Pedro Linhart, Nick Dougherty and Peter Hanson share the lead on four under par after shooting fine first round scores of 66 at the SAS Masters.
Hanson and Dougherty had already set the benchmark earlier in the day, but were later joined by Spain’s Linhart who balanced three bogies with seven birdies.
Initially it looked as if the 45 year old would struggle when he dropped a shot at the 11th - he started on the tenth - but he quickly recovered with birdies at the 12th, 14th and first holes.
Bogeys followed at the second and seventh, but he diluted their impact with birdies at the third, fifth, eighth and ninth for a front nine score of 31.
Hanson, starting on the back nine, also gave little indication of what was to come when he sandwiched birdies at the 15th and 16th with bogeys at the tenth and 18th, but then his fortunes changed.
He followed a birdie at the first with another couple at the fourth and fifth. A run of three straight pars then followed for the Swede before he wrapped up an inward nine 30 with a birdie at his last hole.
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