Omega European Masters R1

European Masters 2021 R1
August 26-29
Crans-sur-Sierre GC, Crans Montana, Switzerland
€2,000,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

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Englishman James Morrison carved out a three shot lead at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club, shooting a course record 60 in the opening round of the Omega European Masters.

European Masters 2021 R1

He shot nine birdies and an eagle at the par-5 14th and his round was marred by a single bogey at the 18th.

“I was in the first group out at 7.40 and the greens were just absolutely perfect this morning, with no wind.

European Masters 2021 R1

“I holed a couple of good putts, chipped in at 11, and it just snowballed from there. Bogeyed the 18th, my ninth, to be four under par through nine, but it was just a good, solid start. Hit the right shots when I had to and made a few putts.

“It was funny, after I bogeyed the 18th I went to the first – which is probably the hardest hole on the course – and made birdie there.

“My caddie said ‘Come on, I think we can shoot 59 here’. I had eight holes to go and you use that as more of a mental push to keep going forward, use it more of a mental tool.

European Masters 2021 R1

“I had a really good look on the last and thought ‘just try to make this’. The minute your focus goes like that, you chip it stiff, make birdie and shoot ten under par.

“I was trying to hole that shot on the last, but next time maybe.

“It’s a four round event, my ten under isn’t going to win today, you’ll need to be minus 20 or plus. You’ve just got to keep your foot down and keep going and use that as a gee-up.

European Masters 2021 R1

Countryman Marcus Armitage and Frenchman Robin Sciot-Siegrist are tied in second place at 7-under.

Sciot-Siegrist stumbled with a bogey at the first hole but immediately recovered with a birdie then fired seven more, four of them consecutively from the 5th.

Armitage joined him in second place in the afternoon after producing a bogey-free round.

They are followed in fourth place by Englishman Andy Sullivan and Sounth African Dean Burmester at 6-under.

European Masters 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	James Morrison	-10	60
T2	Marcus Armitage	-7	63
T2	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	-7	63
T4	Dean Burmester	-6	64
T4	Andy Sullivan	-6	64
T6	Pietro Bovari (a)	-5	65
T6	Nicolas Colsaerts	-5	65
T6	Thomas Detry	-5	65
T6	Julien Guerrier	-5	65
T6	Renato Paratore	-5	65
T6	Paul Peterson	-5	65
T12	Darren Fichardt	-4	66
T12	Justin Harding	-4	66
T12	Min Woo Lee	-4	66
T12	Jake McLeod	-4	66
T12	Marcel Siem	-4	66
T12	Sebastian Soderberg	-4	66
T12	Daniel van Tonder	-4	66
T19	Alexander Björk	-3	67
T19	Ashley Chesters	-3	67
T19	Jamie Donaldson	-3	67
T19	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	-3	67
T19	Benjamin Hebert	-3	67
T19	Scott Jamieson	-3	67
T19	Matthew Jordan	-3	67
T19	Rikard Karlberg	-3	67
T19	Masahiro Kawamura	-3	67
T19	Guido Migliozzi	-3	67
T19	Kyong-Jun Moon	-3	67
T19	Rory Sabbatini	-3	67
T19	Bernd Wiesberger	-3	67
T19	Darius van Driel	-3	67
T33	Jorge Campillo	-2	68
T33	John Catlin	-2	68
T33	Victor Dubuisson	-2	68
T33	Calum Hill	-2	68
T33	David Horsey	-2	68
T33	Rasmus Højgaard	-2	68
T33	Jazz Janewattananond	-2	68
T33	Andrew Johnston	-2	68
T33	Martin Kaymer	-2	68
T33	Ronan Kleu	-2	68
T33	Rowan Lester	-2	68
T33	Ross McGowan	-2	68
T33	Adrian Otaegui	-2	68
T33	Andrea Pavan	-2	68
T33	Victor Perez	-2	68
T33	Robin Roussel	-2	68
T33	Adrien Saddier	-2	68
T33	Shubhankar Sharma	-2	68
T33	Johannes Veerman	-2	68
T33	Fabrizio Zanotti	-2	68
T53	Maverick Antcliff	-1	69
T53	Nino Bertasio	-1	69
T53	Lucas Bjerregaard	-1	69
T53	Richard Bland	-1	69
T53	Yi Keun Chang	-1	69
T53	Harry Ellis	-1	69
T53	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-1	69
T53	Daniel Gavins	-1	69
T53	Cédric Gugler	-1	69
T53	Joachim B. Hansen	-1	69
T53	Sebastian Heisele	-1	69
T53	Miguel Angel Jiménez	-1	69
T53	Pablo Larrazabal	-1	69
T53	Alexander Levy	-1	69
T53	Bryden Macpherson	-1	69
T53	Wade Ormsby	-1	69
T53	Richie Ramsay	-1	69
T53	Antoine Rozner	-1	69
T53	Ricardo Santos	-1	69
T53	Clement Sordet	-1	69
T53	Justin Walters	-1	69
T74	Jonathan Caldwell	E	70
T74	Alejandro Cañizares	E	70
T74	George Coetzee	E	70
T74	David Drysdale	E	70
T74	Scott Hend	E	70
T74	David Howell	E	70
T74	Marcus Kinhult	E	70
T74	Romain Langasque	E	70
T74	Hugo León	E	70
T74	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	E	70
T74	Richard McEvoy	E	70
T74	Adrian Meronk	E	70
T74	Matthieu Pavon	E	70
T74	Thomas Pieters	E	70
T74	Carlos Pigem	E	70
T74	Garrick Porteous	E	70
T74	Lee Slattery	E	70
T74	Sami Valimaki	E	70
T74	Danny Willett	E	70
T74	Oliver Wilson	E	70
T74	Jeff Winther	E	70
T74	Lars van Meijel	E	70
T96	Wil Besseling	+1	71
T96	SSP Chawrasia	+1	71
T96	Aaron Cockerill	+1	71
T96	Sean Crocker	+1	71
T96	Bradley Dredge	+1	71
T96	Gregory Havret	+1	71
T96	Mikko Korhonen	+1	71
T96	Jacques Kruyswijk	+1	71
T96	Niklas Lemke	+1	71
T96	Thorbjørn Olesen	+1	71
T96	Eddie Pepperell	+1	71
T96	Kalle Samooja	+1	71
T96	Joel Stalter	+1	71
T96	Henrik Stenson	+1	71
T96	Marc Warren	+1	71
T111	Steven Brown	+2	72
T111	Oliver Farr	+2	72
T111	Ross Fisher	+2	72
T111	Oliver Fisher	+2	72
T111	Stephen Gallacher	+2	72
T111	Raphael Jacquelin	+2	72
T111	Søren Kjeldsen	+2	72
T111	Francesco Laporta	+2	72
T111	David Law	+2	72
T111	Francesco Molinari	+2	72
T111	Wilco Nienaber	+2	72
T111	Graeme Storm	+2	72
T111	Julian Suri	+2	72
T124	Adri Arnaus	+3	73
T124	Matthew Baldwin	+3	73
T124	Raphael De sousa	+3	73
T124	Bryce Easton	+3	73
T124	Lorenzo Gagli	+3	73
T124	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	+3	73
T124	Sihwan Kim	+3	73
T124	Edoardo Molinari	+3	73
T124	Tapio Pulkkanen	+3	73
T124	Robert Rock	+3	73
T124	Cormac Sharvin	+3	73
T124	Matthew Southgate	+3	73
T124	Brandon Stone	+3	73
T124	Dale Whitnell	+3	73
T124	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	+3	73
T139	Mathias Eggenberger (a)	+4	74
T139	Pedro Figueiredo	+4	74
T139	Gavin Kyle Green	+4	74
T139	Sam Horsfield	+4	74
T139	Jose-Filipe Lima	+4	74
T139	Zander Lombard	+4	74
T139	Max Schliesing	+4	74
T139	Jack Senior	+4	74
T139	Connor Syme	+4	74
T148	Grant Forrest	+5	75
T148	Joakim Lagergren	+5	75
T150	Chris Paisley	+6	76
T150	Damien Perrier	+6	76
T152	Tae Hee Lee	+7	77
T152	Haydn Porteous	+7	77
T154	Benjamin Poke	+8	78
T154	Toby Tree	+8	78
156	Mauro Gilardi	+13	83