Among the European starters, Kenny Ferrie, who performed so well at this year's US Open, made an early appearance on the leaderboard, getting to three-under at one stage before dropping back to finish with a two-under 70.
Fitzpatrick sat two-under at one stage but a poor finish meant he closed at plus-one.
Significance levels of the popular Wald's Chi-squared statistic for simple goodness-of-fit (GOF) tests under one-stage cluster sampling are often unreliable.
McIlroy had been three under at one stage.
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Wilting at one stage under a 90F sun on the vast Arthur Ashe Stadium, Djokovic used his courage, skill and intelligence to reach the first grand-slam final of his young career with a 6-4 6-4 6-3 victoverover the muscular Spaniard.
At one stage, under the then chief executive, John - now Lord Brownene, BP promised to go "beyond petroleum" but the strategy was ditched and the company reverted to focussing on fossil fuels.
At the Cannes film festival earlier this week, the makers of drug-war thriller Sicario revealed they had at one stage been under pressure from producers to rewrite the lead role, a female FBI agent played by Emily Blunt, to make the character male.
"At one stage, she went under the bow, which was quite frightening," Darvelid said.
Phil Mickelson, who flew into Scotland the day before, made 68 to be three off the lead, but at one stage was six under.
Broad, who found himself captaining from the boundary at one stage, looked a man under pressure.
