He started six shots off the lead but recorded an eagle and five birdies in a brilliant front nine.
You can give praise to BMW's engineers for endowing the Mini with a brilliant, front strut/multilink rear suspension layout that not only lets the Mini rail corners but also minimizes torque steer (the feeling that the steering wheel is fighting against you when you apply gas in a turn), despite this car's front-wheel-drive setup.
After a brilliant front nine — he carded five birdies — the 40-year-old bogeyed three of the last six holes to finish with a 68.
Exuding an apparently dour competence, Gordon Brown was a brilliant front-man for this Magic World.
Earlier, Snow Sky made every yard of the running, under a brilliant front-running ride from Pat Smullen, to win the Hardwicke Stakes.
"Normality" had been revealed more and more, as we spoke, as a sort of front, or façade, for her, albeit a brave and often brilliant front, behind which she remained, in some ways, as far "outside," as unconnected, as ever.
The Daily Mirror, as its brilliant front page indicates, is downcast at Trump's victory: "A tragedy not just for America but the rest of the world".
Bodemeister, the brilliant front-runner who showed the way in the Derby and the Preakness only to be run down in the final strides, is back in California resting after second-place finishes in both events.
Of course now True Grit will ride with the brilliant front-runners for the Academy Award: The King's Speech, The Fighter, and Black Swan, but hey, when it comes to this sort of shoot out, the Coens are used to it.
The huge chaser Crisp had obliterated the field with a brilliant display of front running before the 12st weight he was carrying began to take its toll.
Goalscorer Bassong became City's saviour after 72 minutes when he made a brilliant interception in front of his own goal to prevent Wickham from finishing off a swift, incisive move involving Sessegnon and Rose.
