Manu Gandas, the lone Indian this week on the Made in HimmerLand golf match, picked up two late birdies to handle a two-over 72 on the par-70 Himmerland course right here.

Playing his rookie season on the DP World Tour, Gandas was 4 over after 13 holes however did properly to birdie the sixteenth and seventeenth holes to lie tied 52nd after the opening day.

Overall he had three birdies, three bogeys and one double bogey, which got here on the second gap. Gandas was tied 52nd.

Scotsman Robert MacIntyre turned on the warmth on the again 9 with 5 birdies between the eleventh and the seventeenth to open a two-stroke lead after the opening spherical which he performed within the afternoon, when the solar had come out after a windy morning.

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Taking benefit of the marginally calmer circumstances, he posted a gap six beneath par spherical of 64.

Starting from the primary 9, Gandas double bogeyed the second gap however birdied the seventh to show in one-over. He then dropped pictures on tenth, eleventh and thirteenth and was four-over with 5 holes to go.

He fought again properly to choose up birdies on the sixteenth and the seventeenth to shut with a much less painful 72.

The two-time DP World Tour winner, MacIntyre combined three birdies with a single bogey on the entrance 9, earlier than giving one other shot again on the par three tenth. MacIntyre’s back-nine birdie blitz got here on 11-Twelfth after which 14th-Fifteenth and the seventeenth.

England’s Ross Fisher was second with 66, whereas three gamers Germany’s Nick Bachem, Daan Huizing of the Netherlands, and USA’s Johannes Veerman carded 3-under 67 every.