September 24-27
Galgorm Castle Golf Club, Ballymena, Northern Ireland
โฌ 1,250,000
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There was a three-way tie at the top of the leaderboard after day one of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, as Dean Burmester, Jordan Smith and Aaron Rai all carded five under rounds of 65 at the tricky Galgorm Castle Golf Club.
โI'm still cold," said Burmester. "It's been a long time since I've woken up and hit balls in the dark too, but the greens were perfect and obviously it worked out for me today. I'm just happy to be back in the hut right now.
"For 16 holes I played flawless golf pretty much. I didn't really miss a shot. A couple of great up and downs kept the momentum going and then unfortunately on 17 I fell asleep over a three-footer but other than that, honestly I played great.
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"I think if you'd asked me three days ago when I got here if I'd take 65, I would have taken it. It's a beast of a golf course and I hit it good off the tee and if you do that around here, you'll do good, so 65 in round one โ anybody would be happy with that."
Play was suspended at the very end of the day with just one group left to finish, but the trio were safe at the top, one stroke clear of Englishman Toby Tree heading into day two in Northern Ireland, where the performance of a homegrown amateur player set tongues wagging.
Irishman James Sugrue, the 2019 Amateur Champion who played at last week's U.S. Open at Winged Foot, carded a three under 67 to sit just two shots off the pace - drawing comparisons with a famous amateur victory in this tournament by one Shane Lowry 11 years ago.
"I was in the U.S. Open last week and going from there to here is a little bit easier to say the least. It was very tough, very penal, you can hit good shots off the tee and end up ion the rough where you can only take a wedge out of it.
"But it was brilliant, I was delighted to be there. I probably almost felt last week like I was another number, but I said this week I need to forget that attitude and come out and play golf and enjoy it and get around in as few shots as possible."
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Lowry, returning to home soil for the first time as Open Champion this week, struggled to an opening five over 75 while European Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington carded a one over 71 in his first competitive appearance in six months.
"I want to go and win the tournament and it's hard to win the tournament when you're one over," said Harrington. "But I really enjoyed today, really enjoyed being out there and having a game. It was messy in places, just clubbing โ it doesn't matter what you do, you're just rusty out there, making decisions and some things didn't match up.
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"But there was lots of good stuff and even the bad stuff, I just put down to rust, so I was more than happy with it. It was nice to finish with a par, I wanted to birdie it obviously โ finishing with a birdie would have got me back to level par. I missed a couple of putts at 16 and 17, I'm just not playing enough. I really should have trusted my driver on my right to left, I haven't missed anything right all day and I hung onto it and got myself in trouble.
"But it was nice to hole that last one. The first couple of holes were good but then I lost my way a bit reading the greens. It's great to finish with a par and come out tomorrow with that."
Pos. |
Player | Thru |
To Par |
R1 |
T1 |
Dean Burmester | F |
-5 |
65 |
T1 |
Jordan Smith | F |
-5 |
65 |
T1 |
Aaron Rai | F |
-5 |
65 |
4 |
Toby Tree | F |
-4 |
66 |
T5 |
Oscar Lengden | F |
-3 |
67 |
T5 |
Rikard Karlberg | F |
-3 |
67 |
T5 |
James Sugrue (a) | F |
-3 |
67 |
T5 |
Stephen Gallacher | F |
-3 |
67 |
T5 |
John Catlin | F |
-3 |
67 |
T10 |
Justin Harding | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Garrick Higgo | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Jazz Janewattananond | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Scott Hend | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Lucas Bjerregaard | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Martin Simonsen | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Niklas Lemke | F |
-2 |
68 |
T10 |
Julien Guerrier | F |
-2 |
68 |
T18 |
Marcus Armitage | F |
-1 |
69 |
T18 |
David Law | F |
-1 |
69 |
T18 |
Ignacio Elvira Mijares | F |
-1 |
69 |
T18 |
Scott Jamieson | F |
-1 |
69 |
T18 |
Robert Rock | F |
-1 |
69 |
T23 |
Ben Stow | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Wade Ormsby | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Ewen Ferguson | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Graeme Storm | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Daan Huizing | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Joakim Lagergren | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Clement Sordet | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Jack Senior | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Calum Hill | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Wilco Nienaber | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Oliver Farr | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Damien Mcgrane | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Fabrizio Zanotti | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Jake McLeod | F |
E |
70 |
T23 |
Maverick Antcliff | F |
E |
70 |
T38 |
Jonathan Caldwell | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Steven Brown | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Lars van Meijel | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
George Coetzee | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Lucas Herbert | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Adrian Meronk | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Damien Perrier | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Joost Luiten | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Padraig Harrington | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Dale Whitnell | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Julian Suri | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Connor Syme | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Richie Ramsay | F |
1 |
71 |
T38 |
Alejandro Cañizares | F |
1 |
71 |
T52 |
Craig Howie | 17 |
2 |
|
T52 |
David Howell | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
James Morrison | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Sean Crocker | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Shubhankar Sharma | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Joachim B. Hansen | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Mathieu Fenasse (a) | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Mikko Korhonen | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Richard McEvoy | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Lee Slattery | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Richard Bland | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Dave Coupland | F |
2 |
72 |
T52 |
Callum Shinkwin | F |
2 |
72 |
T65 |
Matthew Baldwin | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Johannes Veerman | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Darius van Driel | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Jbe Kruger | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Jason Scrivener | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Antoine Rozner | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Ross McGowan | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Max Schmitt | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Laurie Canter | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Adri Arnaus | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Nicolas Colsaerts | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Tyler Koivisto | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Garrick Porteous | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Tom McKibbin | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
David Drysdale | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Robin Sciot-Siegrist | F |
3 |
73 |
T65 |
Kristoffer Reitan | 17 |
3 |
|
T65 |
Francesco Laporta | F |
3 |
73 |
T83 |
Carlos Pigem | 17 |
4 |
|
T83 |
Marc Warren | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Zach Murray | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Joël Stalter | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Sebastian Soderberg | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Gavin Moynihan | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Edoardo Molinari | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Romain Wattel | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Masahiro Kawamura | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Matthew Southgate | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Haydn Porteous | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Liam Johnston | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Wil Besseling | F |
4 |
74 |
T83 |
Bernd Ritthammer | F |
4 |
74 |
T97 |
Aaron Cockerill | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Gaganjeet Bhullar | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Steven Tiley | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Michael Campbell | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Shane Lowry | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Colm Moriarty | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Paul Dunne | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Marcus Kinhult | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Min Woo Lee | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Daniel Young (a) | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Mark Power (a) | F |
5 |
75 |
T97 |
Robin Roussel | F |
5 |
75 |
T109 |
Søren Kjeldsen | F |
6 |
76 |
T109 |
Ashun Wu | F |
6 |
76 |
T109 |
David Horsey | F |
6 |
76 |
T109 |
Benjamin Poke | F |
6 |
76 |
T109 |
Yikeun Chang | F |
6 |
76 |
114 |
Jeff Winther | F |
7 |
77 |
T115 |
Oliver Fisher | F |
8 |
78 |
T115 |
Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez | F |
8 |
78 |
T115 |
Ryan Fox | F |
8 |
78 |
118 |
Ashley Chesters | F |
9 |
79 |
T119 |
Andrea Pavan | F |
13 |
83 |
T119 |
Cormac Sharvin | F |
13 |
83 |