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Marcus Helligkilde produced a big finish at Wentworth Club to open up a two-shot lead after day one of the BMW PGA Championship.
Playing in the same group as Canadian Aaron Cockerill, the Dane birdied his final three holes to sign for a 64 and move to eight under ahead of Scot Richie Ramsay and England's Matt Fitzpatrick in the fourth Rolex Series event of the season.
All 12 members of Europe's Ryder Cup team are teeing it up at DP World Tour HQ this week and Fitzpatrick was the best of them after 18 holes, leading a strong home charge that saw Matthew Baldwin and James Morrison three shots off the lead.
Spanish pair Jorge Campillo and Pablo Larrazábal, Belgian Thomas Detry, Japan's Rikuya Hoshino, Pole Adrian Meronk and Scot Connor Syme were also five under.
But it was Helligkilde who stole the show in Surrey, carding ten birdies enroute to matching his lowest DP World Tour round to par.
"I did it by hitting it terrible on the range," he said. "I asked my coach what should I do, and he's like, 'yeah, you're probably going to play great'. So that was what happened.
"Everything was in play from the tee. I was hitting decent shots into the greens and I was holing a lot of putts.
edit*** Cockerill made 6 birdies and an eagle mixed in with 4 bogeys for 68 to T12 at -4 in a low scoring pairing.
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