DP World Tour : KLM Open ..Leaderboard Weather
Ricardo Gouveia produced what he described as the round of his life to lead by one shot after day one of the 2025 KLM Open.
Gouveia, starting from the tenth hole, played his first nine at The International in Amsterdam in a blistering -7 with birdies at every hole save for the 13th and 16th.
He made another at the third but then saw his momentum checked by a 90-minute storm delay, with a closing bogey for a 64 to leave him -7
Connor Syme birdied the last to sit just one behind on 65 -6, ahead of a large group at 66 -5 including fellow Scot Richie Ramsay, France's Pierre Pineau, Englishman Daniel Brown, American John Catlin, Germany's Max Kieffer and Swede Joakim Lagergren.
Gouveia said: "It was one of those rounds, started off really well and just kept the momentum going. I haven't holed this amount of putts in a long time.
"I hit it very close on the front nine. On the back nine I kept playing well but with the stop and the restart, it's always tricky when you're playing well.
"I'm really pleased with the round, I'd say it's the best round of my life so far.
"I haven't been this consistent in a while so it was nice to have a round like this. Extremely happy."
"In Belgium I felt like the game was good going into the week and then just made a few mistakes," he said. "My coach was there on the sideline and he noticed something, we worked on quite a bit on the weekend there to prepare for Austria.
"Long game was much better in Austria but the putting wasn't good, but I knew a good round like this was very close
Pineau made six birdies, including back to back at the 15th and 16th and again at the second and third, and was bogey-free until his final hole, the ninth.
Even there, he did exceptionally well to limit the damage to just a bogey with a magnificent lofted escape from the front bunker.
He said: "Very happy with that. I did everything well, my irons were pretty good, and just no mistakes.
"I changed coach three weeks ago which is starting to work pretty well, but I've been playing pretty well the last few weeks and I feel it's coming."
Ramsay made five birdies and a hole-out eagle from the third to the eighth in his 66 and Brown holed from 40 feet for an eagle of his own at the eighth.
Catlin was bogey-free, Kieffer had six birdies and just one dropped shot and Lagergren produced an extraordinary second shot into the 18th green before two-putting from 70 feet for a sixth birdie of the day.
Angel Hidalgo and David Ravetto completed the top ten at -4.
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