Made In HimmerLand R1

Made HimmerLand 2021 R1
May 27-30
HimmerLand, Farsø, Denmark
€1,500,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Richard Bland won his first European Tour title two weeks ago at the Belfry after 478 attempts and continues his fine form, putting himself back in contention this week in Denmark.

Made HimmerLand 2021 R1

Bland made an eagle on the par five eighth as well as four birdies and a single bogey to join defending champion Bernd Wiesberger, Korean Yikeun Chang, Spain’s Pablo Larrazábal and Finland’s Lauri Ruuska at the top of the leaderboard with 5-under 66s.

“I was just happy to get back out playing to be honest,” said Bland. “I hadn’t really done a lot last week, I played once with some friends and did a little bit of practice.

“I was coming in a little bit unprepared, but sometimes that’s not always a bad thing. I just tried to carry on where I left off and managed to do that.”

Made HimmerLand 2021 R1

Wiesberger moved into contention with birdies on the 4th, 5th and 6th holes before making an eagle on the par-5 8th. Bogeys at the 9th and 13th set him back but he closed with back-to-back birdies on the final holes.

“I like it around here,” he said. “It was a good day, a steady start but a lot of scoring in – like in the last five or six competitive rounds.

“It was nice to get a couple of early birdies – putts dropped and a bonus on the eighth. It turned to the tricky part of the golf course, I dropped a couple of shots there but stayed with it and was rewarded on the last two greens with some birdies. Quite a solid day and I’m very happy with the start.”

Made HimmerLand 2021 R1

Ruuska usually plays in the Nordic Golf League and is playing this week on a National Spot exemption, scored a hole-in-one at the par-three 16th.

“It’s ten years since I came to a European Tour event for the first time as a spectator and ten years since I last had a hole-in-one,” he said.

“A 50-degree wedge, 98 metres to the pin and it span back and went straight in the hole. It was a pretty awesome feeling. My first European Tour round, so it’s pretty nice.”

Made HimmerLand 2021 R1

Larrazábal was the only leader who completed a bogey-free round.

“I just turned 38 and these guys are 20-21, hitting 50 yards longer than me. In conditions like these, in tricky conditions, everything levels out.

“It’s all about grinding out there and hitting shots and knowing how to move the ball from right to left, left to right, low, high. It’s not a bomber’s course – this is a European Tour golf course.”

Made HimmerLand 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
T1	Richard Bland	-5	66
T1	Yi Keun Chang	-5	66
T1	Pablo Larrazabal	-5	66
T1	Lauri Ruuska *	-5	66
T1	Bernd Wiesberger *	-5	66
T6	Jonathan Caldwell	-4	67
T6	Laurie Canter *	-4	67
T6	Dimitrios Papadatos *	-4	67
T6	Matthias Schwab	-4	67
T10	John Axelsen *	-3	68
T10	Nino Bertasio	-3	68
T10	Wil Besseling *	-3	68
T10	Oliver Farr	-3	68
T10	Ross Fisher *	-3	68
T10	Masahiro Kawamura	-3	68
T10	David Law	-3	68
T10	Joost Luiten	-3	68
T10	Thorbjørn Olesen	-3	68
T10	Dale Whitnell	-3	68
T10	Ashun Wu	-3	68
T21	Pep Angles *	-2	69
T21	Lucas Bjerregaard *	-2	69
T21	Steven Brown	-2	69
T21	Sean Crocker	-2	69
T21	Josh Geary *	-2	69
T21	Julien Guerrier	-2	69
T21	Søren Kjeldsen *	-2	69
T21	Romain Langasque *	-2	69
T21	Francesco Laporta *	-2	69
T21	Alexander Levy	-2	69
T21	Robert MacIntyre *	-2	69
T21	Guido Migliozzi *	-2	69
T21	Niklas Norgaard Moller *	-2	69
T21	Chris Paisley	-2	69
T21	Renato Paratore	-2	69
T21	Haydn Porteous	-2	69
T21	Callum Shinkwin *	-2	69
T21	Martin Simonsen *	-2	69
T21	Matthew Southgate	-2	69
T40	Marcus Armitage *	-1	70
T40	Eduardo De la Riva	-1	70
T40	Jarryd Felton *	-1	70
T40	Peter Launer Baek *	-1	70
T40	Adrian Otaegui *	-1	70
T40	Jesper Sandborg *	-1	70
T40	Max Schmitt	-1	70
T40	Jason Scrivener	-1	70
T40	Shubhankar Sharma	-1	70
T40	Marcel Siem	-1	70
T40	Jordan Smith	-1	70
T40	Toby Tree	-1	70
T40	Chris Wood *	-1	70
T40	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	-1	70
T40	Lars van Meijel *	-1	70
T55	Alexander Björk	E	71
T55	Kristoffer Broberg *	E	71
T55	Jorge Campillo	E	71
T55	Ashley Chesters	E	71
T55	Thomas Detry	E	71
T55	Paul Dunne *	E	71
T55	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	E	71
T55	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	E	71
T55	Pedro Figueiredo *	E	71
T55	Ryan Fox	E	71
T55	Stephen Gallacher *	E	71
T55	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez *	E	71
T55	Sebastian Heisele *	E	71
T55	Marcus Helligkilde	E	71
T55	Calum Hill *	E	71
T55	David Horsey	E	71
T55	Nicolai Højgaard *	E	71
T55	Rikard Karlberg *	E	71
T55	Niall Kearney	E	71
T55	Kurt Kitayama	E	71
T55	Min Woo Lee	E	71
T55	Niklas Lemke *	E	71
T55	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	E	71
T55	Richard McEvoy	E	71
T55	Wade Ormsby	E	71
T55	Matthieu Pavon *	E	71
T55	Carlos Pigem *	E	71
T55	Garrick Porteous *	E	71
T55	Richie Ramsay	E	71
T55	Robin Roussel *	E	71
T55	Jeff Winther	E	71
T86	Adri Arnaus *	+1	72
T86	Alejandro Del Rey (a) *	+1	72
T86	Rhys Enoch *	+1	72
T86	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	+1	72
T86	Gregory Havret *	+1	72
T86	Benjamin Hebert *	+1	72
T86	Rasmus Højgaard *	+1	72
T86	Lasse Jensen *	+1	72
T86	Adrian Meronk *	+1	72
T86	Edoardo Molinari	+1	72
T86	Eddie Pepperell	+1	72
T86	Tapio Pulkkanen *	+1	72
T86	Aaron Rai *	+1	72
T86	Robert Rock *	+1	72
T86	Robin Sciot-Siegrist *	+1	72
T86	Lee Slattery	+1	72
T86	Connor Syme	+1	72
T103	Alejandro Cañizares *	+2	73
T103	Victor Dubuisson	+2	73
T103	Matt Ford	+2	73
T103	Tom Gandy *	+2	73
T103	Scott Hend *	+2	73
T103	Andrew Johnston	+2	73
T103	Matthew Jordan *	+2	73
T103	Mathiam Keyser *	+2	73
T103	Maximilian Kieffer	+2	73
T103	Joakim Lagergren *	+2	73
T103	Morten Orum Madsen *	+2	73
T103	James Morrison *	+2	73
T103	Wilco Nienaber *	+2	73
T103	Paul Peterson	+2	73
T103	Bernd Ritthammer *	+2	73
T103	Adrien Saddier *	+2	73
T103	Marcel Schneider	+2	73
T103	Jack Senior *	+2	73
T103	Brandon Stone *	+2	73
T103	Graeme Storm	+2	73
T103	Andy Sullivan *	+2	73
T103	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	+2	73
T125	Thomas Bjørn	+3	74
T125	David Drysdale *	+3	74
T125	Ben Evans	+3	74
T125	Lorenzo Gagli *	+3	74
T125	Gavin Kyle Green *	+3	74
T125	Justin Harding	+3	74
T125	David Howell	+3	74
T125	Scott Jamieson *	+3	74
T133	Maverick Antcliff *	+4	75
T133	Aaron Cockerill *	+4	75
T133	Sihwan Kim *	+4	75
T133	Mikko Korhonen *	+4	75
T133	Cormac Sharvin	+4	75
T133	Sebastian Soderberg	+4	75
T133	Julian Suri *	+4	75
T133	Johannes Veerman	+4	75
T133	Darius van Driel	+4	75
T142	Joachim B. Hansen *	+5	76
T142	Trevor Simsby	+5	76
T142	Joel Stalter	+5	76
T145	Dave Coupland	+6	77
T145	Adam Guedra	+6	77
T145	Peter Hanson	+6	77
T145	Haotong Li	+6	77
T145	Richard Mansell (a)	+6	77
T145	Jake McLeod	+6	77
T145	Benjamin Poke *	+6	77
T145	Lorenzo Scalise *	+6	77
T145	Clement Sordet	+6	77
154	Alvaro Quiros	+8	79
155	Janne Kaske *	+13	84
156	Andrea Pavan	+16	87
* Player started on the back nine