Friday, April 29, 2016

Felipe Aguilar takes clubhouse lead at 

weather-hit China Open




Chile's Felipe Aguilar claimed the clubhouse lead in the weather-disrupted Volvo China Open after finally overcoming the effects of his unorthodox winter activities.
Aguilar stormed home in 31 at Topwin Golf and Country Club to add a flawless 65 to his opening 68 and set the target on 11 under par, one shot ahead of Sweden's Alex Noren and Austria's Bernd Wiesberger.
The 41-year-old had missed the cut in six straight events before finishing tied 58th in the Shenzhen International last week and admitted completing an Ironman triathlon over the winter had taken its toll.

"It's been a tough beginning of the year so hopefully this will be a turnaround point," Aguilar said.
"I think I believe my doctors when they said the Ironman was going to affect my fitness for the first two months [of the year]. They said it could take 45 days [to recover] and it took close to 60 days.
"It takes a lot of time and energy and both sports don't go along with each other. I look back on it as a great experience and I'll do it again after I quit playing golf."
Play was initially suspended due to the threat of lightning and then abandoned for the day due to darkness, with the second round set to resume early on Saturday.


First-round leader Hennie Otto has four holes to play and is two shots off the lead on nine under par alongside England's Tyrrell Hatton, Denmark's Lucas Bjerregaard, Germany's Marcel Siem and South Korea's Tae-hoon Kim, who recorded a hole-in-one on his way to a brilliant 64.
Kim holed out on the 177-yard 13th hole in a remarkable run of scoring which saw him play a 12-hole stretch in nine under par, before dropping his only shot of the day on the 17th.
"I played well and after I got the hole-in-one I became really confident and finished really well," the world No 563 said.
"It was about 165 metres but with the view from the tee, we couldn't see the hole, only the top of the flag. I was aiming a little to the left of the pin and I just hit a seven iron, it was a beautiful shot and the galleries beside the green shouted out so that's how I knew."
Noren carded five birdies and no bogeys to record a second consecutive 67, while Wiesberger carded four birdies and one bogey in his 69.
"I felt relaxed out there," Wiesberger said. "I played great golf yesterday and scored really well in tough conditions yesterday so I was looking forward to getting out there this morning and trying to do the same.
"I played decent, not quite as well as yesterday, especially off the tee and was struggling with the pace of my putting early on. I left a lot of putts short but all in all I feel well on the golf course and it's a good first two days."
Defending champion Wu Ashun, who became the first Chinese player to win a European Tour event on home soil 12 months ago, is four under par with seven holes remaining, with the halfway cut projected to fall at two under.
1 Felipe Aguilar 68    65




133
T2 Alex Noren 67 67




134
T2 Bernd Wiesberger 65 69




134
T4 Tae-hoon Kim 71 64




135
T4 Tyrrell Hatton 68 67




135
T4 Lucas Bjerregaard 68 67




135
T4 Hennie Otto 63 56




119
T4 Marcel Siem* 68 47




115
T9 Hao Tong Li 69 67




136
T9 Maximilian Kieffer 70 66




136
T11 Nicolas Colsaerts 70 67




137
T11 Alexander Levy 70 67




137
T11 Thorbjorn Olesen 71 66




137
T11 Jorge Campillo 70 67




137
T11 Gary Boyd 72 65




137
T11 Gregory Havret* 70 38




108
T11 Peter Hanson* 66 39




105
T11 Fabrizio Zanotti 66 39




105
T11 Richard Bland 69 32




101
T11 Gregory Bourdy 66 35




101
T21 Haydn Porteous 69 69




138
T21 Joost Luiten 67 71




138
T21 Romain Wattel 72 66




138
T21 Chieh-Po Lee* 69 49




118
T21 Daniel Brooks 70 32




102
T21 Borja Virto Astudillo* 67 23




90
T27 Raphael Jacquelin 70 69




139
T27 Rhys Davies 71 68




139
T27 Magnus A. Carlsson* 69 57




126
T27 Eduardo De La Riva 69 50




119
T27 Pelle Edberg* 72 47




119
T27 Nathan Holman 68 51




119
T27 Trevor Fisher Jr.* 70 44




114
T27 Stephen Gallacher 69 42




111
T27 Rikard Karlberg 69 42




111
T27 Richie Ramsay* 68 30




98
T27 David Lipsky 69 25




94
T27 Renato Paratore* 69 25




94
T39 Ze-cheng Dou 72 68




140
T39 David McKenzie 71 69




140
T39 Craig Lee 72 68




140
T39 Julien Quesne 70 70




140
T39 Chris Paisley* 71 56




127
T39 Joakim Lagergren 68 52




120
T39 Roope Kakko* 66 49




115
T39 Wolmer Murillo* 68 47




115
T39 Ashun Wu 71 41




112
T39 Nick Cullen 70 42




112
T39 Jeff Winther 68 40




108
T50 Jason Scrivener 72 69




141
T50 Marc Warren 73 68




141
T50 Johan Carlsson 69 72




141
T50 Wei Huang Wu 72 69




141
T50 Sebastien Gros 72 69




141
T50 David Drysdale* 72 49




121
T50 Ross Fisher 72 49




121
T50 Scott Hend 71 47




118
T50 Miguel Angel Jimenez 69 44




113
T50 Prom Meesawat 71 42




113
T50 Bradley Dredge 70 31




101
T50 Darren Fichardt 69 27




96
T62 Morten Madsen 72 70




142
T62 Jin Choi 70 72




142
T62 Mikko Ilonen 73 69




142
T62 Robert Karlsson 73 49




122
T62 Graeme Storm* 73 44




117
T62 Lee Slattery 71 48




119
T62 Benjamin Hebert* 69 44




113
T62 Brett Rumford 70 44




114
T70 Daniel Valente 71 72




143
T70 Michael Hoey 74 69




143
T70 Pablo Larrazabal 72 71




143
T70 Phachara Khongwatman 73 70




143
T70 Damien McGrane 71 72




143
T70 Scott Jamieson 71 72




143
T70 Niclas Fasth 70 73




143
T70 Adrian Otaegui 72 71




143
T70 Gareth Paddison* 74 56




130
T70 James Morrison 71 52




123
T70 Tommy Fleetwood 73 42




115
T70 Ryan Fox 72 43




115
T70 Tae Woo Kim* 73 38




111
T70 Mikko Korhonen* 68 43




111
T70 Marcus Kinhult* 73 29




102
T85 Yuxin Lin 75 69




144
T85 S.S.P. Chawrasia 69 75




144
T85 Chao Li 74 70




144
T85 Andrew McArthur  69 75




144
T85 Alvaro Quiros 74 70




144
T85 Dean Burmester* 68 63




131
T85 Matt Ford 71 57




128
T85 Kyong-jun Moon 74 50




124
T85 Yi Cao* 72 47




119
T85 Simon Khan* 73 46




119
T85 Daniel Im 74 30




104
T85 Seve Benson* 72 27




99
T85 Da-xing Jin* 72 27




99
T98 Bjorn Akesson 73 72




145
T98 Rattanon Wannasrichan 74 71




145
T98 Yan-Wei Liu 73 72




145
T98 Miguel Tabuena 76 69




145
T98 Josh Younger 73 72




145
T98 Zi-hao Chen 72 37




109
T98 Jens Fahrbring* 74 30




104
T98 Jeev Milkha Singh* 70 34




104
T98 Dimitrios Papadatos* 72 25




97
T107   Tian Yuan 68 78




146
T107    Ricardo Gouveia* 72 54




126
T107 Wen-Yi Huang* 72 38




110
T107 Jin Zhang 71 39




110
T107 Guo-wu Zhou* 72 33




105
T107 Scott Strange* 72 33




105
T113 Kristoffer Broberg 74 73




147
T113 Xin-yang Li 73 74




147
T113 Jamie Arnold 76 71




147
T113 Lian-Wei Zhang 76 71




147
T113 Guang-Ming Yang 73 74




147
T113 Steven Jeffress 76 71




147
T113  Michael Sim 72 55




127
T113 Xin-Jun Zhang 78 49




127
T113 Nacho Elvira 77 34




111
T113 Matteo Manassero* 69 37




106
T123 Edouard Espana 73 75




148
T123 Dong-Min Lee 74 74




148
T123 Matthew Baldwin 74 74




148
T123 Anthony Wall 76 72




148
T123 Soomin Lee 78 47




125
T123 Hui Lin Zhang 74 34




108
T129 Do-hoon Kim 77 72




149
T129 Jason Norris 75 74




149
T129 Ben Evans 75 74




149
T129 Zheng Ou-yang 79 70




149
T129 Xue-wen Luo 72 77




149
T129 Xu Wang* 74 62




136
T129 Jiang-Feng Ye* 76 60




136
T129 Oliver Fisher 74 59




133
T129 Oliver Wilson 76 41




117
138 Bin Yan* 77 44




121
T139 Mu Hu 77 74




151
T139 Y.E. Yang 73 78




151
T139 Lincoln Tighe 78 73




151
T139 Wade Ormsby 72 79




151
T139 Yan Sun 78 73




151
T139 Zihan She 77 74




151
T139 Xiao-ma Chen* 76 39




115
T146 Tae Hee Lee 78 74




152
T146 Hai Meng Chao* 79 53




132
T146 Ding-gen Chen* 79 32




111
T146 Yeon-jin Jeong 79 28




107
150 Ze-yu He 78 75




153
151 Zheng-Kai Bai* 81 26




107
152 Jeung-hun Wang 78 78




156
153 Zhu Zhuang 78 79




157
154 Yongxuan Yin 86 73




159
155 Peter Uihlein* 72 WD




72
156 Jun-Won Park* 73 WD




73
157 Shao-cai He 75 WD




75
158 Dae-Hyun Kim* 78 WD




78
159 Dong Su 80 WD




80
- Victor Dubuisson - - - - - - - -
- Shaun Norris - - - - - - - -
- Brandon Stone - - - - - - - -
* player started on back nine.

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