Swedens Ake Nilsson leads in Ireland.

After the first round of the Challenge of Ireland tournament played at the beautiful Moyvalley course in Ireland,Ake Nilsson from Sweden sits on his own at the top of the leaderboard on -5,67.There was great scoring in ideal weather conditions.
Johnny Caldwell,one of the favorites as he is a full card holder on the main tour is one of 8 players only one shot behind on -4,68.
The next best Irish is Colm Moriarty on -2,70.Cian McNamara was the only other one to break par on -1,71.
The full list of Irish players; Johnny Caldwell 68.Colm Moriarty 70. Cian McNamara 71.Chris Devlin,Tim Rice,Niall Turner 72.Robert Giles,David Higgins,Mark Murphy 73.John Kelly,Michael McDermott,Michael McGeady,A.Murray,Gareth Shaw,Simon Thornton 74.Stephen Grant,Mark Campbell,Noel Fox 75.Paul oHanlon,Justin Kehoe,Richard Kilpatrick 76,Tristan Mullally 77 and Peter o Keeffe 79.

With 4 amateurs invited there is going to be no repeat of Shane Lowry's feat in the Irish Open as Chris Selfridge,Michael Devlin 75 and Paul Reavey and David Reilly 77.