Italian golf has reached previously unknown heights since the arrival in the big time over the last few years of the Molinari brothers Francesco and Edoardo and the clear possibility that in the 20 year-old Matteo Manassero, last week’s highly impressive winner of the BMW PGA Championship, they possess the next Tiger Woods.

Former Open champion John Daly was on Friday looking for more help from the “golfing gods” to get back into contention for the Scandinavian Masters.

It was a case of Strange by name, strange by nature in the first round of the Scandinavian Masters in Stockholm.