the english Tommy Fleetwood became the first leader of the tournament Abu Dhabifrom the DP World Tour by equaling the Yas Links course record of 62 strokes, one ahead of the Dane Thorbjorn Olesen and the American Johannes Veerman.
Fleetwoodnumber ten in the world ranking, got eight birdies and an eagle on hole two to seal a superb -10 without any mistakes to match Finn Sam Valimaki’s historic mark and start in a big way in his aim to confirm his status as one of the great favorites.
“It was a very enjoyable round to play. I made incredible putts, I felt like I read the greens well, I had good speed control and I hit a lot of perfect putts and started to hole them. “I’m happy to have a very good start,” commented Fleetwood, who debuted a new putter.
Olesenwho got two ‘eagles’ (holes 7 and 11), and Veermanwho fouled the 12th, is behind the Englishman, while the Italian is two shots behind Francesco Laporta and the English trio Paul Waring, Tyrrell Hatton and Laurie Canter.
The Scottish left hand Robert McIntyrethe danish Niklas Norgaard and the german Marcel Siem They finished with 65 (-7) and then a group with the Dane settled for 66 Rasmus Hojgaardspanish Adrian Otaegui and the Chilean Joaquín Niemann.
The great attraction of the tournament, the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroystarted with 67 hits, the same as the Spaniard Angel Hidalgowinner this year in Madrid after defeating Jon Rahm, and Alfredo García-Heredia in a tiebreaker.
Source: La Verdad
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