I was up most of the night watching the fireworks that are taking place at the UBS Hong Kong Open.
It's not often you see a guy upset after shooting 60 to lead an event, but Ian Poulter was !! He lipped out on the 6th and just grazed the cup with a birdie putt on 17, and apart from a loose drive into the rough on 16, where he recovered to make par, he put on an absolute clinic on this tight little par 70 Hong Kong GC.
Dressed nattily as ever in a navy blue shirt and matching blue and burnt orange plaid pants and shoes, Poulter looked like he would end the day in second as Rory McIlroy had the lead standing on the 18th tee. He took a long iron for safety and found a fairway trap, then tried to go for the green from 175, hit it fat into the pond and ended up with a double bogey 6. Earlier he made an albatross on 9 when he holed out from 170 yards.
Look at the scores Poulter 60, American Anthony Kang 61, Simon Dyson 65 playing with John Daly, 17 year old Matteo Manassero 63, Anders Hansen 64, Graeme McDowell 65, Marcus Fraser 63 ...
You have to go down to the 85th player in the field to find a stroke average of E,70. Poulter used only 24 putts, hit 10/14 fairways and was 2/2 in scrambling and 3/3 in sand saves...
Ideal scoring conditions and rain earlier in the week have made the course defenceless, much like our St Georges was for the Canadian Open earlier this year..
1 POULTER, Ian -13 18 -10 67 60 - - 127
2 KANG, Anthony -12 18 -9 67 61 - - 128
T3 DYSON, Simon -11 18 -5 64 65 - - 129
T3 MCILROY, Rory -11 18 -4 63 66 - - 129
T5 MANASSERO, Matteo* -10 18 -7 67 63 - - 130
T5 SINGH, Jeev Milkha* -10 18 -3 63 67 - - 130
T5 HANSEN, Anders* -10 18 -6 66 64 - - 130
T5 MCDOWELL, Graeme -10 18 -5 65 65 - - 130
T5 JAIDEE, Thongchai -10 18 -6 66 64 - - 130
T10 BROWN, Mark -9 18 -1 62 69 - - 131
T10 HANSEN, Søren* -9 18 -3 64 67 - - 131
T10 FERRIE, Kenneth -9 18 -4 65 66 - - 131
T10 FRASER, Marcus -9 18 -7 68 63 - - 131
T10 ZANOTTI, Fabrizio* -9 18 -6 67 64 - - 131
Bryan Angus
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