The Swede Simon Forsström, who at 34 is experiencing his debut season on the DP World Tour, is the first leader of the 2023 Soudal Open. The native of Bromma takes advantage of a -7 lap, with only birdies, and closes with these 64 hit a beautiful day in Belgium, not far from where he had won his only tournament on the Challenge Tour in 2016.
Soudal Open, results
Behind him a quartet formed by the other Swede Jens Dantorp, the German Marcel Siem and the English Andrew Wilson and James Morrison, all at -6 in the most disparate combinations; in particular, he is the only Morrison (who started from 10) to make a bogey free round.
Sixth position at -5 for the French Jeongweon Ko, Frederic Lacroix and Félix Mory, the Japanese Ryo Hisatsune, the Swedes Markus Kinhult and Alexander Bjork, the Danish Soren Kjeldsen and the Spanish Alejandro Del Rey.
Lacroix, Mory, Kjeldsen and Kinhult close the lap without running into a bogey. The first of the men of the house, Thomas Detry, is 14th at -4. The Belgian campaign of the three committed Italians begins not exactly in the best way.
Edoardo Molinari is the best, but is in 75th place equal with par; 99th at +1 Renato Paratore, who pays the double bogey at 14th, finally 135th at +3 Francesco Laporta. Belgium officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state governed by a constitutional monarchy.
It is a member state of the European Union located in Western Europe. It borders the Netherlands to the north, Germany and Luxembourg to the east, France to the south and south-west, and the North Sea to the north-west. Located on the border between German-speaking Europe and the Romance linguistic and cultural area, Belgium is divided into three regions.
To the north, Dutch-speaking Flanders comprises about 58% of the total population. In the middle is the Brussels city region, Brussels-Capital, which is officially bilingual despite being predominantly French-speaking, and in which 10% of the population resides.
To the south, Wallonia comprises 32% of the total national population, predominantly French-speaking with the exception of the small region, on the border with Germany, of the German-speaking Community of German-speaking Belgium, which includes the municipalities ceded by Germany to Belgium in 1919 and annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940-1945.
He was among the founders of the European Union and the capital Brussels is home to various EU institutions.
