Thursday, June 02, 2016

Warren, Henry co-leaders at Nordea Masters

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
French rookies Clément Berardo and Sébastien Gros were part of a six-way tie for the lead as Lee Westwood made an excellent start in his bid to win a record fourth Nordea Masters today.
Berardo, who came through Qualifying School and has already finished third in Morocco during an impressive rookie campaign, recorded a remarkable nine birdies at Bro Hof Slott, Sweden on his way to a five under par 67.

That was matched by compatriot Gros, England’s Andrew Johnston, Germany’s Florian Fritsch and Scottish pair Scott Henry and Marc Warren on a tightly packed leaderboard.

Former World Number One Westwood is among those a shot further back and expects to be back in the winner's circle soon.

The 43 year old came into the event on the back of a disappointing result in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club, where he went into the final round two shots off the lead but struggled to a closing 76.
However, having finished second in the Masters Tournament and tenth in the Irish Open in his previous two starts, Westwood believes a 24th European Tour title could be just around the corner.
"Obviously it's nice to come back to places you've won on before, but I'm more happy with the fact that I'm starting to hit the ball really well and seeing the flight on the shots that I like and on the greens I rolled the ball really well today," Westwood said after a round containing six birdies and two bogeys.
Westwood won his first European Tour title in Sweden in 1996 and also tasted success in 2000 and 2012, as well as finishing runner-up in 2001.
The last of those wins came at this week's venue and a repeat performance from the nine-time Ryder Cup player would make him the first to win the event four times, with Colin Montgomerie and Seve Ballesteros having also won on three occasions.
Johnston, who won the Open de España in April and qualified for his US Open debut on Monday, carded five birdies and no bogeys in his 67, while Berardo fired nine birdies, four bogeys and just five pars.
“I’m thrilled,” said Johnston. “I played really solid golf from tee to green and managed to hole a few putts, so I’m delighted.
“I didn’t really have too much in the way of expectations this week because Wentworth was such a buys week, then I had the US Open qualifier on Monday so I was a bit tired when I got here.”
Fritsch, who refuses to fly and so has only managed one European Tour and three Challenge Tour starts so far this season, was pleased with his bogey-free round.

“I just have to make some complicated journeys but for the most part it’s fine,” he said. “I actually quite like it sometimes, because you get to see parts of Europe you wouldn’t otherwise see. I see it as a bit of an adventure.”

SCOREBOARD
par 72
 
T1 Clement Berardo 67






T1 Sebastien Gros 67






T1 Scott Henry 67






T1 Marc Warren 67






T1 Andrew Johnston* 67






T1 Florian Fritsch* 67






T7 Matthew Fitzpatrick 68






T7 Mikko Ilonen 68






T7 Lee Westwood* 68






T7 Ross Fisher* 68






T7 Alexander Bjork* 68






T7 Matt Wallace* 68






T7 Niclas Fasth* 68






T7 Joel Sjoholm* 68






T15 Richard S. Johnson 69






T15 Thomas Bjorn 69






T15 Alex Noren 69






T15 Richard Green* 69






T15 Haydn Porteous* 69






T15 Robert Karlsson* 69






T15 Soren Hansen* 69






T15 Michael Hoey* 69






T15 Christofer Blomstrand* 69






T15 Callum Shinkwin* 69






T15 Thomas Linard* 69






T15 Bjorn Akesson* 69






T27 Jens Dantorp 70






T27 Raphael Jacquelin 70






T27 Prom Meesawat 70






T27 Joakim Lagergren 70






T27 Joachim B. Hansen 70






T27 Oliver Wilson 70






T27 Nicolas Colsaerts 70






T27 Romain Wattel 70






T27 Kristoffer Broberg 70






T27 James Morrison 70






T27 Rikard Karlberg* 70






T27 Scott Hend* 70






T27 Soomin Lee* 70






T27 Julien Quesne* 70






T27 Ashun Wu* 70






T27 Jose-Filipe Lima* 70






T27 Paul Dunne* 70






T27 David Dixon* 70






T45 Chris Paisley 71






T45 Bjorn Hellgren 71






T45 Gary Boyd 71






T45 Magnus A. Carlsson 71






T45 Renato Paratore 71






T45 Daniel Brooks 71






T45 Alvaro Quiros 71






T45 Marcus Svensson 71






T45 Tyrrell Hatton 71






T45 Peter Lawrie 71






T45 Craig Lee 71






T45 Fabrizio Zanotti* 71






T45 Jean Hugo* 71






T45 Jeff Karlsson* 71






T45 Scott Jamieson* 71






T45 Malcolm Kokocinski* 71






T45 Jbe' Kruger* 71






T45 Johan Edfors* 71






T63 Sebastian Soderberg 72






T63 Jeff Winther 72






T63 Jorge Campillo 72






T63 David Lipsky 72






T63 Matteo Manassero 72






T63 Michael Jonzon 72






T63 Henrik Stenson* 72






T63 Richard McEvoy* 72






T63 Mike Lorenzo-Vera* 72






T63 Terry Pilkadaris* 72






T63 Lasse Jensen* 72






T63 Justin Walters* 72






T63 Ryan Evans* 72






T63 Chris Hanson* 72






T63 Zander Lombard* 72






T63 Hannes Ronneblad* 72






T79 Steven Jeppesen 73






T79 Ross McGowan 73






T79 Paul Lawrie 73






T79 Johan Carlsson 73






T79 James Robinson 73






T79 Philip Eriksson 73






T79 Daniel Gaunt 73






T79 Seve Benson 73






T79 Andrew McArthur 73






T79 Pelle Edberg 73






T79 Graeme Storm 73






T79 Laurie Canter 73






T79 Jack Senior 73






T79 Oliver Fisher* 73






T79 Felipe Aguilar* 73






T79 Stephen Gallacher* 73






T79 Nino Bertasio* 73






T79 Morten Orum Madsen* 73






T79 Tjaart Van der Walt* 73






T79 Mark Foster* 73






T79 Francesco Laporta* 73






T79 Ben Evans* 73






T79 Jason Scrivener* 73






T102 Adrian Otaegui 74






T102 Ricardo Gouveia 74






T102 Gregory Havret 74






T102 Mathias Johansson 74






T102 Shiv Kapur 74






T102 Eduardo De La Riva 74






T102 Simon Dyson 74






T102 Scott Arnold 74






T102 Richard Bland* 74






T102 Lucas Bjerregaard* 74






T102 Benjamin Hebert* 74






T102 Jamie McLeary* 74






T102 Oscar Bergqvist* 74






T102 Estanislao Goya* 74






T102 Robert Rock* 74






T102 Edoardo Molinari* 74






T102 Mikael Lundberg* 74






T119 Nacho Elvira 75






T119 Dimitrios Papadatos 75






T119 Lukas Nemecz 75






T119 Daniel Gavins* 75






T119 Sam Walker* 75






T119 Jeev Milkha Singh* 75






T119 Stuart Manley* 75






T119 Nicolo Ravano* 75






T119 Marcus Larsson* 75






T128 Jens Fahrbring 76






T128 Roope Kakko 76






T128 Bradley Dredge 76






T128 Brett Rumford 76






T128 Daniel Chopra 76






T128 Ryan Fox 76






T128 Borja Virto* 76






T128 Ulrich Van Den Berg* 76






T128 Pontus Widegren* 76






T128 Alexander Wennstam* 76






T128 Max Orrin* 76






T139 Rhys Davies 77






T139 Marcus Kinhult 77






T139 Alejandro Canizares 77






T139 Simon Khan 77






T139 Jeung-hun Wang 77






T139 Eddie Pepperell 77






T139 Robert Dinwiddie 77






T139 Tom Lewis* 77






T147 Daniel Im 78






T147 Y.E. Yang* 78






T147 Paul Peterson* 78






T150 Steve Webster 79






T150 Pablo Larrazabal* 79






T152 Andrew Dodt 80






T152   George Murray* 80






T154 Peter Hanson 81






T154 Matthew Baldwin* 81






156 Thomas Pieters 72






- Jin Jeong -






* player started on back nine.

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