Winner Manassero scrambling for Shanghai visa

FROM THE GOLF.COM WEBSITE
CASTELLON, Spain (AP) — Matteo Manassero is scrambling to get a visa on short notice so he can play in the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai next week.
The 17-year-old Italian qualified Sunday when he became the youngest winner in European Tour history at the Castello Masters in Spain.
Rather than travel as scheduled on Monday from Valencia to Valderrama to play in Thursday's Andalucia Masters, Manassero flew back to Italy to try to obtain a visa for the November 4-7 World Golf Championship event.
But his manager, Gorga Guillen, says getting a letter of invitation from China on short notice "is not going to be easy."


RECAP ON CASTELLO MASTERS FINAL TOTALS


Par 284 (4x71)
268 Matteo Manassero (Ita) 68 66 67 67
272 Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 70 66 68 68
273 Gary Boyd 68 68 63 74, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 68 67 66 72, Joost Luiten (Ned) 68 72 65 68, Peter Lawrie 72 64 67 70
274 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 68 66 70 70
275 Martin Wiegele (Aut) 71 66 69 69, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 66 71 71 67, Carl Suneson (Spa) 68 69 67 71, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 70 67 69 69, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 69 64 71 71
276 Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 71 64 68 73, John Parry 70 71 63 72, Gary Orr 66 72 71 67, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 69 70 69 68, Tano Goya (Arg) 71 66 72 67, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 71 70 68 67
277 Richard Finch 66 70 67 74, Gareth Maybin 68 73 69 67, Phillip Price 69 68 69 71, Marcel Siem (Ger) 71 70 71 65
278 Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 71 66 68 73, Alexander Noren (Swe) 68 68 68 74, Oliver Wilson 69 70 70 69, Richard McEvoy 71 67 70 70, David Horsey 65 72 71 70, Santiago Luna (Spa) 72 69 66 71, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 67 68 74 69
279 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 67 70 74 68, Damien McGrane 76 65 71 67, Anders Hansen (Den) 69 68 71 71, Scott Strange (Aus) 73 66 73 67, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 64 71 71 73, David Drysdale 67 72 71 69, Paul Lawrie 64 70 72 73, Richard Green (Aus) 69 70 71 69
280 Steve Webster 69 69 74 68, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 72 71 68 69, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 70 68 68 74
281 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 70 69 73 69, Jamie Donaldson 70 71 70 70, Julien Quesne (Fra) 69 69 70 73
282 Richard Bland 67 75 70 70, Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 67 70 73 72, Paul Waring 69 72 71 70, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 70 73 69 70, Ariel Canete (Arg) 70 69 73 70, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 70 72 69, Javi Colomo (Spa) 69 73 72 68
283 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 69 72 71 71, Sam Hutsby 71 69 72 71, Paul McGinley 74 66 72 71, Steven O'Hara 72 71 70 70
284 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 69 74 70 71, Marco Ruiz (Par) 69 74 72 69, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 72 69 74 69, Mark Foster 72 68 71 73
285 Richie Ramsay 71 70 72 72, James Kingston (Rsa) 72 71 70 72, Andrew Coltart 70 73 67 75, Mark Brown (Nzl) 70 71 70 74, Simon Khan 66 74 73 72, Bradley Dredge 72 70 73 70
286 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 72 69 72 73
287 Jamie Elson 72 71 69 75, Shane Lowry 69 70 76 72, Markus Brier (Aut) 72 71 68 76
288 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 74 68 70 76, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 73 70 69 76, Ross McGowan 73 70 71 74
290 Michael Hoey 67 70 75 78
292 Alastair Forsyth 69 73 74 76
293 Todd Hamilton (USA) 69 74 70 80
DQ: Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa) 73 68 71



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