CZECH OPEN REPORT, SCORES

Peter Hanson is the Danger Man

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Peter Hanson lurks as the biggest danger to first-round leader Shiv Kapur at the Czech Open - and to Paul Casey in the Ryder Cup race.
The 32-year-old Swede will oust the absent Casey from Europe's top nine with victory at the Prosper Resort in Celadna on Sunday, and a five-under-par 67 has left him just one behind Kapur.
Hanson lies 15th in the points race, but there is a £272,640 first prize and, as one of only two of the world's top 50 in the field, it is a golden opportunity.
The other is Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez. Currently eighth on the cup table, he started with a 71 and should be concerned about the possibility of being overtaken by Hanson as well.
English trio Simon Dyson, Oliver Wilson and Ross McGowan are also chasing a spot in Colin Montgomerie's side and they shot 70, 72 and 73 respectively.
Asked about the controversial decision of Casey - and also Padraig Harrington and Luke Donald, both of whom are just outside a qualifying spot - not to enter next week's race-ending Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, Hanson clearly stated his view.
"If you have a chance to make the team or especially if you want a pick (like Justin Rose, another stay-away) it might be good to play," he said.
After two weeks in America during which he was eighth at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational - that made him top European - Hanson made the long trip after asking for and receiving a sponsor's invitation on Monday.
Kapur led from the moment he had six successive birdies from the second after teeing off at 7.20am. Kapur, ranked 256th in the world and 100th on the European Tour this season, started the inward half with back-to-back bogeys, but then birdied the 16th and 18th to hold off the chasing pack.
Hanson shares second with Argentina's Tano Goya, while Dyson shook off jet-lag - he could not get a flight back from the States until Monday night and then flew on to Prague and caught a train to Ostrava - with four closing birdies.
FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
66 Shiv Kapur (Ind)
67 Peter Hanson (Swe), Tano Goya (Arg)
68 Richard Bland, Julien Guerrier (Fra)
69 Scott Hend (Aus), Richard Finch, Rick Kulacz (Aus), Clodomiro Carranza (Arg), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa)
70 Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Phillip Price, Pelle Edberg (Swe), Simon Dyson, Peter Lawrie, Anthony Wall, Marc Warren, Miles Tunnicliff, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe), Michael Hoey
71 Anthony Kang (USA), Nathan Smith (USA), Andrew Butterfield, Robert Coles, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Graeme Storm
72 Martin Wiegele (Aut), Christian Cevaer (Fra), Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Steve Webster, Oliver Wilson, Scott Drummond, Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Simon Lilly, David Drysdale, Stephen Dodd, Jamie Donaldson, Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Ariel Canete (Arg)
73 John Parry, Paul Waring, Soren Hansen (Den), Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel), David Lynn, Mark Brown (Nzl), Carlos Rodiles (Spa), Gary Murphy, Tony Carolan (Aus), Niclas Fasth (Swe), Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Ross McGowan, Thomas Levet (Fra)
74 Fredrik Ohlsson (Swe), Viktor Skalle (Cze), Damien McGrane, Brett Rumford (Aus), Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Robert Rock, Marco Ruiz (Par), Stephen Gallacher, Alastair Forsyth, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa), Mark Foster, Pablo Martin (Spa), Sebi Garcia (Spa), Bradley Dredge
75 Marco Soffietti (Ita), Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Martin Prihoda (Cze), Richard McEvoy, Johan Axgren (Swe), Daniel Vancsik (Arg), Sam Hutsby, Jamie Elson, Mark F Haastrup (Den), Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, David Dixon
76 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned), Henrik Nystrom (Swe), Christian Nilsson (Swe), Filip Mruzek (Cze), George Coetzee (Rsa), Steven O'Hara, Terry Pilkadaris (Aus), Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind), Gary Clark, Markus Brier (Aut), Chapchai Nirat (Tha)
77 Andrew Tampion (Aus), Jonathan Lomas, Sam Little, Petr Zima (Cze)
78 Gary Lockerbie, Jurgen Maurer (Aut), Keith Horne (Rsa), Julien Quesne (Fra)
79 Peter Whiteford, Nick Dougherty, Ondrej Lieser (Cze)
80 Phillip Archer, Jan Ryba (Cze), Ondrej Lebl (Cze)
87 Jakub Svarc (Cze)
89 Petr Skopovy (Cze)
93 Martin Rudecky (Cze)