BALLYMENA, Northern Eire — Daniel Brown of England shot 7-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the primary spherical of the ISPS Handa World Invitational on the European tour on Thursday.
Within the co-sanctioned LPGA Tour occasion happening concurrently, there was a four-way share of the lead between Gabrielle Cowley of England, Ellinor Sudow of Sweden, Kim Metraux of Switzerland and Karis Davidson of Australia, who all shot 4-under 69.
The parkland Galgorm Fortress Golf Membership and the hyperlinks at Castlerock Golf Membership are staging the match. Each males’s and ladies’s participant performs one spherical at every venue over the primary two days, earlier than all of the motion takes place at Galgorm as soon as the lower falls after 36 holes.
The perfect scores got here at Castlerock, the place Brown — an Englishman ranked No. 374 — performed and made six birdies in addition to an eagle on the par-5 fifteenth. Alex Fitzpatrick and Callan Barrow of England, Manu Gandas of India and Gregorio De Leo of Italy had been tied on 5 underneath, with solely De Leo of them taking part in Galgorm.
The joint leaders on the LPGA Tour occasion all performed Castlerock, too. Of the highest 12, solely American golfer Marissa Steen (70) performed Galgorm.
Sweden’s Maja Stark received the ladies’s title final 12 months however is just not within the subject this week.
