came unstuck in the early stages of the Dutch Open.

The former Open champion revealed he had played the last 13 holes of his second round at Muirfield last week "basically one-handed" after injuring his right hand playing a shot from the rough.

The 36-year-old had the hand X-rayed on his arrival in Holland, and found the source of the pain was a piece of glass that had been there for years, embedded in a bone just above the knuckle of his first finger.

The glass was removed and the wound stitched, but when the stitches came undone during a practice round, Daly resorted to his very own brand of running repairs.

The superglue had been supplemented with a large plaster when the American teed off at Hilversum, and did not appear to be severely affecting his play.

After missing the first fairway and coming up short with his second, a poor chip that ran eight feet past led to his first bogey of the day.

The damage could have been repaired on the next, but his curling birdie attempt from 20 feet stopped inches short of the cup.

And after another putt slid wide on the third, he bogeyed the fourth to drop back to two over.

Playing partner Pierre Fulke had birdied the second from 10 feet and bounced back from a bogey on the fourth to also birdie the fifth to lie one under, one off the early lead.

That was held by Peter Lonard, who was two under after six, with Mark James among six players a shot behind.

Nick Faldo had been amongst that group after his approach to the second span back to within five feet of the hole to set up a birdie, but a poor drive on the fourth cost him a bogey five.