Ras Al Khaimah Championship: Ryo Hisatsune leads as Edoardo Molinari, Rasmus Hojgaard impress | Golf News

Ryo Hisatsune started the 7 days with six successive birdies as he posted a beautiful 64 to direct by two photographs right after the to start with round of the Ras Al Khaimah Championship watch are living on Friday from 8.30am on Sky Sports Golfing

Ryo Hisatsune holds a two-shot lead at the Ras Al Khaimah Championship

Ryo Hisatune generated an amazing birdie operate to soar into the early direct at the DP Globe Tour’s Ras al Khaimah Championship, in which Edoardo Molinari and Rasmus Hojgaard also amazed.

The Japanese performed birdied just about every of his opening six holes on his way to a amazing opening-spherical 64 at Al Hamra GC, providing him a two-shot cushion above Molinari, Hojgaard and England’s Matthew Baldwin.

Hisatsune followed his 6-birdie start off by using benefit of the par-five eighth, looking at him attain the switch in 29, with a birdie at the par-five 10th boosting hopes of a probable sub-60 round.

The globe No 210 – producing his initially begin of the calendar year – finished a run of pars by rolling in a 15-foot birdie at the par-a few 15th, briefly placing him a few in advance, with Hisatsune’s only dropped shot coming when he found trees off the tee at the par-five 18th on his way to a closing bogey.

“It was so unreal,” Hisatsune stated. “I was just hitting photographs, holing putts. Each and every time I created it. It was so amazing. It truly is the 1st time I have experienced six birdies in a row. It is my to start with event of the (calendar) year and I was a little anxious at the commence, but it was an effortless start off. So blessed.

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“(After that start) I assumed ‘keep going’. On the back 9 there are some difficult holes. I experienced to continue to keep building photographs, generating pars. On the very last gap I was so nervous, but it was just a bogey so Ok for me.”

Baldwin built four consecutive birdies on his entrance nine and arrived to shut to a gap-out albatross on his ultimate hole, with a shut-range eagle seeing him indicator for a first-round 66, while Hojgaard posted 6 birdies in a bogey-totally free commence and Molinari started off strongly to total the group tied-next.

Ryan Fox – the optimum-ranked player in the area – is in the group of six players on 5 less than that includes England’s Callum Shinkwin, who followed his fourth-put finish in Dubai very last 7 days by carding a bogey-cost-free 67, though Ryder Cup hopeful Adrian Meronk – who can move within the world’s top 50 this 7 days – is in four of the early direct.

Defending winner Nicolai Hojgaard developed an eagle-birdie end to salvage a a person-below 71, owning made 3 bogeys in a six-hole stretch earlier in his round, with Adrian Otaegui in the group amount-par and Victor Perez opening with a one particular-about 73.

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