Korean Choi goes two shots clear at
halfway in Volvo China Open
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Korean golfer Choi Ho-sung produced four birdies over the back nine to establish a two stroke lead after a second round 67 in the Volvo China Open today.
Choi only started playing at the age of 26, and was 28 before he turned professional.
“I turned pro in 2001 when I was 28, so very late and I am very pleased to participate in this tournament. I feel this course suits me, I feel like it’s my course,” he said.
On an afternoon that saw several names at the top of the leaderboard including the English trio of Nick Dougherty, Simon Dyson and Richard Finch, it was some inspired putting which put Choi in front on six under.
Chapchai Nirat and 2007 winner Markus Brier share second on four under, while Irishman Paul McGinley fired a sparkling 67 to climb to three under alongside Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño in a tie for fourth.
Dyson and Finch finished two under after rounds of 73 and 71, respectively, while Dougherty struggled over the back nine, coming home in 43 to sign for a 79 and three over.
Brier held a one stroke advantage overnight on five under but a pair of bogey fives at the first two holes saw the Austrian slip down the leaderboard.
That allowed Dyson to join Nirat, who had carded a morning 71, and Brier, who had overcome his inauspicious start, at the top of the pile.
It proved a brief stay for the man from York, however, as he recorded a triple bogey 7 at the 11th.
And, although he pulled a shot back at the 13th, a double bogey at the 14th when he found the water compounded Dyson's misery.
Finch moved to five-under and first place outright with birdies at the 12th and 13th following but he could not hold on to his advantage either as some poor chipping led to a double bogey at the 14th and that was followed by another dropped shot at the 15th.
That gave Choi the chance to establish an unexpected lead and after the 35 year old made a crucial par save on the 12th having birdied the previous two holes, he rolled in a ten footer for birdie on the 13th and from the fringe on the 14th to move to seven under.
A bogey at the 15th brought him back to within two of the chasing pack but the Korean was satisfied he hung in after a poor start that saw him drop a shot at the first hole.
"I three putted the first hole and then I had to work hard for the rest of my round and I'm going to take that through the rest of the tournament," he said.
Starting at the tenth, McGinley had taken advantage of benign morning conditions to sink five birdies over his opening nine holes before playing the last nine in level par to leap into contention.
"I played pretty well yesterday but putted really, really poorly. I played pretty much the same but putted fantastically, that's the difference. A 74 yesterday, 67 today, just shows the difference," he said.
"The greens are firm and slopey, you have to be very precise with your distance control.
"If you can hit between ten and 14 greens around here, I think you've played very well and then the big key is to putt well, which fortunately I did."
“The conditions were more difficult plus I made it more difficult for myself, especially at the beginning of the round because I had problems getting my irons on line so I missed a lot of the greens at the start of the day,” said Brier.
“But after making two bogeys at the start I managed to recover and keep it together. It could have gone much worse.”
Dyson birdied the 15th and 17th to remain in the hunt and was relatively pleased despite his troubles coming home.
"I hit one bad tee shot, made seven, and then I was a bit unlucky with my second shot on 14. I had a bit of mud on my ball which took it straight left into the water," he said.
"I dropped five shots in two holes and shot one over so bar that, it was a pretty good day. I played really nice."
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Beijing CBD International Golf Club,
Beijing, China
Par 144 (2 x 72)
138 Ho-sung Choi (Kor) 70 68
140 Markus Brier (Aut) 67 73, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69 71
141 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 71 70, Paul McGinley 74 67
142 David McKenzie (Aus) 68 74, Richard Finch 71 71, Simon Dyson 69 73
143 Scott Strange (Aus) 70 73, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned) 74 69, Graeme Storm 72 71
144 Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 72 72, Aaron Townsend (Aus) 73 71, Won-Kyoung Heo (Kor) 72 72, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 73 71, Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha) 70 74
145 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 73 72, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 72 73, Branden Grace (Rsa) 72 73, Scott Drummond 75 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 74, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 75, Simon Wakefield 76 69, Stephen Dodd 74 71, Craig Scott (Aus) 71 74, David Dixon 72 73, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 72 73
146 Damien McGrane 72 74, James Kingston (Rsa) 73 73, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 74, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 75 71, Kyung-nam Kang (Kor) 76 70, Johan Edfors (Swe) 74 72, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 73 73, Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor) 74 72, A-Shun Wu (Chn) 74 72, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 72 74, Kurt Barnes (Aus) 76 70, Jae Hoon Jung (Kor) 75 71, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 73 73, Ashley Hall (Aus) 75 71, Ki joon Song (Aus) 71 75, Chris Wood 72 74, Gareth Maybin 76 70, Colin Montgomerie 73 73, Brett Rumford (Aus) 74 72, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 76 70, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 74 72, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 71 75
147 Richard Bland 76 71, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 76 71, David Gleeson (Aus) 74 73, Wi-joong Kim (Kor) 75 72, Nick Dougherty 68 79, Andrew Coltart 74 73, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 72 75, Lian-Wei Zhang (Chn) 73 74, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 76 71, Kyong-jun Moon (Kor) 73 74, Matthew Millar (Aus) 70 77, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 74 73
148 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 71 77, Chris Gaunt (Aus) 74 74, Paul Waring 72 76, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 74 74, Mark Brown (USA) 71 77, Jun Zhou (Chn) 76 72, Anthony Snobeck (Fra) 75 73, Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 73 75, Wil Besseling (Ned) 72 76, Michael Long (Nzl) 73 75, Miles Tunnicliff 74 74, Pablo Martin (Spa) 75 73
MISSED THE CUT
149 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 76 73, Joel Sjoholm (Swe) 73 76, Sung-hoon Kang (Kor) 77 72, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 78 71, Wei-Huang Wu (Tpe) 73 76, Peter Lawrie 72 77, Barry Lane 74 75
150 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 73 77, Zane Scotland 77 73, Ake Nilsson (Rsa) 75 75, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 73 77, Jason King (Aus) 75 75, Tim Wood (Aus) 76 74, David Frost (Rsa) 76 74, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 77 73, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 75 75, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 77 73, Tae hee Lee (Kor) 75 75, Anthony Brown (Aus) 75 75, Jian Hou (Chn) 72 78, Seung Ho Lee (Kor) 76 74
151 Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 79 72, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 78 73, Jae-woong Eom (Kor) 78 73, Ryan Haller (Aus) 77 74, Seve Benson 78 73, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 76 75, Gui Ming Liao (Chn) 78 73, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 74 77
152 Anthony Summers (Aus) 76 76, Zhi-peng Fan (Chn) 74 78, Michael Moore (Aus) 78 74
153 Anton Haig (Rsa) 75 78, Ming-chuan Chen (Tpe) 79 74, Kang-Chun Wu (Chn) 78 75
154 Scott Laycock (Aus) 77 77, Shin-Ching Chan (Tpe) 74 80, Kyung-sool Kang (Kor) 77 77, Stuart Bouvier (Aus) 75 79, Ji-Ho Jung (Kor) 75 79, Gary Murphy 76 78, Hao Yuan (Chn) 76 78, Dong Su (Chn) 73 81, Chao Li (Chn) 75 79
155 Robert Dinwiddie 74 81, An-Da Liu (Chn) 82 73, Guo-Jie Liu (Tpe) 74 81, Adam Crawford (Aus) 76 79, Justin Evans 81 74, Xiao Xuan Xing (Chn) 74 81, Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 75 80, Wen-yi Huang (Chn) 78 77, Lei Shang (Tpe) 79 76, Qin Xu (Chn) 75 80
156 Zhi-Jin Xiao (Tpe) 76 80, Tristan Lambert (Aus) 80 76, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 81 75, Yong-liang Shao (Chn) 83 73, Peter Wilson (Aus) 76 80, Xiao-ma Chen (Chn) 80 76
157 An-lin Liu (Chn) 76 81, Qing Liu (Chn) 77 80, Tae-hyun Jun (Kor) 79 78
158 Wei-Tze Yeh (Tai) 80 78, Terry Price (Aus) 82 76, Myung-ho Kwon (Kor) 77 81
159 Ming Jie Huang (Chn) 81 78
160 Xin-jun Zhang (Chn) 80 80, Xin Liu (Chn) 78 82
161 Shu Tao Gu (Chn) 81 80, Cui-Lin Gu (Chn) 79 82, Michael Curtain (Aus) 80 81, Wei-hai Kong (Chn) 85 76
162 Wei Huo (Chn) 82 80, Wen-xu Lu (Chn) 79 83, Yu-xiang Liu (Chn) 80 82
163 Shu-xin Chen (Chn) 85 78, Shao-cai He (Chn) 83 80, Ji-man Kang (Kor) 81 82
164 Tian Yuan (Chn) 85 79
halfway in Volvo China Open
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Korean golfer Choi Ho-sung produced four birdies over the back nine to establish a two stroke lead after a second round 67 in the Volvo China Open today.
Choi only started playing at the age of 26, and was 28 before he turned professional.
“I turned pro in 2001 when I was 28, so very late and I am very pleased to participate in this tournament. I feel this course suits me, I feel like it’s my course,” he said.
On an afternoon that saw several names at the top of the leaderboard including the English trio of Nick Dougherty, Simon Dyson and Richard Finch, it was some inspired putting which put Choi in front on six under.
Chapchai Nirat and 2007 winner Markus Brier share second on four under, while Irishman Paul McGinley fired a sparkling 67 to climb to three under alongside Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño in a tie for fourth.
Dyson and Finch finished two under after rounds of 73 and 71, respectively, while Dougherty struggled over the back nine, coming home in 43 to sign for a 79 and three over.
Brier held a one stroke advantage overnight on five under but a pair of bogey fives at the first two holes saw the Austrian slip down the leaderboard.
That allowed Dyson to join Nirat, who had carded a morning 71, and Brier, who had overcome his inauspicious start, at the top of the pile.
It proved a brief stay for the man from York, however, as he recorded a triple bogey 7 at the 11th.
And, although he pulled a shot back at the 13th, a double bogey at the 14th when he found the water compounded Dyson's misery.
Finch moved to five-under and first place outright with birdies at the 12th and 13th following but he could not hold on to his advantage either as some poor chipping led to a double bogey at the 14th and that was followed by another dropped shot at the 15th.
That gave Choi the chance to establish an unexpected lead and after the 35 year old made a crucial par save on the 12th having birdied the previous two holes, he rolled in a ten footer for birdie on the 13th and from the fringe on the 14th to move to seven under.
A bogey at the 15th brought him back to within two of the chasing pack but the Korean was satisfied he hung in after a poor start that saw him drop a shot at the first hole.
"I three putted the first hole and then I had to work hard for the rest of my round and I'm going to take that through the rest of the tournament," he said.
Starting at the tenth, McGinley had taken advantage of benign morning conditions to sink five birdies over his opening nine holes before playing the last nine in level par to leap into contention.
"I played pretty well yesterday but putted really, really poorly. I played pretty much the same but putted fantastically, that's the difference. A 74 yesterday, 67 today, just shows the difference," he said.
"The greens are firm and slopey, you have to be very precise with your distance control.
"If you can hit between ten and 14 greens around here, I think you've played very well and then the big key is to putt well, which fortunately I did."
“The conditions were more difficult plus I made it more difficult for myself, especially at the beginning of the round because I had problems getting my irons on line so I missed a lot of the greens at the start of the day,” said Brier.
“But after making two bogeys at the start I managed to recover and keep it together. It could have gone much worse.”
Dyson birdied the 15th and 17th to remain in the hunt and was relatively pleased despite his troubles coming home.
"I hit one bad tee shot, made seven, and then I was a bit unlucky with my second shot on 14. I had a bit of mud on my ball which took it straight left into the water," he said.
"I dropped five shots in two holes and shot one over so bar that, it was a pretty good day. I played really nice."
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Beijing CBD International Golf Club,
Beijing, China
Par 144 (2 x 72)
138 Ho-sung Choi (Kor) 70 68
140 Markus Brier (Aut) 67 73, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69 71
141 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 71 70, Paul McGinley 74 67
142 David McKenzie (Aus) 68 74, Richard Finch 71 71, Simon Dyson 69 73
143 Scott Strange (Aus) 70 73, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned) 74 69, Graeme Storm 72 71
144 Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 72 72, Aaron Townsend (Aus) 73 71, Won-Kyoung Heo (Kor) 72 72, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 73 71, Chinnarat Phadungsil (Tha) 70 74
145 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 73 72, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 72 73, Branden Grace (Rsa) 72 73, Scott Drummond 75 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 74, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 75, Simon Wakefield 76 69, Stephen Dodd 74 71, Craig Scott (Aus) 71 74, David Dixon 72 73, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 72 73
146 Damien McGrane 72 74, James Kingston (Rsa) 73 73, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 74, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 75 71, Kyung-nam Kang (Kor) 76 70, Johan Edfors (Swe) 74 72, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 73 73, Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor) 74 72, A-Shun Wu (Chn) 74 72, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 72 74, Kurt Barnes (Aus) 76 70, Jae Hoon Jung (Kor) 75 71, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 73 73, Ashley Hall (Aus) 75 71, Ki joon Song (Aus) 71 75, Chris Wood 72 74, Gareth Maybin 76 70, Colin Montgomerie 73 73, Brett Rumford (Aus) 74 72, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 76 70, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 74 72, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 71 75
147 Richard Bland 76 71, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 76 71, David Gleeson (Aus) 74 73, Wi-joong Kim (Kor) 75 72, Nick Dougherty 68 79, Andrew Coltart 74 73, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 72 75, Lian-Wei Zhang (Chn) 73 74, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 76 71, Kyong-jun Moon (Kor) 73 74, Matthew Millar (Aus) 70 77, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 74 73
148 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 71 77, Chris Gaunt (Aus) 74 74, Paul Waring 72 76, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 74 74, Mark Brown (USA) 71 77, Jun Zhou (Chn) 76 72, Anthony Snobeck (Fra) 75 73, Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 73 75, Wil Besseling (Ned) 72 76, Michael Long (Nzl) 73 75, Miles Tunnicliff 74 74, Pablo Martin (Spa) 75 73
MISSED THE CUT
149 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 76 73, Joel Sjoholm (Swe) 73 76, Sung-hoon Kang (Kor) 77 72, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 78 71, Wei-Huang Wu (Tpe) 73 76, Peter Lawrie 72 77, Barry Lane 74 75
150 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 73 77, Zane Scotland 77 73, Ake Nilsson (Rsa) 75 75, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 73 77, Jason King (Aus) 75 75, Tim Wood (Aus) 76 74, David Frost (Rsa) 76 74, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 77 73, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 75 75, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 77 73, Tae hee Lee (Kor) 75 75, Anthony Brown (Aus) 75 75, Jian Hou (Chn) 72 78, Seung Ho Lee (Kor) 76 74
151 Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 79 72, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 78 73, Jae-woong Eom (Kor) 78 73, Ryan Haller (Aus) 77 74, Seve Benson 78 73, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 76 75, Gui Ming Liao (Chn) 78 73, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 74 77
152 Anthony Summers (Aus) 76 76, Zhi-peng Fan (Chn) 74 78, Michael Moore (Aus) 78 74
153 Anton Haig (Rsa) 75 78, Ming-chuan Chen (Tpe) 79 74, Kang-Chun Wu (Chn) 78 75
154 Scott Laycock (Aus) 77 77, Shin-Ching Chan (Tpe) 74 80, Kyung-sool Kang (Kor) 77 77, Stuart Bouvier (Aus) 75 79, Ji-Ho Jung (Kor) 75 79, Gary Murphy 76 78, Hao Yuan (Chn) 76 78, Dong Su (Chn) 73 81, Chao Li (Chn) 75 79
155 Robert Dinwiddie 74 81, An-Da Liu (Chn) 82 73, Guo-Jie Liu (Tpe) 74 81, Adam Crawford (Aus) 76 79, Justin Evans 81 74, Xiao Xuan Xing (Chn) 74 81, Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 75 80, Wen-yi Huang (Chn) 78 77, Lei Shang (Tpe) 79 76, Qin Xu (Chn) 75 80
156 Zhi-Jin Xiao (Tpe) 76 80, Tristan Lambert (Aus) 80 76, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 81 75, Yong-liang Shao (Chn) 83 73, Peter Wilson (Aus) 76 80, Xiao-ma Chen (Chn) 80 76
157 An-lin Liu (Chn) 76 81, Qing Liu (Chn) 77 80, Tae-hyun Jun (Kor) 79 78
158 Wei-Tze Yeh (Tai) 80 78, Terry Price (Aus) 82 76, Myung-ho Kwon (Kor) 77 81
159 Ming Jie Huang (Chn) 81 78
160 Xin-jun Zhang (Chn) 80 80, Xin Liu (Chn) 78 82
161 Shu Tao Gu (Chn) 81 80, Cui-Lin Gu (Chn) 79 82, Michael Curtain (Aus) 80 81, Wei-hai Kong (Chn) 85 76
162 Wei Huo (Chn) 82 80, Wen-xu Lu (Chn) 79 83, Yu-xiang Liu (Chn) 80 82
163 Shu-xin Chen (Chn) 85 78, Shao-cai He (Chn) 83 80, Ji-man Kang (Kor) 81 82
164 Tian Yuan (Chn) 85 79
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