Four days after Jesper Parnevik and Jarmo Sandelin won on both sides of the Atlantic, Swedish golfers were at it again yesterday.

Mats Lanner scored a dazzling 10-under-par 62 to take the first-round lead in the Fiat and Fila Italian Open in Turin, while compatriot Per Nyman lies joint second with England's Gary Evans following a 65.

Lanner's round, which equalled the lowest on the European Tour this season, promised to be even better.

He eagled the first hole, had a seven-under 29 for the first nine and then had a hat-trick of birdies from the 12th - the last of them a 25-foot putt from off the green.

At 10 under with a par five to come the chance to become the first man ever to break 60 on the circuit. That hope evaporated when the 38-year-old Swede, who amazingly has missed six of his last seven halfway cuts, made "only" a five on the 557-yard 15th and bogeyed the short 16th after missing the green.

But he sank a 10-foot putt for his ninth birdie at the 17th. He has had two other 62s in a career going back 18 years but said: "I've never shot 10 under before and after the run I've had lately that was as big a surprise to me as to everybody else. I holed basically every putt that was in sight."

Nyman's day began badly with a bogey. It was his only one, however, and four birdies in his last five holes gave last year's Challenge Tour runner-up his best-ever round on the main circuit. Evans came home in 30 to catch Nyman.

Seve Ballesteros, who made his first cut of the season last week, is on course to do so again following a 70.

Padraig Harrington's 68 made him the best-placed Irish player.