Otaegui collapse hands Weisberger Volvo China Open..Cockerill T45....Final results

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54 hole leader Emirati Adrian Otaegui had a 3 shot lead at the turn today at this Volvo China Open.

However a heartbreaking back nine 39 with a bogey, par double bogey finish 71 -16  let the title slip away to Austrian Bernd Weisberger who was parring his way in to a bogey free with a 67 -19 total.

****** Canadian Aaron Cockerill finished T45 66 74 71 71 -2 which moves him up 10 places in the Race to Dubai from #136 to #126. Worth nearly $19,000 cdn.

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Final EDIT >>>>> 2026/04/25

Bernd Wiesberger produced a stirring performance on the final back nine to claim his first DP World Tour title in five years at the 2026 Volvo China Open.

The Austrian had been a picture of consistency this week at Shanghai Enhance Anting Golf Club and trailed Adrian Otaegui by one shot heading into Sunday's final round.

It soon became a two-way tussle for the title as the final group surged clear of the field, however, Otaegui reached the turn with a three-shot lead at -19.

A scoring burst of three birdies in four holes saw Wiesberger reel in Otaegui before taking the outright lead at the 16th when Otaegui made his second bogey in five holes.

Emirati got in trouble again down the last with a double bogey to finish at -16 and Wiesberger played conservatively to seal his ninth DP World Tour title by three shots at -19 

"It's been a tough couple of years," an emotional Wiesberger said. "An unbelievable week. I played my heart out today, it wasn't pretty at times but I got it done.

Adrian is a great competitor and had it under control, but something happened on that tenth hole that I can't explain. After getting out of position at the par-five tenth, the Austrian produced a stunning chip-in for an unlikely birdie and gained some momentum.That's how golf goes sometimes.

"I'm super proud of sticking through hard times on the golf course lately, but this is for everyone at home and couldn't be happier.

"Everyone is watching and super excited now, and it changes my next couple of years a little bit. It gets me into the Rolex Series events again and that's huge."

Sweden's Mikael Lindberg fired a final-round 67 to clinch solo third at -14, with South African Shaun Norris one shot further back -13 in fourth.

German Freddy Schott carded the lowest round of Sunday with a 64 to take fifth at -12. France's Tom Vaillant and Englishman shared sixth at -11 under and defending champion Ashun Wu led Alejandro Del Rey, Darius van Driel, Antoine Rozner and Anthony Quayle one shot further back at -10

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Historic Sunday ahead for the Fitzpatrick's at Zurich Classic.. Live scoreboard / TEE TIMES

      PGA Tour Zurich Classic of New Orleans Tee Times Leaderboard

First let's look at the incredible run world #3, Matthew Fitzpatrick is on, after he and his brother with Mother and Father and family all in attendance torched the Harbour Town Golf Links like never before !

They set a tournament record, 57 strokes to play 18 holes in Fourballs on Saturday as they lead this field by 4 shots at -30 over 54 holes.

Matt Fitzpatrick 2026

March 15  2nd Players Championship $2,725,000

March 22  1st Valspar Championship  $1,638,000

April 12    T18 Masters   $315,000

April 19    1st RBC Classic  $3,600,000

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****Also worth noting this year he was 9th WM Phoenix Open, T14 Pebble Beach and T24 at Riviera Genesis Invitational

April 26  1st Zurich Insurance after 54 holes

A recent AP story described him as "arguably" the hottest player in golf.

There is no arguably about it. A win today after Foursomes also has the caveat that his younger brother Alex will move from Sheffield in South Yorkshire to live with his brother in Florida to begin his 2 year exemption on this PGA Tour.

Canadians 

T10 AJ Ewart, Casey Jarvis 64 69 61 -22

T23 Adam Hadwin, Adam Svensson  63, 68 66 -19

33rd  Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Ryan Gerard  65 69 67 -15

WEATHER

There is nothing threatening in the New Orleans weather today. Partly sunny 29*c light winds S 11km/h

Bryan Angus

Emirati, Adrian Otaegui 62 leads, Cockerill T49, Volvo China Open...54 hole results, SUNDAY Tee Times

 

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After 54 holes on this Anting GC just north of Shanghai nobody is playing it better than the native of the UAE, 33 year old Adrian Otaegui, a rank and file veteran of the DP World Tour with 5 wins, ranked #303 in the world, but #33 in the Race to Dubai.

Consider this, in rounds of 66 69 62 -16 he has 20 birdies, 1 eagle, only 4 bogey's and a double, all the rest 28 pars for the clubhouse lead in round 3.

Bernd Weisberger 2nd, 64 66 68 -15 and Shaun Norris 3rd, 63 67 71 -12 are shaping up to make this a three horse race with Sunday to decide the winner.

At the other end of the field, Aaron Cockerill, buoyed by a opening 66 just hung on to make the trip from his family home in Dubai worthwhile with a Friday 74 to make the cut on the number at -2

This morning he was steady Eddie with 14 pars, 2 birdies, 2 bogey's for E 71 T47.

Aaron is currently #475 in the world, #136 in the Race to Dubai and with the trip to Turkey next week, then one more in Barcelona, the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship before the break for the PGA Championship at Aronimink GC in Philadelphia, he will be looking to get back inside the top 100.

Bryan Angus

FINAL EDIT...730am EST 25/04/26 >>>>>

Adrian Otaegui produced a stunning 62 to surge into a one-shot lead at the 2026 Volvo China Open.

The Emirati began the day five shots adrift of overnight leaders Bernd Wiesberger and Shaun Norris, but he lurked ominously thanks to an eagle, four birdies and a bogey on his front nine to sit three off the pace.

Wiesberger was the one in front, however, his scoring stalled on the back nine and Otaegui reeled in the Austrian with four birdies to set the clubhouse target of -16.

A bogey at the 15th meant Wiesberger finished his third round one adrift at -15, with Norris a further three shots back at -12.

"It's been a very nice day. You know, bit of everything," Otaegui said. "Started very nicely with a very good birdie on the first.

"Then a beautiful hole out on hole number four for eagle, and then just played very well on the front nine, finished the front nine with three birdies for -5. And then I just kept going, made some very nice birdies on 10 and 11, both three footers.

"Then a very nice chip-in on 16. And 17, 18 were a bit of a fight, but I managed to save a very nice par on 17, which almost felt like a birdie. It was a very, very positive day."

First-round leader Alejandro Del Rey 70, is one back at -11 4th, while Frenchman Antoine Rozner and Sweden's Mikael Lindberg both signed for 65 to reach -10

Italian Guido Migliozzi 66, is one adrift in 7th -9 and home pair Zihao Jin 71, and Bo Peng 68 are alongside Spain's Angel Ayora 70, American Davis Bryant 66 and Englishman Nathan Kimsey 67 at -8

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The Fitzpatricks surge into contention, Canadians T11, at Zurich Classic... 36 hole results, Saturday TEE TIMES

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When the early wave finished their 2nd rounds, the pre tournament favourites Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick, lived up to their billing following an opening Fourball session -8 64 with the more difficult Foursome's -7 65 for -15 to surge into contention 2nd place.

The 36 hole leaders are Americans, Alex Smalley/ Hayden Springer 58 70 -16, both looking for their maiden wins.

Joining the Fitzpatrick's T2 -15 are Davis Thompson/ Austin Eckroat 59 70, and Tom Hoge/ Billy Horschel 61,68

The cut fell at -10

 Canadian scores..

Adam Svensson/ Adam Hadwin T11  63 68 -13

AJ Ewart/ Casey Jarvis T16  64 69  -11

Sudarshan Yellamaraju / Ryan Gerard T26  65 69 -10

Taylor Pendrith/Mac Hughes T13  62 74  MC

Ben Silverman/ Cameron Champ T30  64 78  MC

****  Saturday the field will return to lower scoring Fourball matches, and wrap up the week with Foursomes on Sunday.

Bryan Angus

Pendrith/ Hughes lead Canadian scores at Zurich Classic...Friday TEE TIMES, Live scoring.

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After 18 holes of fourballs the leaders at this years Zurich Classic in New Orleans are relatively unknown Americans Alex Smalley and Hayden Springer who matched the tournament record 58 -14. Both would welcome their first PGA Tour win....

The Fitzy's Matt and younger brother Alex shot 64 -7 T30 six shots off the lead.

Shane Lowry carried Brooks Keopka most of the day to T50 -6 66 and are flirting with the cut as the field plays Foursomes today before switching back to Fourballs on Saturday.

Canadians

Taylor Pendrith/Mac Hughes T13 62 -10

Adam Svensson/ Adam Hadwin T16 63 -9

Ben Silverman/ Cameron Champ T30 64 -8

AJ Ewart/ Casey Jarvis T30 64 -8

Sudarshan Yellamaraju / Ryan Gerard T42 65 -7

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Norris/Weisberger share lead, Cockerill flirts with cut in China... 36 hole results, Saturday TEE TIMES

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After a 2 birdie, 2 bogey front nine E 35 Aaron Cockerill who began the day -5 after an opening 66 slipped up with 3 bogeys, all the rest pars coming in for +3 74, which is the bad news, however the cut fell -2 and he is right on that number after 36 holes.

WEATHER  relatively calm. cool at 17*c with little wind and is forecast to stay that way all weekend.

The co leaders are veteran South African Shaun Norris 63 67 -12 and Austrian Bernd Weisberger 64 66 -12, and the field iis bunched right behind them..

Weisberger was an early defector to LIV in 2022-23 but struggled there for 2 seasons, with only one top 10 and returned to DP World Tour in 2024 after paying $1. million in fines.

FINAL EDIT>>>>645am EST

Shaun Norris and Bernd Wiesberger will share the lead heading into the weekend at the Volvo China Open but will have a pair of home heroes chasing them down at Enhance Anting Golf Club.

While very low scoring was the order of the day in round one after recent rain, day two proved a much tougher test as sunshine and breeze firmed up the layout in Shanghai.

South African Norris was bogey-free and on track to take the solo lead into the last 36 holes but a first bogey of the week on the last dropped him back to -12 as he signed for a 67.

That left him alongside Austrian Wiesberger, who rode the momentum of a birdie-birdie-birdie start to a 66 as he goes in search of a second win in China.

Teenage star Yanhan Zhou thrilled the home crowds on day one with a 61 and he followed that with a 69 to sit one back at -11 alongside fellow Chinese Bowen Chai, who carded a 66.

First-round leader Alejandro del Rey was then at -10 after a second round 71, one shot clear of Australian Kuangyu Chen, Frenchman Tom Vaillant and Dutchman Darius van Driel.

“It’s been pretty solid all day long bar a little blunder on the last hole,” Norris said. I can’t be more pleased with the way I’m playing the game at the moment and managing my game at the moment.

I’m sort of hitting the ball in the right spots, missing it in the right spots and giving myself a lot of good chances so I’m happy with where I’m at at the moment, especially after a long break".

Wiesberger – a winner in China at the 2017 Shenzhen International – spoke after round one of his mission to rediscover the form that brought him eight DP World Tour titles between 2012 and 2021, including two Rolex Series triumphs.

“I didn’t play as well as I did yesterday with my long game so it was nice to actually get a round in that low because I didn’t feel quite as good as I did yesterday,” he said.

“But sometimes you get over those days and get a good score out of it and I did today.”

Spaniard Del Rey made two birdies and two bogeys in his level par effort, while Vaillant and Van Driel both carded rounds of 65 and Chen signed for a 67.

Australian Anthony Quayle matched the low round of the day with a 64 to sit at -8 alongside Chinese Zihao Jin, Japan’s Kota Kaneko and Portuguese Daniel Rodrigues.

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Aaron Cockerill opens T6, del Rey leads at soggy Volvo China Open.. Live scoreboard 18 hole results..

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Players and officials were quite concerned for the par 71, Anting GC, arriving in Shanghai, China, some 12 hours ahead of EST (It is 6am Thursday April 23rd, here in Toronto, 6pm in Shanghai) in a torrential rain which continued on and off through early Wednesday.

However it drained well, they managed to play the pro-am, and overcast relatively calm conditions met the field this morning on a very soft course, which hs been yielding low scoring.

*** The clubhouse leader is veteran Spaniard Alejandro del Rey with -10 61, followed by Chinese Yanhan Zhou 2nd -9 62 , then South African Shaun Norris 3rd -8 63.

Canada's Aaron Cockerill has a lot of crooked numbers playing the course backwards, out 4 birdies, 2 bogey's -2 34, back in 4 birdies, 1 bogey -3 32 for -5 66 T6.  

Bryan Angus

EDIT >>>>> 7.20am EST

Alejandro del Rey carded a stunning 61 to edge ahead of teenage sensation Yanhan Zhou and open up a one-shot lead after day one of the Volvo China Open.

Zhou, who only turned 18 earlier this month, thrilled the home crowds as he got to -9 through 12 holes and, showing a composure beyond his years, looked certain to take the first-round lead at Enhance Anting Golf Club.

But as he parred his final six holes to card a bogey-free 62, Del Rey matched his front-nine 29 after starting on the tenth to storm to -10 with 61 to lead the way.

With no shortage of rain in the build-up and preferred lies in place, it was a low scoring day in Shanghai, with South African Shaun Norris 3rd at -8 63, one clear of Austrian Bernd Wiesberger 4th -7 64.

Home favourite Bowen Chai was then 5th at -6 and will return to complete his final hole on Friday as one of six players who were still on course when darkness brought play to an end.

Australian Kuangyu Chen holed out for a spectacular eagle on the par-four seventh and he was at T6 -5 alongside 2024 champion Adrian Otaegui, Canadian Aaron Cockerill and England's Andrew Johnston.

“It was great,” del Rey said. “I definitely didn’t see it coming at the beginning of the round, it’s a tough course and you have to play and I guess we got a little bit lucky with the rain yesterday, it helped.

“It was a very nice round, everything felt like it was flowing pretty nicely and I had one of those low ones come out.”

Zhou the home favourite put on a masterclass in his first 12 holes.

He already has 11 wins on the China Tour, with seven of those coming last season as he romped to the Order of Merit title as a 17-year-old, and is clearly comfortable on home soil after also finishing third at last month’s Hainan Classic.

“I’m feeling great,” he said. “Seven birdies and an eagle, I just feel ‘oh my God! There are so many people have come here to watch me and support me so I’m very happy to get a good start.  My dad is my caddy and he supports me a lot and I love to play games with my family and friends, it’s incredible.”

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