Russell Knox made a strong start to the defence of his WGC-HSBC Champions title with a bogey-free opening round in Shanghai. Cheap Air Max 90 Wholesale . Knox finished 20 under par in winning his first European Tour title last year and carried on where he left off on Thursday as he attempts to become only the second player after Tiger Woods to retain a World Golf Championships title.The 31-year-old Scot carded a 66 at Sheshan International to finish six under par, a shot behind playing partner Rickie Fowler and two back from Swedens Rikard Karlberg. The group of Knox, Fowler and Paul Casey were a combined 18 under par for the day, with Casey carding a 67 which featured four birdies, an eagle and the groups only bogey on the 11th. Rikard Karlberg carded a 64 in the opening round at the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai After starting on the back nine, Knox followed four straight pars with four birdies in succession from the 14th, before picking up further shots on the third and seventh.Fowler had covered the back nine in 31 and completed a flawless 65 with birdies on the second and ninth, the latter edging him ahead of Knox and compatriot Daniel Berger. Watch NOW TV Catch all the excitement of Sky Sports for just ￡6.99 - and no contract! World No 3 Rory McIlroy was seven shots off the pace with an opening day 71 as he chased the victory he feels will be necessary to have a chance of winning the Race to Dubai for the third year running.McIlroy is more than a million points behind Masters champion Danny Willett, who has a lead of more than 400,000 points over Open champion Henrik Stenson, with Willett battling back from a nightmare start to card an opening 74. Rickie Fowler is one off the pace after the opening round. Three bogeys and a double bogey in the space of four holes took Willett to the turn in 41, but birdies on the second, third and ninth repaired some of the damage for the world No 9.McIlroy also started on the 10th and ended a run of six straight pars with a birdie on the 16th, although even that was something of a disappointment after driving the green on the short par four and missing from eight feet for an eagle. 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The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period. Mike Brown says England are building an aura which he believes will propel his side to replace New Zealand as the best team in world rugby.Englands Old Mutual Wealth series begins against South Africa on Saturday, with Fiji, Argentina and Australia also visiting Twickenham on successive weekends.Eddie Jones transformed England from World Cup flops to Grand Slam champions and masters of the Wallabies, who were subdued 3-0 in June, in the space of six months.Brown insists they are now commanding respect, with the team feeding off results that have lifted them to second in the world rankings.We are building some sort of aura. Teams can see what we are about and there is still so much more that we can achieve, Brown said.Its great if, externally, we build something and people realise that we are here, but in the squad it just builds confidence and keeps pushing us forward towards the ultimate prize, which is being No. 1 in the world and winning World Cups.Whenever you are part of a team that keeps winning, you do get that momentum and get on a roll. It is massively important to keep momentum in sport, so tthat is what we want to do. Cheap Air Max 95 Wholesale. If all four visitors to Twickenham are dispatched over the coming weekends, England will have equaled their own record of 14 successive victories.Jones has pieced together a nine-Test winning run since replacing Stuart Lancaster and has targeted a flawless record for 2016.It would be amazing if we did that. We want to win every game and we believe we can do that, Brown said.It would be amazing to do that but we are just focused on our next game, which is South Africa. That will be a huge challenge. We havent beaten them for so long and no-one in our squad has ever beaten them.Eddie is looking at the bigger picture, but we are all fully focused on that first game.All 34 players who trained in Portugal last week convened at the squads Surrey training base on Sunday afternoon.Lock Courtney Lawes will be given until Tuesday to prove his fitness from a knee injury, while Mako Vunipola was struggling early last week because of a hip problem. ' ' '