Sunday, April 23, 2017

Wiesberger tops Fleetwood in play-off

at Shenzhen International

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Bernd Wiesberger beat Tommy Fleetwood in a play-off to win the Shenzhen International - his fourth European Tour title - on a dramatic final day at Genzon Golf Club, China.

Making his 200th appearance on the European Tour, the Austrian entered the final round with a three-shot lead and eight shots ahead of Fleetwood but the Englishman fired a stunning 63 to set the clubhouse target and share top spot at 16 under.

Wiesberger made excellent par saves on the 12th and 17th and nearly hit the pin with his approach to the last but was forced to settle for a par and a trip back up the 18th with Fleetwood for a play-off.

He went on to put his approach to five feet and roll in the putt for a birdie and victory on debut at the tournament.

The 31 year old has not missed a cut since the 2016 US
 PGA Championship, producing seven top five finishes in that time, and his first victory in a play-off after losing the previous three times.

England's Ross Fisher (68) held a share of the lead stood on the 18th tee but a three-putt bogey saw him fall out of the play-off into a share of third at 15 under par alongside France’s Grégory Bourdy, a shot clear of South African Dylan Frittelli, American David Lipsky and Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti.





STATEMENT REGARDING DAVID HOWELL

At the conclusion of the final round of the Shenzhen International, England’s David Howell approached officials with concerns relating to his preferred lie on hole 15 during the second round.

He was unsure if he had taken a preferred lie using the correct score card length or the incorrect club-length and therefore insisted on accepting the appropriate penalty.

He incurred a two strokes penalty for playing from a wrong place under rule 20-7 and an additional two strokes penalty under rule 6-6d for an incorrectly returned score card.

The four strokes penalty to the second round would have seen Howell missing the cut, therefore he will receive no prize money.
 
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Final scores:

par 288 (4x72)

272 B Wiesberger (Aut) 67 65 69 71, T Fleetwood (Eng)


69 71 69 63, (Wiesburger won play-off at first extra hole). 

273 R Fisher (Eng) 71 65 69 68, G Bourdy (Fra) 67 69 70



67 



274 F Zanotti (Par) 71 70 68 65, D Lipsky (USA) 73 65 67


69, D Frittelli (SAf) 68 68 68 70
 

275 A Levy (Fra) 74 68 64 69, T Olesen (Den) 68 68 72 67,


T Jaidee (Tha) 67 72 70 66
 

276 G Coetzee (SAf) 70 68 67 71, L Yan-Wei (Chn) 69 71


66 70, P Larrazábal (Spn) 72 71 67 66, 



277 J Smith (Eng) 69 69 69 70, E De La Riva (Spn) 68 73


69 67, M Southgate (Eng) 72 71 69 65, B Ritthammer


(Ger) 69 73 69 66, D Im (USA) 69 70 69 69, A Björk (Swe)


71 67 71 68, B Rumford (Aus) 72 67 68 70 



278 K Aphibarnrat (Tha) 75 66 70 67, R Ramsay (Sco)


69 68 72 69, M Armitage (Eng) 71 71 68 68, S Jamieson


(Sco) 69 69 73 67
 

279 N Elvira (Spn) 71 74 68 66 



280 S Gallacher (Sco) 70 72 68 70, R Gouveia (Por) 72


72 69 67, B Watson (USA) 66 70 70 74, 



281 P Hanson (Swe) 70 71 71 69, J Morrison (Eng) 70 66


74 71, J Luiten (Ned) 71 71 70 69, A Cañizares (Spn) 72 69


75 65
 

282 A Dodt (Aus) 70 73 72 67, J Quesne (Fra) 71 68 71


72, P Uihlein (USA) 71 70 72 69, P Dunne (Irl) 70 72 70 70,


M Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 69 70 72 71, L Xue-Wen (Chn) 71 72


70 69
 

283 M Manassero (Ita) 70 71 75 67, N Colsaerts (Bel) 75


70 71 67, M Korhonen (Fin) 74 68 71 70, D Burmester


(SAf) 67 70 68 78, D Stewart (Sco) 71 67 74 71, L Yuxin


(Chn) 74 67 70 72 





284 B Hebert (Fra) 72 70 71 71, M Ilonen (Fin) 73 71 68


72, H Porteous (RSA) 67 73 72 72, B Stone (SAf) 74 71 64


75, J Scrivener (Aus) 70 72 70 72, M Kieffer (Ger) 67 72 73


72 



285 R Fox (NZ) 71 71 69 74, S Brazel (Aus) 71 74 69 71, 



286 L Bjerregaard (Den) 71 74 71 70, R Wattel (Fra) 71 73


71 71, R Bland (Eng) 73 71 71 71, C Zi-Hao (Chn) 73 69 72


72
 

287 H Ze-Yu (Chn) 72 72 70 73, Z Hui-Lin (Chn) 71 74 70


72, G Storm (Eng) 74 68 74 71, R Karlberg (Swe) 74 70 70


73, W Ormsby (Aus) 71 69 76 71, W Hongfu (Chn) 72 69


76 70, D Drysdale (Sco) 70 72 73 72 



289 P Peterson (USA) 74 71 70 74, Y Tian (Chn) 71 73 71


74, J Walters (SAf) 73 70 74 72 



290 A Knappe (Ger) 74 70 72 74, G Havret (Fra) 70 71 78


71 



292 H Wen-Yi (Chn) 71 74 74 73 



293 E Molinari (Ita) 75 70 73 75
 

294 J Lagergren (Swe) 72 72 81 69 



295 C Paisley (Eng) 72 73 76 74
 

298 L Ding-Feng (Chn) 69 75 79 75 
 
 


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