Slattery (67) leads from start to finish

in SAS Masters at Malmo

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Henrik Stenson's hopes of donating the first prize of nearly £143,000 to his own charitable Foundation took a blow when he began the SAS Masters in Malmo with only a level par 73.
At 7,665 yards, Barseback, Stenson's home course, is the longest in European Tour history. The world number seven thought that would be in his favour, but he trails England's Lee Slattery by six - and was relieved it was not by far more.
"I played like a pig and got away with murder," said Stenson. "I didn't play well at all, but the little Seve and Houdini in me was out there."
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The Ryder Cup star was again wearing a green ribbon in his cap in support of an Iranian friend, as he did at The Open last week.
"It's a symbol for democracy in Iran and I felt it was an important gesture."
Slattery, ranked 497 places below Stenson, holds a one-stroke lead over Argentina's Ricardo Gonzalez.
Without a top 20 finish since he was fourth at the KLM Open in Holland last August, Slattery was first man to tee off at 7.30am and birdied the first four holes.
The last of those was a chip in and he did it again only two holes later before making a 10-footer on the long ninth to turn in a brilliant six under 30.
An hour-long suspension in play because of the threat of lightning took the wind out of the 30-year-old's sails, but after bogeying the long 12th on his return he got up and down from a greenside bunker at the 558-yard 16th and parred the last two for a six under 67 that kept him at the top of the leaderboard all day.
ALL THE FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 73. 7,665 yards
67 Lee Slattery
68 Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg)
69 Tano Goya (Arg), Klas Eriksson (Swe), Pablo Martin (Spa), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa)
70 Brett Rumford (Aus), Richie Ramsay, Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Branden Grace (Rsa), Oskar Henningsson (Swe)
71 Steve Webster, Gary Murphy, Alexander Noren (Swe), Magnus A Carlsson (Swe), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Marcel Siem (Ger), Jamie Donaldson, Danny Willett
72 Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Jeppe Huldahl (Den), Christian Nilsson (Swe), Gareth Maybin, Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Pelle Edberg (Swe), Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha), Marcus Higley, Niclas Fasth (Swe), Anders Sjostrand (Swe), Wade Ormsby (Aus), Sam Little, Michael Hoey, Marcus Fraser (Aus)
73 Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Jonathan Caldwell, Damien McGrane, James Driscoll (USA), Peter Lawrie, Will MacKenzie (USA), Callum Macaulay, Joel Sjoholm (Swe), Robert Rock, Andrew Oldcorn, Henrik Stenson (Swe), Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Mattias Eliasson (Swe), Paul Waring, Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Peter Gustafsson (Swe), David Lynn, Jacob Olesen (Den), Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Ross McGowan, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind)
74 Joakim Haeggman (Swe), James Kingston (Rsa), Robert Dinwiddie, Jean Van de Velde (Fra), Birgir Hafthorsson (Ice), Johan Wahlqvist (Swe), Johan Edfors (Swe), Peter Hanson (Swe), Wil Besseling (Ned), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Antti Ahokas (Fin), Santiago Luna (Spa), Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut), Jesper Parnevik (Swe), Richard Bland, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Scott Drummond, Simon Khan, Marc Cayeux (Zim), Richard S Johnson (Swe), Christopher Doak, Peter O'Malley (Aus), Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe)
75 Christian Cevaer (Fra), Nathan T Smith (USA), Stuart Davis, Ake Nilsson (Rsa), Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Per Barth (Swe), Simon Dyson, Joakim Rask (Swe), Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor), Matthew Millar (Aus), Taco Remkes (Ned), Phillip Archer, Barry Lane
76 John Mellor, Thomas Aiken (Rsa), Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe), Kenneth Ferrie, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Steven O'Hara, John E Morgan, Wilhelm Schauman (Swe), Bradley Dredge, Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Hennie Otto (Rsa), David Horsey, Andrew Coltart, Kane Webber (USA), Seve Benson, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), David Dixon, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned)
77 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), Robert Carlsson (Swe), Alvaro Velasco (Spa), Kyle Stanley (USA), Ben Mason, Daniel Vancsik (Arg), Marco Ruiz (Par), Iain Pyman, Marc Warren, Chapchai Nirat (Tha)
78 Michael Campbell (Nzl), Benn Barham, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Spa), Stuart Manley, Peter Hedblom (Swe), Anthony Snobeck (Fra), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Gary Lockerbie, Niklas Bruzelius (Swe), Rolf Muntz (Ned), Pontus Gad (Swe), Anders Larsson (Swe), Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Michael Jonzon (Swe), Miles Tunnicliff
79 Ulrich Van Den Berg (Rsa), Anton Haig (Rsa), David Frost (Rsa), Oliver Fisher, Andrew McLardy (Rsa), Simon Wakefield, Alexandre Rocha (Bra), Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Andre Bossert (Swi), Michael Curtain (Aus), Nils Floren (Swe)
80 Mattias Nordqvist (Swe), Kalle Brink (Swe), Carlos Franco (Par), Carlos Rodiles (Spa)
81 Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind)
82 Carlos Del Moral (Spa), Roope Kakko (Fin)
83 Magnus Bruhn (Swe)
85 Bjorn Akesson (Swe)
DQ: Magnus Bruhn (Swe)