TULSA, Okla. (AP) -Graeme Storm has played his share of tournaments in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. He spent a winter cleaning trays at a cake factory to scrape up money for Christmas gifts.
So when the Tulsa sun started baking down Thursday afternoon and the pressure of the PGA Championship started ramping up, Storm didn't let it bother him.
Heat is all relative to a guy like him.
Storm shot a 5-under 65 to head into the second round with a two-stroke lead over an equally unlikely - but much better known - player. By the name of John Daly.
"I have no idea," Daly said when asked where this unexpected round came from.
Storm wasn't pressing the issue either.
A journeyman on the European tour, Storm still needed a special invite from the PGA to make it to Southern Hills despite getting his first big-league win earlier this year. Having made it, he got through the kiln-like day without a bogey.
Quite a surprise given the 18-over par the Englishman shot last week in the Bridgestone Invitational.
"I thought, well, just enjoy the moment and play golf," Storm said. "Enjoy it. That's what we're here for."
Temperatures rose past 100 for the first round. An unpredictable breeze did little to cool things off, but did wreak some havoc on Tiger Woods' game. The world's best player shot a 1-over 71, six strokes off the lead, and said he couldn't judge the wind once it started swirling on his second nine.
"I felt like I hit the ball better than my score indicates," said Woods, the Bridgestone winner. "Every time I missed, I missed ever so slightly in the wrong spot. That's how it goes."
Phil Mickelson, recovering from a wrist injury and seeking to make the cut for the first time in a major since the Masters, opened with a 73. He had three bogeys on the back nine.
"I was certainly disappointed with the way it finished up," he said.
