Czech Masters: A preview, tee-times and tips for this week's European Tour event

The Albatross Golf Resort in Prague is the venue for this week's European Tour event - the D+D Real Czech Masters.

As for seeing an albatross, that looks rather remote given that two of the four par fives on the course measure in at over 600 yards.

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The fairways on the Keith Preston-designed par 72 have been substantially narrowed for the event and the European Tour website suggests the course will "play long".

Water is in play on seven holes - 4, 7, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 18.

The front of the betting market features a number of Ryder Cup hopefuls.

Jamie Donaldson is the 11/1 favourite ahead of 12/1 Bernd Wiesberger and Joost Luiten, while Danny Willett and Stephen Gallacher come next at 18/1 and 20/1.

There aren't any Czech players who will threaten the leaderboard but Wiesberger will certainly have some followers.

He told europeantour.com: “I will have some support with me this week. I drove here from where I live and it took me about five hours door to door. I've got some friends from the Lyoness Open coming over, my brother will be coming and my girlfriend too.

“It’s not too far from the north western part of Austria so maybe some people will make their way up here."

As usual, Sky Sports have live coverage of all four days.

Course form

This is the European Tour's first trip to this venue although there could be some clues from the recent past as it hosted the LET Prague Masters in 2011 and 2012. Melissa Reid took the title by a shot in 2012 while Jade Schaeffer carded a 64 on the way to victory in 2011. Looking at the top 10 in both years suggests the course may suit those who hit plenty of greens in regulation but aren't great putters.

R1 tee-times

Starting at hole 1 

0715 Dodge Kemmer (USA), Sam Walker, Adam Rajmont (Cze)
0725 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Craig Lee, Javier Colomo (Spa)
0735 Victor Riu (Fra), Paul Waring, Lucas Bjerregaard (Den)
0745 Michael Jonzon (Swe), Alexandre Kaleka (Fra), Vitek Novak (Cze)
0755 Kenneth Ferrie, Gary Lockerbie, Thomas Norret (Den)
0805 David Drysdale, Mark Foster, John Parry
0815 Duncan Stewart, Lloyd Kennedy, Ruaidhri McGee
0825 Graeme Storm, Christopher Doak, Ricardo Santos (Por)
0835 Andreas Harto (Den), Jamie McLeary, Yevgeni Kafelnikov (Rus)
0845 Marek Novy (Cze), Chris Hanson, James Kingston (Rsa)
0855 Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Keith Horne (Rsa), Brandon Stone (Rsa)
0905 Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Zane Scotland, Tain Lee (USA)
0915 David Lipsky (USA), Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe), Merrick Bremner (Rsa)
1215 Rikard Karlberg (Swe), Berry Henson (USA), Mikko Korhonen (Fin)
1225 Eddie Pepperell, Tom Lewis, Andy Sullivan
1235 Bradley Dredge, Hennie Otto (Rsa), Soren Kjeldsen (Den)
1245 Daniel Brooks, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Tommy Fleetwood
1255 David Horsey, Stephen Gallacher, Jamie Donaldson
1305 Felipe Aguilar (Chi), Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Peter Uihlein (USA)
1315 Oliver Fisher, Stanislav Matus (Cze), Gregory Bourdy (Fra)
1325 Damien McGrane, Gareth Maybin, Emiliano Grillo (Arg)
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