Italian and a Finn lead Dutch Open..

 DP World Tour : KLM Open Leaderboard

Mikko Korhonen added a birdie-birdie finish to a hole-in-one to join Matteo Manassero at the top of the leaderboard after day one of the KLM Open.

Manassero had finished a bogey-free 64 with two birdies of his own to set the target at -7 at The International just days after teeing it up in the U.S. Open as his remarkable renaissance continues.

But Korhonen - making just his third start of the season - joined him at the summit, one shot clear of Japan's Rikuya Hoshino 65 -6

American Sean Crocker, Italian Edoardo Molinari, England's James Morrison and Swede Henrik Norlander were then two shots off the lead with 66 -5

Italian Manassero won his fifth DP World Tour title earlier this season at the Jonsson Workwear Open, nearly 14 years after becoming the youngest winner in DP World Tour history.

Last week he was back on the biggest stage at the U.S. Open and while he missed the cut at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, he bounced back in fine style in the Netherlands.

"Very satisfying," he said. "It is a tough course so you need to earn a round like this around here and the conditions obviously helped us, the course is firming up so it is playing a little shorter and the wind never really pumped. So, it was a good day to play some good golf and have a good round but never easy.

“On the weekend I was tired. I didn’t play but it is kind of stressful, and stressful in a good way, because you put all your energy into preparing for the U.S. Open and it beats you up and then you have a drop in adrenalin, so I was a little bit tired, but I am really happy to be playing. The U.S. Open was a really tough experience, but I want to take it for what it is and reset."

Korhonen is a two-time DP World Tour winner, but his appearance at last month's Soudal Open was his first in over 12 months.

"Speechless," he said. "The hole-in-one was a nice little extra there but it was a solid round, everything was pretty solid. Putted well, hit it well off the tee, no complaints.

"I was pretty good off the tee today. I didn’t hit it into the long stuff which was key today."

Hoshino - playing just his second event since March after suffering a collapsed lung - bogeyed the second and ninth but between made four birdies, the highlight being a tee-shot to tap-in range at the fourth.

He then made four in a row from the 11th with an excellent putting display and added another birdie on the 16th before three-putting the next.

Morrison birdied four of his last five in a bogey-free round, while Molinari paired a single bogey with six birdies.

Norlander also recorded a single bogey in his 66, with playing partner Crocker recording an eagle, five birdies and two bogeys.

English duo Ross Fisher and Callum Shinkwin, Italian Filippo Celli and Swede Espen Kofstad were all at -4

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Bryan Angus (edit)