Commercial Bank Qatar Masters R1

Qatar Masters 2021 R1

March 11-14
Education City Golf Club, Education City, Doha, Qatar
US$1,500,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Scotland’s David Law carded the joint-lowest round of his European Tour career to take the lead at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.

The 29-year-old signed for a seven under par 64 at Education City Golf Club, holding a one stroke lead after a bogey-free first round.

“I’ve been guilty over the last few weeks when I’ve had decent rounds going but not finishing them off. I was semi-conscious of sticking with it and trying to go low. I was really happy with how I stuck to my routines, my processes and I came out of it with a good score.”

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“I’m a lot more focused on my targets rather than my golf swings. Over the last couple of seasons I’ve been guilty of asking myself why I’ve been hitting bad shots, instead of just going on to hit the next one. Over the break we had I sat down with my coach Alan McCloskey and Paul Lawrie, we discussed it and it’s all about getting the ball in the hole now, trusting that you’ve done the hard work and the work’s done.”

Law made a fast start with birdies on his opening three holes and made two further gains before the turn. He then birdied the par five 13th hole before his seventh on the day on the 15th , which moved him one stroke ahead of Italy’s Nino Bertasio, Hennie Du Plessis of South Africa, England’s Richard McEvoy and Kalle Samooja of Finland.

“That was probably one of the easiest 65s I’ve ever shot,” said McEvoy. “My game hasn’t been great up until now. Three weeks in the Middle East at the start of the year wasn’t great, but there were signs of some good golf going on.”

“I did some good work at home over the last few weeks with my coach, trying to practice with lockdowns and home schooling three days a week. It hasn’t been easy to get in, but managed to get what I could done. I played some very solid golf, putting on 18 holes and didn’t leave myself anything to do. The bogey on the 11 th was a three-putt, so overall it was very solid.”

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Belgium’s Thomas Detry shares sixth place with European Tour winners Joachim B. Hansen, Garrick Higgo and Joakim Lagergren on five under par, while Jorge Campillo began his title defence with a four under par round of 67.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	David Law	-7	64
T2	Hennie du Plessis *	-6	65
T2	Nino Bertasio *	-6	65
T2	Kalle Samooja	-6	65
T2	Richard McEvoy *	-6	65
T6	Thomas Detry *	-5	66
T6	Garrick Higgo *	-5	66
T6	Joakim Lagergren	-5	66
T6	Joachim B. Hansen	-5	66
T10	Jorge Campillo	-4	67
T10	Fabrizio Zanotti	-4	67
T10	Chris Paisley *	-4	67
T10	Gaganjeet Bhullar *	-4	67
T10	Jeff Winther *	-4	67
T10	Pedro Figueiredo	-4	67
T10	Toby Tree	-4	67
T10	Maximilian Kieffer *	-4	67
T10	Scott Jamieson *	-4	67
T10	George Coetzee *	-4	67
T10	Kurt Kitayama *	-4	67
T21	Thomas Pieters *	-3	68
T21	Louis De Jager	-3	68
T21	Lorenzo Gagli	-3	68
T21	Matthieu Pavon	-3	68
T21	Francesco Laporta	-3	68
T21	Sean Crocker	-3	68
T21	Dale Whitnell *	-3	68
T21	Shergo Al Kurdi (a) *	-3	68
T21	Alexander Björk *	-3	68
T21	Darren Fichardt *	-3
T21	Jack Senior	-3	68
T21	Jamie Donaldson	-3	68
T33	Eddie Pepperell	-2	69
T33	Brandon Stone	-2	69
T33	Jazz Janewattananond	-2	69
T33	Steven Brown	-2	69
T33	Shaun Norris	-2	69
T33	Rhys Enoch	-2	69
T33	Dave Coupland	-2	69
T33	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño *	-2
T33	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez *	-2	69
T33	Marcus Armitage *	-2	69
T33	Jordan Smith *	-2	69
T33	Lars van Meijel	-2	69
T33	Maverick Antcliff	-2	69
T33	Edoardo Molinari	-2	69
T33	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-2	69
T33	Antoine Rozner *	-2	69
T33	Wilco Nienaber *	-2	69
T33	Andy Sullivan *	-2	69
T33	Richie Ramsay *	-2	69
T33	Wade Ormsby *	-2	69
T33	Garrick Porteous *	-2	69
T33	Adrian Otaegui *	-2	69
T33	Joost Luiten *	-2	69
T33	Connor Syme *	-2	69
T57	Cormac Sharvin *	-1	70
T57	Marcus Kinhult *	-1	70
T57	Adri Arnaus *	-1	70
T57	David Drysdale *	-1	70
T57	Justin Harding *	-1	70
T57	Julian Suri	-1	70
T57	Darius van Driel	-1	70
T57	Rikard Karlberg	-1	70
T57	SSP Chawrasia	-1	70
T57	Richard Bland *	-1	70
T57	Niklas Lemke *	-1	70
T57	Raphael Jacquelin *	-1	70
T57	Yi Keun Chang	-1	70
T57	Stephen Gallacher	-1	70
T57	Kyong-Jun Moon	-1	70
T57	Romain Langasque	-1	70
T57	Ross McGowan	-1	70
T57	Callum Shinkwin	-1	70
T57	Gregory Havret	-1	70
T57	John Catlin	-1	70
T57	Sebastian Heisele *	-1
T78	Haotong Li	E	71
T78	Guido Migliozzi	E	71
T78	Nicolas Colsaerts	E	71
T78	Ricardo Santos	E	71
T78	Shubhankar Sharma *	E	71
T78	Benjamin Poke	E	71
T78	Clement Sordet	E	71
T78	Johannes Veerman	E	71
T78	Oliver Wilson	E	71
T78	Grant Forrest	E	71
T78	Benjamin Hebert	E	71
T78	Matthias Schwab	E	71
T78	Laurie Canter *	E	71
T78	Alexander Levy *	E	71
T78	Bernd Ritthammer *	E	71
T93	Søren Kjeldsen *	1	72
T93	Robert Rock *	1	72
T93	Masahiro Kawamura *	1	72
T93	Gavin Kyle Green *	1	72
T93	Adrian Meronk	1	72
T93	Ashley Chesters *	1	72
T93	Wil Besseling *	1	72
T93	Calum Hill	1	72
T93	Pablo Larrazabal	1	72
T102	Chris Wood	2	73
T102	Joel Stalter	2	73
T102	Alejandro Cañizares *	2	73
T102	Justin Walters *	2	73
T102	Zander Lombard *	2	73
T102	Saleh Al Kaabi (a) *	2	73
T102	Matthew Southgate	2	73
T102	Aaron Cockerill	2	73
T102	David Howell	2	73
T102	Matthew Jordan	2	73
T102	Oliver Farr	2	73
T102	Aaron Rai *	2	73
T102	Sebastian Soderberg *	2	73
T102	Robin Roussel *	2	73
T116	Dean Burmester *	3	74
T116	Paul Dunne	3	74
T116	Ewen Ferguson	3	74
T116	Scott Hend *	3	74
T116	Kristoffer Reitan *	3	74
T116	Haydn Porteous *	3	74
T116	Rasmus Højgaard	3	74
T123	Lee Slattery	4	75
T123	Tae Hee Lee	4	75
T123	Ayoub Lguirati (a)	4	75
T123	Robin Sciot-Siegrist *	4	75
T123	James Morrison *	4	75
T123	Tapio Pulkkanen *	4	75
T123	Adrien Saddier	4	75
T123	Jonathan Caldwell	4	75
T123	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	4	75
T132	Sihwan Kim *	5	76
T132	Alvaro Quiros *	5	76
T132	Ross Fisher *	5	76
T132	Ruan Jordaan	5	76
T136	Lucas Bjerregaard *	6	77
T136	Daan Huizing *	6	77
T136	Marc Warren *	6	77
T139	Oliver Fisher *	7	78
T139	Carlos Pigem *	7	78
T139	Renato Paratore	7	78
142	Jaham Al Kuwari (a) *	8	79
143	Ali Al Shahrani (a)	11	82
* Player started on the back nine