BRILLIANT BOURDY LEADS BY TWO IN SWITZERLAND

Grégory Bourdy carded the joint lowest of his European Tour career to finish the first day of the Omega European Masters with a two-shot lead.

Aided by his caddie John Mulrooney, who was on the bag for Darren Clarke’s Open Championship triumph last year, Bourdy defied driving rain at Crans-sur-Sierre, in the stunning Alpine resort of Crans Montana, to post a flawless eight under par round of 63.

That matched his previous best effort at the 2008 Estoril Open de Portugal, a tournament he went on to win, and the Frenchman is hoping the omens are good as he goes in search of his fourth European Tour title at this week’s €2.1million tournament.

Bourdy said: “It was just a great day, I don’t think I’ve ever played better. I played very well on the first day in Portrush, but that was right up there. This course isn’t the most difficult, but it’s not the easiest either because you have to hit the ball very straight, and I managed to do that today. I only missed one shot all day, but still managed to save par. My attitude was very good, I was very positive and that’s why I finished very well.”

Second place is shared by Sweden’s Fredrik Andersson Hed and England’s Oliver Fisher, who both notched seven birdies and a solitary bogey to sign for rounds of 65.

 

EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
==========================================

 LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
  Par 71. Yardage 6,889

63 Gregory BOURDY (FRA).

65 Fredrik ANDERSSON HED (SWE), Oliver FISHER (ENG).

66 Anirban LAHIRI (IND), Rhys DAVIES (WAL), Robert COLES (ENG), Scott BARR (AUS), David HOWELL (ENG).

67 Markus BRIER (AUT), Niclas FASTH (SWE), Johan EDFORS (SWE), Sam LITTLE (ENG), Andrew DODT (AUS), Stephen GALLACHER (SCO), Danny WILLETT (ENG), Romain WATTEL (FRA).

68 Marcus FRASER (AUS), Lee SLATTERY (ENG), Anders HANSEN (DEN), FELIPE AGUILAR (CHI), Julien QUESNE (FRA), Thomas LEVET (FRA), Graeme STORM (ENG), David DRYSDALE (SCO), Jose Manuel LARA (ESP), Bernd WIESBERGER (AUT), Jyoti RANDHAWA (IND), Marcel SIEM (GER), Berry HENSON (USA), Martin ROMINGER (SUI), Phillip PRICE (WAL), Victor DUBUISSON (FRA)

OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
69 Scott Jamieson, Paul Lawrie, Richie Ramsay (T33)
70 George Murray (T50)
71 Peter Whiteford (T70)
72 Colin Montgomerie (T92)
76 Marc Warren (T142)
77 Ross Bain (T145)

TO VIEW ALL THE SCORES

CLICK HERE