Sweden's Lotta Wahlin came in from the cold to grab the lead in Wednesday's first round of the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters at the Majlis Course at the Emirates Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set Club.
The 28-year-old shot a sparkling 6-under-par 66 to grab a one stroke lead over the stellar field playing in this, the season-ending finale of the European Ladies Tour.
She leads Becky Brewerton of Wales by Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set and is two clear of a 4-strong tie that included a second Swede, Linda Wessberg, Finland's Minea Blomqvist, Paraguayan Julieta Granada and South Afrcan Stacy Lee Bregman who all opened with 4-under 68s
Little known Jaclyn Sweeney, the highest-placed American after day one in Dubai, was a further shot back in a nine-strong log-jam that included South African Lee-Anne Pace, last year's LET money winner, and Frenchwomen Christel Boeljon, who was one of the members of the European Solheim Cup team that beat the USA earlier this year.
With her father Matts on the bag, Wahlin started at the 10th and picked up shots at the 12th and 13th, before dropping a stroke on the par-four 16th. She then reeled off birdies at the second, fourth, sixth, seventh and ninth holes to charge into an early clubhouse lead that was never really threaten by the afternoon starters .( Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set)
Wahlin said: "I'm so happy. I finally had a good round, finally able to make all the putts. I'm just so happy."
The year 2011 has been Wahlin's first full season back on the tour after a cancer scare that took her out of the tour for some won years.
In 2008 she won LET titles in Turkey and Wales and looked to have a rosy future, but at the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters two years ago, she received a telephone call from her doctor to inform her that a mole on her collar bone was actually a dangerous form of skin cancer.
She hardly played on the LET in 2010, sticking to the Swedish Tour in cooler climes after treatment, but returned to the LET Tour this year, making seven cuts from 14 tournaments played with a season-best tie for 13th at the Sanya Ladies Open.( Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set)
With so many new players having emerged in a short space of time, Wahlin said
she felt like a rookie on when she returned to the Tour with Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set this year.
"There were so many players, and while the Swedish tour is a very good tour, there is still a big difference to here, so it's been taking a while to get used to it again," she said, ahead of this week's championship.
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