Skold and Romero set the pace in Canaries

MARK ROE and Santiago Luna reached 500 European tour events but it was Swede Johan Skold and Argentina’s Andres Romero who set the first day pace at the Abama Canaries Open in Tenerife yesterday.

Both returned five under par 66s, while Roe and Luna paired together and each presented with a cake at the end of their rounds shot 69 and 70 respectively.

It is an important week as well as a landmark one for the two 42-year-olds, who made their tour debuts as amateurs over 20 years ago.