Monday finish for HSBC Champions Tournament

Graeme McDowell moves into

picture as he begins Round 3

FROM THE A O L GOLF NEWS SERVICE

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell joined fellow Ryder Cup debutant Oliver Wilson a shot adrift of HSBC Champions leaders Henrik Stenson and Sergio Garcia after third-round play at the rain-affected event briefly got underway in Shanghai following the earlier completion of the delayed second round.
World No 3 Garcia and Sweden's Stenson sit at the top of the leaderboard on 10-under-par after two rounds, with England's Wilson a shot further back after signing for a second round four-under-par 68 at a damp Sheshan International Golf Club.
Following a flawless second round 65, McDowell was one of only a handful of players to begin their third rounds before bad light stopped play, but the world number 33 used the opportunity to join Wilson at nine-under after picking up a solitary birdie over four holes.
Tournament organisers have confirmed the first event on the 2006 European Tour schedule and first on the new lucrative Race to Dubai, will be played over 72 holes, with the leaders set to complete their fourth rounds on Monday following a three-hour delay this morning following torrential overnight rain.
Stenson, who began the day at the top of leaderboard after carding a first round seven-under-par 65 on Thursday before Friday's play was completely washed out, produced a solid three-under 69.
"I had a great first round. I have been struggling with my scoring a little bit lately so it was good to get that one in," he said.
"Then there was a long wait to get out there again, but I was pleased with my scoring this afternoon. I was still putting pretty good and I played mainly three woods to keep the ball in play and I hit some good approaches and was plodding along and making the odd birdie so it has been good."
Garcia maintained his bid to overtake Phil Mickelson as world No 2 with a bogey-free 68 as the Spaniard picked up all four strokes on his back nine courtesy of an eagle and two late birdies.
"I stayed pretty patient, had a lot of pars and I looked like I wasn't going to birdie. The good thing was I was not making any bogeys," said the winner of this year's Players Championship.
"It was a solid round but it have been different if I had made a couple of birdies earlier but at the end of the day, it was still a nice solid round."
SECOND-ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 144 (2 x 72)

134 Sergio Garcia (Spa) 66 68, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 65 69
135 Oliver Wilson 67 68, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 70 65
136 Phil Mickelson (USA) 66 70, Graeme McDowell 71 65
137 Adam Scott (Aus) 66 71, Scott Strange (Aus) 69 68, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 67 70, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 70 67
138 Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 68 70, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 69 69
139 Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 70, Anthony Kim (USA) 66 73, Damien McGrane 68 71, Padraig Harrington 69 70
140 Wen-Tang Lin (Tai) 69 71, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 71 69, Peter Lawrie 68 72, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 69
141 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 70 71, Paul Casey 71 70, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 69 72, Soren Hansen (Den) 71 70, Ian Poulter 68 73, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 68 73, Ben Leong (Mal) 69 72
142 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 69 73, Seung-yul Noh (Kor) 70 72, Andrew Bonhomme (Aus) 73 69
143 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 70 73, Ross Fisher 69 74, Jean Hugo (Rsa) 73 70, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 73 70, Darren Clarke 72 71, Richard Finch 71 72, Sang-moon Bae (Kor) 73 70, Lei Shang (Tpe) 71 72, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 75
144 Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 69 75, James Kingston (Rsa) 73 71, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 72 72, Ashun Wu (Chn) 73 71, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 74 70
145 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 71 74, KJ Choi (Kor) 71 74, Camilo Villegas (Col) 73 72, Lian-Wei Zhang (Chn) 71 74, Mark Brown (USA) 71 74
146 David Horsey 75 71, David Dixon 74 72, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 73 73, Gregory Havret (Fra) 76 70
147 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 73 74
148 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 72 76, John Bickerton 77 71, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 76 72, Wen Teh Lu (Tpe) 73 75
149 David Gleeson (Aus) 76 73, Rick Kulacz (Aus) 73 76, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 73 76
150 James Kamte (Rsa) 77 73, Joong Kyung Mo (Kor) 72 78, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 78 72
151 Scott Hend (Aus) 76 75, Wei-Huang Wu (Tpe) 73 78, Hao Yuan (Chn) 75 76, Alastair Forsyth 73 78
152 Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 75 77
153 Bryan Saltus (USA) 78 75, David Howell 79 74, Angelo Que (Phi) 74 79
154 Inn-choon Hwang (Kor) 77 77
155 Chao Li (Chn) 76 79
157 Kangchun Wu (Chn) 77 80
165 Shaun Norris (Rsa) 88 77