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Lee sets pace with an opening 65 at Firestone

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Aug 6, 2015; Akron, OH, USA; Rickie Fowler tees off on the seventeenth hole during the first round of …

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Former teenage prodigy Danny Lee birdied three of his first four holes en route to a one-shot lead in the opening round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Thursday.

On a day when Jordan Spieth finished five strokes off the pace, the 25-year-old Lee, who won his first PGA Tour title in a playoff for the Greenbrier Classic last month, fired a five-under-par 65 at Firestone.