June 5, 2017
Renato Paratore won the Nordea Masters on Sunday for his first European Tour title.
The 20-year-old Italian finished stroke ahead of Englishmen Chris Wood and last year's titleholder Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Paratore started the final day at the Barseback Gold and Country Club one stroke behind Wood. He finished at 11-under after having managed par over each of the final four holes to finish with a round of 70.
''I couldn't be happier right now. I really enjoyed this win,'' Paratore said. ''I was one behind the leader so I thought if I played well I could win. In these tough conditions I kept a good attitude until the end.''
George Coetzee of South Africa and Tjorbjorn Olesen of Denmark each finished two strokes behind.
June 4, 2017
Chris Wood leads the Nordea Masters by one shot after a third round 68 at the Barseback Golf and Country Club in Malmo on Saturday.
Wood began the third round four shots behind Jamie Donaldson but began brightly with a birdie on the first and another on the fifth.
A birdie on the par-five ninth took Wood to the turn in 34 and the 29-year-old followed it with four more before failing to get up and down from a bunker on the last.
"I've played nice all year without getting any results so in my mind it's a matter of time before I start getting some decent results," Wood told Sky Sports.
Wood came in only 49th in the defence of his PGA Championship title at Wentworth last week, but a fourth European Tour title on Sunday would secure the man from Bristol a place in the US Open.
The top 60 in the world rankings on June 12 will qualify for the year's second major at Erin Hills, with Wood currently 68th.
Italy's Renato Paratore and France's Benjamin Hebert are his closest pursuers in Sweden one shot back with Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen a shot further away in fourth following a double bogey six after a lost ball on the 18th.
Donaldson, who led by two shots after the first two rounds, fell off the pace with a 75 to fall three shots behind in a share of fifth with Max Orrin and Wang Jeunghun.
June 3, 2017
Jamie Donaldson will take a two-shot lead into the third round of the Nordea Masters as he looks to get his career firmly back on track with a fourth European Tour title.
Donaldson carded a second consecutive 69 at Barseback Golf and Country Club to reach eight under par, with Italy's Renato Paratore his nearest challenger on six under.
Englishmen Graeme Storm and Max Orrin and France's Benjamin Hebert are a shot further back, with defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick on three under after carding birdies on the last three holes in his 70.
Open champion and Barseback member Henrik Stenson carded a 72 to lie seven shots off the pace alongside fellow Swede and BMW PGA Championship winner Alex Noren, who returned a 70.
Donaldson reached a career high of 23rd in the world in 2014, the year in which he secured the winning point as Europe defeated the United States at Gleneagles to win a third successive Ryder Cup.
However, the 41-year-old has struggled for form and fitness since winning the Thailand Golf Championship in December 2015 and was lucky to escape serious injury to his left hand the following month after an accident with a chainsaw while gardening.
Donaldson had missed the cut in five of his nine events in 2017, but the world number 256 carded five birdies and one bogey - his first of the week - on Friday to head into the weekend in pole position.
"There were times when the ball wasn't where I wanted it to be, but I made some great escapes and the chipping and putting has been better the last couple of days," Donaldson said.
"I've been playing some nice golf and just not been able to put it all together; the first couple of days here I've been able to do that.
"I've just got to keep doing the same things, don't think too far ahead about winning tournaments as yet because it's only two rounds in."
Storm, who is seeking his second win of the season after beating world number two Rory McIlroy in a play-off for the South African Open in January, carded a 68 which featured seven birdies and two bogeys.
The 39-year-old from Hartlepool bogeyed the final hole at the Portugal Masters last season to seemingly miss out on retaining his card by just 100 euros, but was handed a lifeline when American Ryder Cup star Patrick Reed failed to play enough events to remain on the Race to Dubai.
That meant Storm moved up one place in the standings to claim the 111th and final card and he made the most of his good fortune by beating McIlroy in dramatic style earlier this season.
"After what happened in Portugal last year, getting the reprieve of getting my card back, it kind of made me think I need to work harder, but I need to relax as well," Storm told Sky Sports.
"The mental side of it is always a thing that's kind of dragged me down but I'm enjoying my golf, I've got a great caddie on the bag that talks to me a lot. We're good friends and he's pushing me as hard as he can."
Orrin, who secured a rookie season on the European Tour via the qualifying school, had shared the overnight lead with Paratore but the 23-year-old could only add a 73 to his opening 68.
June 2, 2017
Renato Paratore of Italy shared the lead with England's Max Orrin after the opening round of the Nordea Masters on Thursday.
Paratore shot a 5-under 68 on the Barseback Golf and Country Club course, while Orrin had to cope with windy conditions on the back nine to match the Italian's round.
''I managed to put a good score together in the end, so I'm very happy with that,'' Orrin said.
Welshmen Jamie Donaldson and Bradley Dredge were 4 under, one shot clear of a trio comprising Frenchman Benjamin Hebert, England's Eddie Pepperell and China's Li Haotong.
Local favorites Henrik Stenson and Alex Noren made poor starts, carding 73 and a 2-over 75 respectively.
Noren, a two-time winner of the event and who Sunday won the BMW PGA Championship, said Thursday's start had been ''quite difficult.''
| 1 | ITA | Renato Paratore | -11 | - | 68 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 281 |
| T2 | ENG | Chris Wood | -10 | - | 74 | 68 | 68 | 72 | 282 |
| T2 | ENG | Matthew Fitzpatrick | -10 | - | 73 | 70 | 71 | 68 | 282 |
| T4 | RSA | George Coetzee | -9 | - | 73 | 71 | 73 | 66 | 283 |
| T4 | DEN | Thorbjorn Olesen | -9 | - | 72 | 70 | 70 | 71 | 283 |
| 6 | FRA | Matthieu Pavon | -8 | - | 74 | 69 | 74 | 67 | 284 |
| 7 | WAL | Jamie Donaldson | -7 | - | 69 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 285 |
| T8 | ENG | Andy Sullivan | -6 | - | 73 | 71 | 73 | 69 | 286 |
| T8 | CAN | Austin Connelly | -6 | - | 72 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 286 |
| T8 | FRA | Benjamin Hebert | -6 | - | 70 | 71 | 70 | 75 | 286 |
| T8 | ENG | Eddie Pepperell | -6 | - | 70 | 74 | 71 | 71 | 286 |
| T8 | KOR | Jeung-Hun Wang | -6 | - | 72 | 71 | 70 | 73 | 286 |
| T8 | GER | Marcel Siem | -6 | - | 74 | 73 | 71 | 68 | 286 |
| T8 | BEL | Nicolas Colsaerts | -6 | - | 73 | 72 | 72 | 69 | 286 |
| T15 | FRA | Alexander Levy | -5 | - | 74 | 72 | 68 | 73 | 287 |
| T15 | SWE | Alexander Noren | -5 | - | 75 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 287 |
| T15 | WAL | Bradley Dredge | -5 | - | 69 | 74 | 74 | 70 | 287 |
| T15 | SWE | Christofer Blomstrand | -5 | - | 74 | 72 | 72 | 69 | 287 |
| T15 | ENG | Lee Westwood | -5 | - | 73 | 72 | 72 | 70 | 287 |
| T15 | ENG | Max Orrin | -5 | - | 68 | 73 | 72 | 74 | 287 |
| T21 | FRA | Gregory Bourdy | -4 | - | 73 | 74 | 68 | 73 | 288 |
| T21 | ENG | Jordan Smith | -4 | - | 75 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 288 |
| T21 | SWE | Niklas Lemke | -4 | - | 75 | 71 | 70 | 72 | 288 |
| T21 | NZL | Ryan Fox | -4 | - | 75 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 288 |
| T21 | SCO | Scott Jamieson | -4 | - | 73 | 71 | 74 | 70 | 288 |
| T26 | CHN | Haotong Li | -3 | - | 70 | 75 | 72 | 72 | 289 |
| T26 | SWE | Henrik Stenson | -3 | - | 73 | 72 | 75 | 69 | 289 |
| T26 | POR | Jose-Filipe Lima | -3 | - | 71 | 73 | 70 | 75 | 289 |
| T26 | FRA | Julien Guerrier | -3 | - | 73 | 73 | 71 | 72 | 289 |
| T30 | ESP | Alejandro Canizares | -2 | - | 76 | 71 | 68 | 75 | 290 |
| T30 | USA | David Lipsky | -2 | - | 75 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 290 |
| T30 | SWE | Kristoffer Broberg | -2 | - | 73 | 72 | 71 | 74 | 290 |
| T30 | ENG | Nathan Kimsey | -2 | - | 74 | 73 | 74 | 69 | 290 |
| T30 | AUS | Richard Green | -2 | - | 72 | 71 | 75 | 72 | 290 |
| T30 | IND | Shiv Chawrasia | -2 | - | 71 | 73 | 71 | 75 | 290 |
| T36 | ESP | Eduardo De La Riva | -1 | - | 76 | 71 | 71 | 73 | 291 |
| T36 | RSA | Jaco Van Zyl | -1 | - | 72 | 74 | 71 | 74 | 291 |
| T36 | SWE | Johan Edfors | -1 | - | 77 | 69 | 75 | 70 | 291 |
| T36 | ENG | Paul Waring | -1 | - | 75 | 71 | 75 | 70 | 291 |
| T36 | SCO | Richie Ramsay | -1 | - | 73 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 291 |
| T41 | ENG | Graeme Storm | Par | - | 73 | 68 | 75 | 76 | 292 |
| T41 | THA | Kiradech Aphibarnrat | Par | - | 73 | 72 | 76 | 71 | 292 |
| T41 | ENG | Laurie Canter | Par | - | 74 | 72 | 72 | 74 | 292 |
| T41 | SWE | Sebastian Soederberg | Par | - | 71 | 73 | 73 | 75 | 292 |
| T41 | IND | Shiv Kapur | Par | - | 73 | 73 | 71 | 75 | 292 |
| T41 | ENG | Tom Lewis | Par | - | 71 | 72 | 78 | 71 | 292 |
| T47 | FRA | Adrien Bernadet | 1 | - | 76 | 71 | 75 | 71 | 293 |
| T47 | SWE | Jens Fahrbring | 1 | - | 72 | 75 | 73 | 73 | 293 |
| T47 | RSA | Richard Sterne | 1 | - | 75 | 68 | 76 | 74 | 293 |
| T47 | SWE | Rikard Karlberg | 1 | - | 72 | 75 | 76 | 70 | 293 |
| T47 | AUS | Scott Hend | 1 | - | 71 | 72 | 76 | 74 | 293 |
| T47 | FRA | Sebastien Gros | 1 | - | 75 | 70 | 72 | 76 | 293 |
| T53 | SWE | Jeff Winther | 2 | - | 71 | 75 | 73 | 75 | 294 |
| T53 | ENG | Richard Bland | 2 | - | 77 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 294 |
| T53 | SCO | Stephen Gallacher | 2 | - | 74 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 294 |
| T53 | THA | Thongchai Jaidee | 2 | - | 72 | 73 | 77 | 72 | 294 |
| T57 | ENG | Daniel Brooks | 3 | - | 73 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 295 |
| T57 | CHI | Felipe Aguilar | 3 | - | 72 | 73 | 74 | 76 | 295 |
| T57 | ESP | Nacho Elvira | 3 | - | 73 | 73 | 75 | 74 | 295 |
| T57 | AUS | Sam Brazel | 3 | - | 76 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 295 |
| T57 | ENG | Simon Dyson | 3 | - | 73 | 73 | 78 | 71 | 295 |
| T62 | DNK | Lasse Jensen | 4 | - | 74 | 72 | 75 | 75 | 296 |
| T62 | DNK | Lucas Bjerregaard | 4 | - | 73 | 74 | 78 | 71 | 296 |
| T62 | SWE | Peter Hanson | 4 | - | 73 | 72 | 74 | 77 | 296 |
| T65 | AUS | Andrew Dodt | 5 | - | 77 | 68 | 73 | 79 | 297 |
| T65 | ENG | Matthew Southgate | 5 | - | 72 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 297 |
| T65 | RSA | Zander Lombard | 5 | - | 73 | 72 | 75 | 77 | 297 |
| CUT | SWE | Joakim Lagergren | 6 | - | 74 | 70 | 77 | 77 | 298 |
| CUT | SWE | Oliver Gillberg | 6 | - | 76 | 69 | 76 | 77 | 298 |
| CUT | SWE | Fredrik Nilehn | 7 | - | 76 | 70 | 76 | 77 | 299 |
| CUT | SWE | Pelle Edberg | 10 | - | 72 | 75 | 76 | 79 | 302 |
| CUT | ITA | Matteo Manassero | 12 | - | 75 | 72 | 80 | 77 | 304 |
| CUT | SWE | Alexander Bjoerk | 2 | - | 76 | 72 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | ENG | Ashley Chesters | 2 | - | 76 | 72 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | ENG | Chris Paisley | 2 | - | 73 | 75 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | ENG | John Parry | 2 | - | 73 | 75 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | ESP | Pablo Larrazabal | 2 | - | 75 | 73 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | USA | Paul Peterson | 2 | - | 73 | 75 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | FRA | Romain Wattel | 2 | - | 74 | 74 | - | - | 148 |
| CUT | ESP | Adrian Otaegui | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | FRA | Gary Stal | 3 | - | 76 | 73 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | RSA | Haydn Porteous | 3 | - | 76 | 73 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | SWE | Johan Carlsson | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | RSA | Justin Walters | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | ENG | Marcus Armitage | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | ITA | Nino Bertasio | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | ENG | Oliver Fisher | 3 | - | 74 | 75 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | IRL | Paul Dunne | 3 | - | 78 | 71 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | POR | Ricardo Melo Gouveia | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | ENG | Richard McEvoy | 3 | - | 75 | 74 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | FRA | Romain Langasque | 3 | - | 73 | 76 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | ENG | Sam Walker | 3 | - | 74 | 75 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | KOR | Soo-Min Lee | 3 | - | 72 | 77 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | AUS | Wade Ormsby | 3 | - | 76 | 73 | - | - | 149 |
| CUT | ENG | Anthony Wall | 4 | - | 74 | 76 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | CHI | Ashun Wu | 4 | - | 71 | 79 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | GER | Bernd Ritthammer | 4 | - | 76 | 74 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | ENG | Chris Hanson | 4 | - | 76 | 74 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | USA | Daniel Im | 4 | - | 76 | 74 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | SCO | Duncan Stewart | 4 | - | 82 | 68 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | NED | Joost Luiten | 4 | - | 77 | 73 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | ESP | Jorge Campillo | 4 | - | 74 | 76 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | FIN | Mikko Ilonen | 4 | - | 73 | 77 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | SWE | Niclas Fasth | 4 | - | 77 | 73 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | ARG | Rafa Echenique | 4 | - | 74 | 76 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | WAL | Stuart Manley | 4 | - | 77 | 73 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | USA | Zach Wright | 4 | - | 77 | 73 | - | - | 150 |
| CUT | DEN | Anders Hansen | 5 | - | 77 | 74 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | FRA | Damien Perrier | 5 | - | 79 | 72 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | SCO | David Drysdale | 5 | - | 77 | 74 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | RSA | Dylan Frittelli | 5 | - | 74 | 77 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | GER | Florian Fritsch | 5 | - | 81 | 70 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | SWE | Hannes Roenneblad | 5 | - | 76 | 75 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | FRA | Joel Stalter | 5 | - | 76 | 75 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | SWE | Oscar Lengden | 5 | - | 79 | 72 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | SWE | Pontus Widegren | 5 | - | 78 | 73 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | ARG | Ricardo Gonzalez | 5 | - | 77 | 74 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | RSA | Trevor Immelman | 5 | - | 75 | 76 | - | - | 151 |
| CUT | GER | Alexander Knappe | 6 | - | 78 | 74 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | RSA | Jaco Ahlers | 6 | - | 78 | 74 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | AUS | Jason Scrivener | 6 | - | 77 | 75 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | FRA | Julien Quesne | 6 | - | 73 | 79 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | SCO | Marc Warren | 6 | - | 74 | 78 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | USA | Mike Miller | 6 | - | 77 | 75 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | FRA | Raphael Jacquelin | 6 | - | 77 | 75 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | SCO | Scott Henry | 6 | - | 79 | 73 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | BEL | Thomas Detry | 6 | - | 76 | 76 | - | - | 152 |
| CUT | AUS | Brett Rumford | 7 | - | 76 | 77 | - | - | 153 |
| CUT | SWE | Niclas Johansson | 7 | - | 80 | 73 | - | - | 153 |
| CUT | SWE | Oscar Stark | 7 | - | 76 | 77 | - | - | 153 |
| CUT | ENG | Robert Dinwiddie | 7 | - | 79 | 74 | - | - | 153 |
| CUT | ENG | Robert Rock | 7 | - | 76 | 77 | - | - | 153 |
| CUT | ENG | Jamie Rutherford | 8 | - | 79 | 75 | - | - | 154 |
| CUT | SWE | Jens Dantorp | 8 | - | 78 | 76 | - | - | 154 |
| CUT | AUS | Marcus Fraser | 8 | - | 76 | 78 | - | - | 154 |
| CUT | SWE | Markus Larsson | 8 | - | 77 | 77 | - | - | 154 |
| CUT | SWE | Richard S. Johnson | 8 | - | 80 | 74 | - | - | 154 |
| CUT | GER | Sebastian Heisele | 8 | - | 76 | 78 | - | - | 154 |
| CUT | FRA | Gregory Havret | 9 | - | 77 | 78 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | ENG | Lee Slattery | 9 | - | 81 | 74 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | SWE | Magnus A. Carlsson | 9 | - | 80 | 75 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | ENG | Mark Foster | 9 | - | 78 | 77 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | GER | Maximilian Kieffer | 9 | - | 78 | 77 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | ENG | Richard Finch | 9 | - | 78 | 77 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | ENG | Steven Tiley | 9 | - | 80 | 75 | - | - | 155 |
| CUT | SWE | Anton Karlsson | 10 | - | 80 | 76 | - | - | 156 |
| CUT | ENG | Paul Maddy | 10 | - | 77 | 79 | - | - | 156 |
| CUT | ISL | Gudmundur Kristjansson | 11 | - | 79 | 78 | - | - | 157 |
| CUT | DEN | Thomas Bjorn | 11 | - | 75 | 82 | - | - | 157 |
| CUT | ENG | Gary King | 13 | - | 79 | 80 | - | - | 159 |
| CUT | ENG | Matthew Nixon | 13 | - | 77 | 82 | - | - | 159 |
| CUT | ESP | Pep Angles | 14 | - | 78 | 82 | - | - | 160 |
| CUT | SWE | Magnus Atlevi | 16 | - | 80 | 82 | - | - | 162 |
| DSQ | ENG | Callum Shinkwin | 7 | - | 80 | - | - | - | 80 |
| DSQ | SWE | Robert Karlsson | 9 | - | 82 | - | - | - | 82 |
| RET | ENG | David Howell | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | 4 |
