PLEASINGTON'S Ged Furey is lying one shot off European Tour player Paul Eales in the first round of the £10,000 James Brearley Lancashire Open at Blackpool North Shore.

Eales, the Royal Lytham-attached professional, handed in a seven-under-par 64 after Furey, a four-time winner of the event, bogeyed the last hole when he overshot the green. Wilpshire's Simon Townend was on 68.