Rasmus Hojgaard opened his identify defence with a five-under 65 to stick inside of 3 of the lead, whilst Canada’s Aaron Cockerill made a hole-in-one on the par-three 3rd; Watch the second one spherical continue to exist Friday from 12.30pm on Sky Sports activities Golfing

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Highlights from day one of the crucial Omega Eu Masters the place Thriston Lawrence and Alejandro Canizares lead.

Alejandro Canizares and Thriston Lawrence cling a proportion of the lead after the hole spherical of the Omega Eu Masters, the place Matt Wallace additionally began strongly.

Canizares blended 9 birdies and one bogey on his approach to an eight-under 62 at Crans-sur-Sierre, a ranking matched by means of Lawrence after a blemish-free get started, with the pair conserving a two-shot cushion over the chasing pack.

The Spaniard cancelled out a birdie on the 3rd by means of bogeying the par-four subsequent, simplest to make his price up the leaderboard with 5 birdies in a six-hole stretch from the 5th.

Alejandro Canizares holds a proportion of the lead in Switzerland

Canizares added 3 consecutive birdies from the twelfth to in brief threaten a imaginable ’59 spherical’ at the par-70 structure, simplest to complete with 4 pars and set the clubhouse goal at 8 below.

“It used to be an ideal spherical,” Canizares stated. “My objective nowadays used to be to focal point simplest at the objectives, now not to concentrate on my swing because it hasn’t labored in recent times! It felt virtually like subconscious, which is the objective for a golfer to hit subconscious excellent pictures and that’s the reason what I am running on, seeking to disregard somewhat bit about method and let it move.”

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Canadian golfer Aaron Cockerill hit a terrific gap in a single in day one of the crucial Omega Eu Masters.

Lawrence had began at the again 9 and collected six birdies ahead of holing out from 30 yards for an eagle on his remaining gap, the par-five 9th.

“Bogey loose, in order that’s all the time a tick within the field,” Lawrence stated. “Began off properly, numerous fairways, numerous vegetables, gave myself numerous 15 footers and controlled to make a couple of. A pleasant little pitch in at the 9th to complete off, so more than happy about that.”

Wallace and Scotland’s Scott Jamieson had been a part of a four-strong staff two pictures off the lead on six below, with protecting champion Rasmus Hojgaard some other stroke again.

Starting at the again 9, Wallace replied to a bogey on the twelfth by means of holing a 30-footer from the perimeter on the 14th and rolling in a 20-foot birdie on the subsequent in spite of having to put up at the par-five.

Wallace did not rise up and down from the sand to save lots of par on the sixteenth however adopted a six-foot birdie on the 18th with 3 extra in a four-hole stretch from the second one, ahead of finishing a run of pars by means of creating a 15-foot birdie on his ultimate gap of the day.

Hojgaard is bidding to sign up for main champions Seve Ballesteros and Matt Fitzpatrick in claiming back-to-back titles within the Swiss Alps, whilst the 21-year-old would additionally like to emulate fellow Dane Thomas Bjorn in lifting the trophy for a 2d time.

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