Strange goings on in Wales
Open at Celtic Manor

The Wales Open will resume today with little-known Australian Scott Strange eyeing the main prize and with its star attraction Padraig Harrington nowhere to be seen.
Open champion Harrington crashed out of Celtic Manor when a second round 74 sent him to his first missed cut on European soil since October 2006 and Strange - a 31-year-old from Perth ranked 164th in the world - is the man the rest were trying to catch after marvellous rounds of 63 and 66 on the newly unwrapped lay-out.
At 13 under par he leads the race for the £300,000 winner's cheque by four from English pair Benn Barham and Robert Dinwiddie, Spain's Alvaro Velasco and Indian Jeev Milkha Singh.
Former winner Robert Karlsson, third in each of the last three tournaments and with a point to prove after three-putting from three feet on the final green at Wentworth on Sunday when still in with a chance to win, is in the group one further back.
SCOREBOARD
QUALIFIERS
Par 142 (2 x 71)
129 Scott Strange (Aus) 63 66
133 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 65 68, Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 65 68, Benn Barham 69 64, Robert Dinwiddie 68 65
134 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 67 67, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 67 67, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 64 70, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 66 68, Ross McGowan 66 68
135 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 67 68, Peter Whiteford 68 67, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 67 68
136 Soren Hansen (Den) 68 68, Nick Dougherty 67 69, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 66 70, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 69 67
137 Gary Orr 70 67, Ross Fisher 67 70, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 69 68, Colin Montgomerie 69 68, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 70 67, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 71 66, Simon Wakefield 71 66
138 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 69 69, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 72 66, Paul Waring 66 72, Kyron Sullivan 70 68, Darren Clarke 70 68, Julio Zapata (Arg) 69 69, Stephen Gallacher 69 69, Jamie Donaldson 72 66, Sam Little 68 70, Thomas Levet (Fra) 69 69, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 71 67
139 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 69 70, Garry Houston 71 68, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 69 70, Phillip Price 68 71, Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 69 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 68, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 71 68, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 69 70, Johan Edfors (Swe) 69 70, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 69, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 66 73, Rory McIlroy 68 71, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 71 68, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 71 68
140 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 70 70, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 72 68, Peter Baker 70 70, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 70 70, Marcel Siem (Ger) 71 69, David Lynn 72 68, David Frost (Rsa) 69 71, Alastair Forsyth 67 73, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 74 66, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 71 69, Mark Foster 69 71, Barry Lane 71 69
141 Graeme McDowell 69 72, Luis Claverie (Spa) 70 71, David Howell 75 66, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 70 71, Danny Willett 70 71, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 73 68, Lee Slattery 70 71, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 70 71, Tom Whitehouse 73 68, Ariel Canete (Arg) 72 69, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 73 68, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 69 72
MISSED THE CUT
142 Joakim Backstrom (Swe) 72 70, Damien McGrane 73 69, Steve Webster 69 73, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 73 69, Oliver Wilson 71 71, Peter Lawrie 70 72, Simon Khan 70 72, Carl Suneson (Spa) 69 73, Sven Struver (Ger) 75 67, Markus Brier (Aut) 72 70, Peter Fowler (Aus) 71 71, Paul McGinley 72 70, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 72 70, Bradley Dredge 73 69
143 Craig Lee 73 70, Richard Bland 72 71, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 76 67, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 73 70, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 72 71, Mark Brown (USA) 70 73, Paul Broadhurst 73 70, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 75 68, Simon Lilly 75 68, Craig Smith 71 72, Paul Lawrie 70 73, Richard Finch 72 71, Gregory Havret (Fra) 70 73
144 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 69 75, Stuart Manley 72 72, Simon Dyson 74 70, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 71 73, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 74 70, Anthony Wall 70 74, Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 75, Marc Warren 70 74, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 76 68, Miles Tunnicliff 73 71, Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 72 72, Padraig Harrington 70 74
145 Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 72 73, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 75 70, Paolo Terreni (Ita) 73 72, Llewellyn Matthews 70 75, Sion Bebb 73 72, Rhys Davies 71 74, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 72 73, Lee S James 70 75, Alexander Noren (Swe) 71 74, Stephen Dodd 76 69, Peter Evans 70 75, Phillip Archer 70 75
146 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 71 75, Zane Scotland 74 72, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 75, John Bickerton 75 71, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 73 73
147 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 74 73, Iain Pyman 74 73, Leif Westerberg (Swe) 74 73, Gary Murphy 74 73, Ben Westgate 72 75, Florian Praegant (Aut) 76 71, Ben Enoch 71 76
148 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 76 72, David Dixon 76 72, Benoit Teilleria (Fra) 72 76, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 76 72, Philip Golding 72 76, Oliver Fisher 75 73
149 Martin Wiegele (Aut) 80 69, David Drysdale 74 75, James Kamte (Rsa) 69 80
150 Paul Streeter 72 78, David Park 74 76, Scott Drummond 75 75
152 Juan Abbate (Arg) 73 79, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 7676
154 Zach Gould (USA) 77 77
155 Nigel Edwards 75 80