ZIMBABWE’S Mark McNulty threw away a first-round lead at the Stenham Royal Swazi Sun Open in Mbabane on Thursday with a rare triple bogey on the course’s third easiest hole. McNulty finished on 68, three strokes behind leaders Chris Davison, Brenden Pappas and Justin Hobday. Wimpie Botha, Andre Cruse, Ashley Roestoff, Ian Kennedy AND American Andrew Pitts were tied for second on 66. McNulty, level with 10 other players, described the 72-par course as easy, an opinion confirmed by the fact that 83 of the 112-strong field scored par or better. The four-time Swaziland winner botched-up on the par-five 17th by hitting the ball into one of two greenside traps with his second shot. He hit right back into the other bunker from where he played a perfect return into the first sandpit. He got out but then three-putted from the fringe of the green.