July 2005 in Sports - 14 July 2005

14 July 2005

• Golf: The Open Championship
  • Tiger Woods leads after the first round at The Old Course at St Andrews with a six-under par 66. Jack Nicklaus, playing in his final competitive event at this year's Open Championship on The Old Course, shot a three-over par 75.(AP/ESPN)
• Baseball
  • The San Francisco Giants defeated their hated rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–3, to win their 10,000th game in the club's history, the most of any professional sports franchise.
• Football: UEFA Cup 2005–06 First Qualifying Round, first leg.
  • Baskimi 0 – 0 Zepce
  • Birkirkara 0 – 2 APOEL
  • Sant Julià 0 – 5 Rapid Bucureşti
  • Teuta 3 – 1 Široki Brijeg
  • Elbasani 1 – 1 Vardar
  • Omonia 3 – 0 Hibernians
  • Domagnano 0 – 5 Domzale
  • Ferencváros 0 – 2 MTZ-RIPO
  • Banants 2 – 3 Lokomotivi Tbilisi
  • Torpedo Kutaisi 0 – 1 BATE Borisov
  • Vaduz 2 – 0 Dacia Chişinău
  • Baku 1 – 0 Žilina
  • Mainz 05 4 – 0 MIKA
  • Nistru Otaci 3 – 1 Khazar Lenkoran
  • Longford Town 2 – 0 Carmarthen Town
  • Ekranas 0 – 2 Cork City
  • ÍBV 1 – 1 B36
  • Allianssi 3 – 0 Pétange
  • Linfield 1 – 0 Ventspils
  • NSÍ 0 – 3 Metalurgs
  • Etzella 0 – 4 Keflavik
  • Portadown 1 – 2 Viking Stavanger
  • TVMK 1 – 1 MyPa
  • Rhyl 2 – 1 Atlantas
  • EfB 1 – 2 Flora Tallinn
• Cycling: Tour de France
  • Stage 12 of the Tour, 187 km from Briançon to Digne les Bains. Before the stage begins, maillot vert competition leader Tom Boonen withdraws from the race following his fall in yesterday's stage. 166 riders remain in the race. Appropriately for Bastille Day, the stage is won by a Frenchman, David Moncoutié (Cofidis) in 4 hr 20 min 06 sec, followed by Sandy Casar (Française Des Jeux), Ángel Vicioso (LSW), Patrice Halgand (Crédit Agricole), José Luis Arrieta, Franco Pellizotti and Axel Merckx, all at +57 secs. The General Classification remains unchanged, Lance Armstrong finished in the peloton in 41st place, 10 mins 32 seconds behind Moncoutié. (Le Tour)