Atwal tied 37th at US Bank C'ship

MILWAUKEE, July 22: Arjun Atwal played a one-under 69 on the first day of the US Ban Championship of Milwaukee, which had the opening interrupted by thunderstorms.
Atwal was tied 37th, even as 93 of the 156 golfers had not completed their rounds, and many of them had not even begun on the par-70 course that is one of the shortest on the PGA Tour.
Atwal started from the tenth and had birdies on the 11th, 14th and 18th, but also back-to-back bogeys on 16th and 17th.On his second nine, he dropped a shot on the fourth to be even par for the day before picking up a birdie on the sixth to finish the day at one-under.
Daniel Chopra shot six birdies and two bogeys in his four-under 66 and he was tied for 11th. Chopra had birdies on second, fourth and sixth and a bogey on seventh. He had two more birdies on tenth and 16th and a bogey on 14th to finish the day at a good four-under 66.
Ben Crane, was on top of the leaderboard when thunderstorms interrupted his birdie spree on Brown Deer Park after a nearly five-hour delay. Crane shot a 8-under 62.
Kenny Perry, the 2003 winner, shot a 63 and Chris Smith, Jeff Sluman and Jerry Kelly all had 64s.