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Perez promotes the French dream with an opening top spot at Dubai Ports Golf

• Frenchman Perez during the opening day’s competitions yesterday at Al-Ard Stadium.

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The 37th world ranked French, Victor Perez, with five strikes below average, took the lead on the first day in the "DP World" golf championship, reinforcing his dream to give France its first title in the competition, which began yesterday at the "Land" stadium in Jumeirah Properties And the residence until the day after tomorrow, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council, with a total of eight million dollars in prizes, and is the final round of the season «Race to Dubai».

Perez (28 years) needed 67 strikes to finish the course of the 18-hole "Earth" stadium, which was enough to win his five strikes below the average, and to top the lead by a stroke below average over Robert MacIntyre, England's Matt Fitzpatrick, champion of the 2016 edition, and South Africa Eric Vanroy , Who shared the second place, while the third place went equally, with three strikes below par, to the "Race to Dubai" champion in 2010, the German Martin Kaimer, the Finnish Sami Valimaki, and the British Hamton Terrell.

Perez almost finished the opening day with six strikes below the average, which he achieved when drilling (2, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 17), had he not stumbled into the fourth hole, in which he had fallen through the "Buggy" mistake, as he needed an additional blow above average to get the ball into the hole.

The Frenchman commented on ending the first day in the lead by saying in a press statement: “I am happy with the performance you have achieved on the difficult (Land) course, and I look forward over the next three days to perform better with the ambition of gifting French golf its first historical title in the (DP World) Championship) Besides, the world championship title and the generous prize fund can support my ambitions to win the title of champion of the season (race to Dubai), to be the first French player to succeed in winning this title and collecting this double.

On the other hand, the overall leader in the "Race to Dubai", American Patrick Reed, settled for ending the opening day with two strikes below the average, and finished 17th on the ranking.

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