Porsche European Open R1

European Open 2021 R1
June 05-07
Green Eagle Golf Courses, Hamburg, Germany
€1,200,000
Round 2, Round 3

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Belgian Thomas Detry birdied his final four holes to close with a 68 and take a one shot lead in the Porsche European Open at Green Eagle Golf Courses.

“I’m very pleased with the way I’ve been playing. I hit 12 fairways today, some really good golf so I’m pleased with it and I’m looking forward to the next couple of days.”

European Open 2021 R1

Despite winning the ISPS HANDA Melbourne World Cup of Golf in 2018 alongside Thomas Pieters, Detry has yet to win on the European Tour in 113 starts but has had three runner-up finishes, two of them last season.

“The golf course is really tough this week, it’s almost a U.S. Open set up,” he said. “I played the front nine really steady, my first nine holes, didn’t really make anything and made a little mistake – a bogey – but on the back nine I got it going.

European Open 2021 R1

“It’s very Major. I played the US PGA two weeks ago and it’s a similar approach, you have to drive it on the fairway otherwise it’s really penalising.

“In a way that’s golf that suits me a bit more, I tend to struggle on easy courses where you’re forced to make birdies otherwise you’re losing ground and it’s a completely different approach on this golf course.

European Open 2021 R1

Swede Alexander Björk, England’s Ashley Chesters, Scot David Law and China’s Wu Ashun are tied for second place at three-under.

Chesters, who fired three birdies, two bogeys and an eagle at the 9th, narrowly missed out on a share of the lead when he missed a 13 footer on his last hole.

“I hit some nice shots,” said Chesters. “I started by hitting it to three foot on the second, the par three, I hit a lovely five iron. I hit a terrible iron shot into the next, but after that I went back to what I was doing on the second. I hit some really nice shots, some good iron shots close.

“The rough is a big difference, there’s a few places where you could hit it… like on the fourth, you could take the corner and if you get that wrong you’ll have a lost ball. The 14th is a big change, it’s a completely different hole. The others aren’t quite as noticeable. But they’ve done a good job, even the short game area, they’ve put quite a lot of money into changing everything .

The Saturday start this year is a result of Covid-19 rules in Germany as fans return to fairways for the first time in Europe since October 2019.

European Open 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Thomas Detry *	-4	68
T2	Alexander Björk *	-3	69
T2	Ashun Wu	-3	69
T2	David Law	-3	69
T2	Ashley Chesters	-3	69
T6	Benjamin Hebert	-2	70
T6	Rikard Karlberg	-2	70
T6	Benjamin Poke	-2	70
T6	Marcel Schneider	-2	70
T6	Matthew Southgate	-2	70
T6	Scott Jamieson	-2	70
T12	Matthias Schwab *	-1	71
T12	Bernd Ritthammer *	-1	71
T12	Emilio Cuartero Blanco *	-1	71
T12	Darius van Driel *	-1	71
T12	Dale Whitnell *	-1	71
T12	Ryan Fox	-1	71
T12	Maverick Antcliff *	-1	71
T12	Jazz Janewattananond	-1	71
T12	Cormac Sharvin *	-1	71
T21	Paul Peterson *	E	72
T21	Rhys Enoch *	E	72
T21	Tapio Pulkkanen *	E	72
T21	Joachim B. Hansen	E	72
T21	Adrian Otaegui	E	72
T21	Dimitrios Papadatos *	E	72
T21	Sean Crocker *	E	72
T21	Marcus Armitage	E	72
T21	David Drysdale	E	72
T21	Yi Keun Chang	E	72
T21	Josh Geary	E	72
T21	Jonathan Caldwell *	E	72
T21	Kurt Kitayama *	E	72
T21	Zander Lombard *	E	72
T21	Clement Sordet *	E	72
T36	Ajeetesh Sandhu *	+1	73
T36	Bernd Wiesberger *	+1	73
T36	Adri Arnaus *	+1	73
T36	Pedro Oriol *	+1	73
T36	Jordan Smith	+1	73
T36	Martin Kaymer	+1	73
T36	Joakim Lagergren	+1	73
T36	Wil Besseling	+1	73
T36	Pablo Larrazabal	+1	73
T36	Jack Senior	+1	73
T46	Pedro Figueiredo *	+2	74
T46	Renato Paratore *	+2	74
T46	Niall Kearney *	+2	74
T46	Florian Fritsch *	+2	74
T46	Toby Tree *	+2	74
T46	Graeme Storm	+2	74
T46	Kalle Samooja	+2	74
T46	Jason Scrivener	+2	74
T46	Marcel Siem	+2	74
T46	Thorbjørn Olesen	+2	74
T46	Mikko Korhonen *	+2	74
T46	Maximilian Kieffer *	+2	74
T46	Aaron Rai *	+2	74
T46	Min Woo Lee	+2	74
T46	Stephen Gallacher	+2	74
T46	Nicolai Højgaard	+2	74
T62	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+3	75
T62	Lee Slattery	+3	75
T62	Rasmus Højgaard *	+3	75
T62	Justin Walters *	+3	75
T62	Paul Casey *	+3	75
T62	Edoardo Molinari *	+3	75
T62	Garrick Porteous *	+3	75
T62	Sebastian Heisele	+3	75
T62	Adrian Meronk	+3	75
T62	Connor Syme	+3	75
T62	Raphael Jacquelin	+3	75
T62	Oliver Wilson	+3	75
T62	Oliver Farr	+3	75
T62	Janne Kaske	+3	75
T76	Marc Hammer (a)	+4	76
T76	Masahiro Kawamura *	+4	76
T76	Paul Dunne *	+4	76
T76	Nick Bachem *	+4	76
T76	Ondrej Lieser (a) *	+4	76
T76	Tomás Bessa *	+4	76
T76	Julian Suri	+4	76
T76	Joost Luiten	+4	76
T76	Laurie Canter	+4	76
T76	Abraham Ancer	+4	76
T76	David Horsey *	+4	76
T76	Calum Hill	+4	76
T76	Michael Lorenzo-Vera *	+4	76
T76	Wade Ormsby	+4	76
T76	Lars van Meijel	+4	76
T76	Søren Kjeldsen	+4	76
T76	Lucas Bjerregaard *	+4	76
T76	Jannik De Bruyn *	+4	76
T76	Sami Valimaki *	+4	76
T95	Aaron Cockerill	+5	77
T95	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	+5	77
T95	Richie Ramsay	+5	77
T95	Lorenzo Gagli	+5	77
T95	Carlos Pigem *	+5	77
T95	Deyen Lawson *	+5	77
T95	Romain Langasque *	+5	77
T95	Justin Harding *	+5	77
T95	Henrik Stenson	+5	77
T95	Francesco Laporta	+5	77
T95	Freddy Schott *	+5	77
T95	Gavin Kyle Green *	+5	77
T95	Julien Guerrier *	+5	77
T95	Jake McLeod *	+5	77
T109	Shubhankar Sharma *	+6	78
T109	Richard Mansell (a) *	+6	78
T109	Alejandro Cañizares *	+6	78
T109	Jorge Campillo *	+6	78
T109	Joel Stalter	+6	78
T109	Daniel van Tonder	+6	78
T109	Suradit Yongcharoenchai *	+6	78
T109	Peter Hanson	+6	78
T109	Sihwan Kim	+6	78
T109	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	+6	78
T109	Kristoffer Broberg	+6	78
T109	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	+6	78
T109	Haydn Porteous *	+6	78
T122	Max Schmitt	+7	79
T122	Ricardo Santos	+7	79
T122	Sebastian Soderberg	+7	79
T122	Steven Brown	+7	79
T122	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	+7	79
T122	Eduardo De la Riva *	+7	79
T122	Gregory Havret *	+7	79
T122	Scott Hend *	+7	79
T131	Benedict Staben	+8	80
T131	Alexander Levy	+8	80
T131	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	+8	80
T131	Chris Paisley	+8	80
T135	Jarryd Felton	+9	81
T135	Ben Evans *	+9	81
T135	James Morrison *	+9	81
T135	Ross Fisher	+9	81
T135	Robin Roussel *	+9	81
T135	Johannes Veerman *	+9	81
T135	Niklas Lemke *	+9	81
T142	Julian Kunzenbacher *	+10	82
T142	Matthias Schmid (a)	+10	82
T142	Callum Shinkwin *	+10	82
145	Moritz Lampert	+11	83
T146	Pep Angles *	+12	84
T146	Georg Schultes *	+12	84
T146	Richard McEvoy *	+12	84
T149	Michael Hirmer *	+13	85
T149	Matt Ford	+13	85
T149	Adrien Saddier *	+13	85
152	Tom Gandy *	+14	86
WD	Nino Bertasio	+7
WD	Jeff Winther	+6
* Player started on the back nine