Francesco Molinari last competed in China a year ago when he and his brother won the World Cup.
Now he is leading the WGC - HSBC Champions after a brilliant -7 65 at Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai which included 4 birdies in a row on his back nine 3-6..
They were on TV at midnight which is noon in that part of China and were playing in perfect conditions.
Lee Westwood , your new World #1 continued his rock solid play to lie just one shot behind Molinari -6, 66
Westwood ended Tiger Woods' five-year reign at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking without playing since the Ryder Cup and without winning a major which has led to comments by Butch Harmon to the effect that the world rankings should calculated over a shorter period ( 1 year as opposed to 2) and that if in fact they were Martin Kaymer would be #1 and quite likely Tiger would not be in the T50..
Sweden's Henrik Stenson shot a five under 67 for a share of third, alongside Korea's Noh Seung-yul and Japan's Yuta Ikeda.
Woods, Phil Mickelson and Martin Kaymer can all get to the #1 spot this week.
Woods shot a -4 68 (out in 32) which left him tied with Luke Donald and Spain's Pablo Martin for sixth, while Mickelson is only one behind at -3
Kaymer who leads the Race to Dubai shot E,72, and his closest challenger , last week's winner in Spain Graeme McDowell is at +2 74.
Leaderboard for the top 10
1 MOLINARI, Francesco* -7 18 -7 65 - - - 65
2 WESTWOOD, Lee* -6 18 -6 66 - - - 66
T3 IKEDA, Yuta* -5 18 -5 67 - - - 67
T3 STENSON, Henrik* -5 18 -5 67 - - - 67
T3 NOH, Seung-yul* -5 18 -5 67 - - - 67
T6 MARTIN, Pablo -4 18 -4 68 - - - 68
T6 WOODS, Tiger* -4 18 -4 68 - - - 68
T6 DONALD, Luke* -4 18 -4 68 - - - 68
T9 RAMSAY, Richie -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 OOSTHUIZEN, Louis* -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 MIYAMOTO, Katsumasa -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 PALMER, Ryan -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 MICKELSON, Phil* -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 YANG, Y. E.* -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 ANDERSSON HED, Fredrik -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 SCOTT, Adam* -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
T9 FISHER, Ross* -3 18 -3 69 - - - 69
Round 2 tee times and we are 12 hours behind EST (8am Shanghai is 8pm here..) the first number indicates which tee they start on
1 08:45 STENSON Henrik QUIROS Alvaro FOWLER Rickie
1 08:55 HANSON Peter SCOTT Adam NOH Seung-yul
1 09:05 KARLSSON Robert FUJITA Hiroyuki SCHWARTZEL Charl
1 09:15 CRANE Ben KIM Kyung-tae MOLINARI Francesco
1 09:25 CHOI K J VILLEGAS Camilo FISHER Ross
1 09:35 JIMÉNEZ Miguel Angel CLARK Tim DONALD Luke
1 09:45 ALLENBY Robert MOLINARI Edoardo KIM Anthony
1 09:55 OOSTHUIZEN Louis HARRINGTON Padraig IKEDA Yuta
1 10:05 GOOSEN Retief LIANG Wen-chong MCILROY Rory
1 10:15 WATNEY Nick POULTER Ian ISHIKAWA Ryo
1 10:25 ELS Ernie WOODS Tiger MCDOWELL Graeme
1 10:35 KAYMER Martin MAHAN Hunter CASEY Paul
1 10:45 YANG Y. E. MICKELSON Phil WESTWOOD Lee
10 08:50 MARUYAMA Shigeki HANSEN Anders SLOCUM Heath
10 09:00 LI Chao HAAS Bill ANDERSSON HED Fredrik
10 09:10 JOHNSON Richard S PRESNELL Alistair JUNHASAVASDIKUL Pariya
10 09:20 HIRATSUKA Tetsuji DAVIES Rhys ATWAL Arjun
10 09:30 VAN ZYL Jaco YUAN Hao SONODA Shunsuke
10 09:40 WILLETT Danny BOURDY Grégory MAMAT Mardan
10 09:50 JONES Brendan WU Kang-chun HORSEY David
10 10:00 BOHN Jason RAMSAY Richie DODT Andrew
10 10:10 LUNDE Bill FICHARDT Darren WIRATCHANT Thaworn
10 10:20 MARTIN Pablo FRASER Marcus APHIBARNRAT Kiradech
10 10:30 MIYAMOTO Katsumasa PETTERSSON Carl SIM Michael
10 10:40 MATSUMURA Michio KHAN Simon GREEN Richard
10 10:50 APPLEBY Stuart MANASSERO Matteo PALMER Ryan
Current Race to Dubai rankings
1 KAYMER Martin GER 19 €3,167,447
2 MCDOWELL Graeme NIR 20 €2,638,866
3 WESTWOOD Lee ENG 12 €1,878,307
4 SCHWARTZEL Charl RSA 20 €1,817,803
5 ELS Ernie RSA 13 €1,807,313
6 JIMÉNEZ Miguel Angel ESP 25 €1,775,001
7 MOLINARI Edoardo ITA 26 €1,754,398
8 OOSTHUIZEN Louis RSA 21 €1,747,726
9 POULTER Ian ENG 11 €1,478,118
10 CASEY Paul ENG 12 €1,438,864
11 MOLINARI Francesco ITA 24 €1,341,460
Bryan Angus bryanangus4@gmail.com
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