DS Automobiles Italian Open R1

Italian Open 2021 R1
September 02-05
Marco Simone GC, Rome, Italy
€3,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Sweden’s Henrik Stenson continues his recent run of good form with a bogey-free 64 to take a share of the opening lead of the DS Automobiles Italian Open, strengthening his case for making the European Ryder Cup team.

Italian Open 2021 R1

“Once again I think I played a good round of golf. I don’t want to make any mistakes in terms of missing fairways and greens, but the few times I did I managed to keep a clean card and made some lovely putts to keep it tidy, so very happy with that.

“More than anything I feel like I am in a good frame of mind to play golf and to try and get the best score out of my game.

“There is still more to wish for, but we’ve got to take the positives and keep on working on the rest.”

Italian Open 2021 R1

Australin Min Woo Lee’s round was marred by a single bogey but he produced eight birdies to take his share of the lead as did Finland’s Kalle Samooja.

“There was some good golf today,” said Samooja. “Comparing to last week, I was really struggling with everything and today I wasn’t struggling with anything, so it was a nice morning walk.

Italian Open 2021 R1

“I was missing everything last week with the putter and the driver. I had a few good practice days, and this course seems nice, and the greens are pure.

“You need to play some good golf here, hit some good shots to go low and that’s what I managed to do today.”

Italian Open 2021 R1

Home favourite Edoardo Molinari is tied in fourth place at 6-under having shot a hole-in-one at the par-3 7th as well as six birdies and two bogeys.

Tied alongside him are England’s Eddie Pepperell and Australian Scott Hend.

“I hit a lot of good iron shots and I holed a couple of putts as well, strange round really,” said Pepperell. “I didn’t feel too comfortable off the tee, a bizarre shot on the last which was a bit of a shame, you know I am working with a new coach , and I am trying to turn my year and arguably my career around a little bit, so this is a good step forward.”

Italian Open 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
T1	Kalle Samooja *	-7	64
T1	Min Woo Lee	-7	64
T1	Henrik Stenson	-7	64
T4	Edoardo Molinari *	-6	65
T4	Eddie Pepperell	-6	65
T4	Scott Hend	-6	65
T7	Tommy Fleetwood *	-5	66
T7	Adri Arnaus	-5	66
T7	Nicolai Højgaard *	-5	66
T7	Francesco Laporta *	-5	66
T11	Steven Brown	-4	67
T11	Ross Fisher *	-4	67
T11	Benjamin Hebert *	-4	67
T11	Masahiro Kawamura *	-4	67
T11	Adrien Saddier	-4	67
T11	Johannes Veerman *	-4	67
T17	Mikko Korhonen	-3	68
T17	Robin Roussel	-3	68
T17	Brandon Stone	-3	68
T17	Julian Suri *	-3	68
T21	Maverick Antcliff *	-2	69
T21	Jorge Campillo	-2	69
T21	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-2	69
T21	Oliver Farr	-2	69
T21	Gavin Kyle Green	-2	69
T21	Julien Guerrier	-2	69
T21	David Horsey *	-2	69
T21	Sam Horsfield	-2	69
T21	Maximilian Kieffer *	-2	69
T21	Alexander Levy	-2	69
T21	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	-2	69
T21	Francesco Molinari *	-2	69
T21	Wilco Nienaber	-2	69
T21	Callum Shinkwin	-2	69
T21	Dale Whitnell *	-2	69
T21	Bernd Wiesberger	-2	69
T37	Marcus Armitage	-1	70
T37	Richard Bland *	-1	70
T37	Dean Burmester	-1	70
T37	Filippo Celli (a) *	-1	70
T37	Ashley Chesters *	-1	70
T37	Dave Coupland	-1	70
T37	Victor Dubuisson	-1	70
T37	Garrick Higgo	-1	70
T37	Scott Jamieson *	-1	70
T37	Pablo Larrazabal *	-1	70
T37	Adrian Meronk	-1	70
T37	Victor Perez *	-1	70
T37	Thomas Pieters *	-1	70
T37	Haydn Porteous *	-1	70
T37	Julien Quesne *	-1	70
T37	Matthew Southgate *	-1	70
T37	Andy Sullivan *	-1	70
T37	Sami Valimaki	-1	70
T37	Jacopo Vecchi Fossa (a)	-1	70
T37	Paul Waring *	-1	70
T37	Daniel van Tonder *	-1	70
T58	Jonathan Caldwell *	E	71
T58	David Drysdale *	E	71
T58	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño *	E	71
T58	Daniel Gavins *	E	71
T58	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	E	71
T58	Matthew Jordan	E	71
T58	Rikard Karlberg	E	71
T58	Joakim Lagergren	E	71
T58	Tae Hee Lee *	E	71
T58	Joost Luiten	E	71
T58	Adrian Otaegui *	E	71
T58	Renato Paratore *	E	71
T58	Matthieu Pavon	E	71
T58	Antoine Rozner	E	71
T58	Joel Stalter *	E	71
T73	Laurie Canter *	+1	72
T73	John Catlin	+1	72
T73	George Coetzee	+1	72
T73	Sean Crocker	+1	72
T73	Thomas Detry *	+1	72
T73	Jamie Donaldson *	+1	72
T73	Darren Fichardt	+1	72
T73	Matt Fitzpatrick *	+1	72
T73	Grant Forrest *	+1	72
T73	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	+1	72
T73	Joachim B. Hansen	+1	72
T73	Rasmus Højgaard *	+1	72
T73	Andrew Johnston *	+1	72
T73	Romain Langasque *	+1	72
T73	Guido Migliozzi	+1	72
T73	Thorbjørn Olesen	+1	72
T73	Wade Ormsby	+1	72
T73	Garrick Porteous *	+1	72
T73	Tapio Pulkkanen	+1	72
T73	Alvaro Quiros *	+1	72
T73	Andrea Romano (a) *	+1	72
T73	Marcel Siem	+1	72
T73	Justin Walters *	+1	72
T73	Chris Wood	+1	72
T73	Fabrizio Zanotti	+1	72
T98	Wil Besseling *	+2	73
T98	Lucas Bjerregaard *	+2	73
T98	Alexander Björk	+2	73
T98	Stephen Gallacher *	+2	73
T98	Justin Harding *	+2	73
T98	Marcus Kinhult *	+2	73
T98	Søren Kjeldsen *	+2	73
T98	Zander Lombard	+2	73
T98	Jordan Smith *	+2	73
T98	Sebastian Soderberg *	+2	73
T98	Matt Wallace *	+2	73
T98	Oliver Wilson	+2	73
T98	Darius van Driel *	+2	73
T111	Pietro Bovari (a)	+3	74
T111	Luke Donald	+3	74
T111	Gregory Havret	+3	74
T111	Kyong-Jun Moon	+3	74
T115	Nino Bertasio *	+4	75
T115	Davide Buchi *	+4	75
T115	Oliver Fisher	+4	75
T115	Lorenzo Gagli	+4	75
T115	Calum Hill *	+4	75
T115	Jazz Janewattananond	+4	75
T115	Martin Kaymer *	+4	75
T115	David Law	+4	75
T115	Giovanni Manzoni (a)	+4	75
T115	Richard McEvoy *	+4	75
T115	Ross McGowan	+4	75
T115	Chris Paisley *	+4	75
T115	Richie Ramsay *	+4	75
T115	Shubhankar Sharma	+4	75
T115	Joel Sjoholm	+4	75
T130	Aaron Cockerill	+5	76
T130	Gregorio De Leo *	+5	76
T130	Ryan Fox	+5	76
T130	Sebastian Heisele *	+5	76
T130	David Howell	+5	76
T130	Sihwan Kim	+5	76
T130	Robert Rock *	+5	76
T130	Ricardo Santos *	+5	76
T130	Lorenzo Scalise	+5	76
T130	Jeff Winther	+5	76
T140	Thomas Aiken *	+6	77
T140	Luca Cianchetti (a) *	+6	77
T140	Nicolas Colsaerts *	+6	77
T140	Enrico Di Nitto	+6	77
T140	Miguel Angel Jiménez	+6	77
T140	Stefano Mazzoli (a) *	+6	77
T140	James Morrison *	+6	77
T140	Jack Senior	+6	77
T140	Graeme Storm *	+6	77
T140	Connor Syme *	+6	77
T150	Cormac Sharvin	+7	78
T150	Aron Zemmer	+7	78
152	Federico Maccario	+8	79
153	Andrea Pavan *	+9	80
T154	Raphael Jacquelin *	+10	81
T154	Tommaso Perrino	+10	81
156	Marc Warren	+15	86
* Player started on the back nine