Robert MacIntyre took a two-stroke first-round lead at the Made in HimmerLand with an impressive round of 64.
The Scot fired five birdies in seven holes on the back nine to reach six under par and surpass the early clubhouse leader Ross Fisher, who made 66 in the morning wind and rain on a tough day of scoring in Farsø in northern Denmark.
MacIntyre got up and running with a birdie at the 2nd and another courtesy of a superb approach to the 5th.
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He alternated bogeys and birdies around the turn, dropping shots at the 8th and 10th but birdieing the 9th and 11th, the latter after a long bobbling putt from off the green, before holing from 32 feet at the 12th.
He hit the front with another pair of back-to-back birdies thanks to a good up-and-down from beside the 14th green and a long putt at the next. Another from seven feet at the 17th took him two clear.
Fisher was out in 33 with birdies at the 2nd and 6th, otherwise parring every hole until the 13th before an eventful finish to his round.
The Englishman birdied the 14th and 15th, dropped a shot at the 97-yard 16th but regained it with an eight-foot putt at the next to finish four under.
American Johannes Veerman produced a bogey-free round to share third place on three under with German Nick Bachem, a winner on this season’s DP World Tour at the Jonsson Workwear Open, and Dutchman Daan Huizing, a top-10 finisher at the recent BMW International Open.
Danish duo Rasmus Hojgaard and Lucas Bjerregaard were in the mix on home soil after rounds of 68. They were joined in sixth place by Frenchman Alexander Levy and Fisher’s compatriot Andy Sullivan.
South Africans Louis de Jager and Zander Lombard both carded 71, with Hennie du Plessis, Darren Fichardt and Ockie Strydom a further shot behind.
– Edited report from DP World Tour website
