The Indian Shubhankar Sharma This Thursday he signed a card of 65 strokes (7 under par) with five birdies and an eagle without a mistake, and he is the first leader of Irish Opena DP World Tour golf tournament that runs through Sunday at The K Club in Straffan.
Sharma, who has two titles on the European circuit (Joburg Open in 2017 and Maybank Championship in 2018), leads the table with one stroke less than the trio formed by Englishman Jordan Smith and Ross Fisher, the German namely Marcel Schneider, the Norwegian Kristian Kragh Johannessen and the veteran Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn, who in 2018 was the captain of the European Ryder Cup team.
Bjorn, 52 and winner of this tournament in 2006, used his experience with seven birdies and one bogey, despite clavicle and lumbar problems that have kept him out since June. He declared before the tournament that his goal was to start under 90 strokes and he did so with a 66.
The best of the Spanish is Angel Hidalgo, which started at 68 (-4). Pablo Larazábal (-3), Jorge Campillo, Santiago Tarrío and Nacho Elvira (-2) and Adrián Otaegui and Adri Arnaus (-1) also finished under par on the first day.
Source: La Verdad
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