Poulter wins in Hong Kong, Canucks moving on @ Q school..

Ian Poulter has won the UBS Hong Kong Open by a shot from 17 year old Italian sensation Matteo Manassero..

First here are all the Canuck scores from this second stage of Q school and congratulations to Matt Richardson, Ted Brown, Matt McQuillan, Richard Lee, David McKenzie and Chris Baryla who will all move onto the final stage.


Brooksville, Florida (19 qualify)


T30 Bryan DeCorso (Guelph) -3 71,70,72,72
T13 Matt Richardson (Woodbridge) -6 74,70,70,68 (born in England, lives in Woodbridge)
67   Cam Burke (New Hamburg) +13 73,72,74,82


Panama City,Florida (19 qualify)

T18 Ted Brown (Peterborough) E 73,74,65,72


Murrieta, California (20 qualify)

5   Richard Lee (Vancouver)-5 65,73,73,72
T3 Matt McQuillan ( Kingston) -6 70,71,71,70
WD Mitch Gillis (Williams Lake BC) +9 74,74,77
58   Ryan Yip (Calgary) +17 73,82,76,74
T12 David MacKenzie (Victoria) E 72,71,70,75 ( lives in Canada but is Australian)


McKinney, Texas (20 qualify)

T40 James Love ( Calgary) -1 72,68,75,72
T40 Peter Laws (Mississauga) -1 74,73,69,71


Seaside, California (19 qualify)

T13 Chris Baryla ( Vernon BC) -8 73,72,66,69
T55 Adam Hadwin ( Abbotsford BC) +3 71,73,73,74
T40 Brennan Webb ( Bracebridge) -1 72,74,71,70
T66 Adam Spiers ( Winnipeg) +12 74,75,75,76
T70 Kent Eger (Regina) +18 78,74,79,75

Now back to Hong Kong where Poulter won his 10 European title. I watched most of this and afterward he said he took 4 weeks off after the Ryder Cup to get rested for the Race to Dubai and is really disappointed he didn't win at least one of the 2 weeks prior to this one..

"I'll be honest, the last two weeks I've been really disappointed. Shanghai I was lying fourth with six holes to play. "

"Obviously last week, I was in the lead for a number of holes. I was in position again to win and I didn't do it  I didn't convert the putts"

He shot -3 67 to finish with a -22 total of 258.

Simon Dyson 65, England and Italy's Matteo Manassero 62, were a shot back
 
Manassero's -8 62 was just brilliant, the sky is the limit for this 17 year old and how bright a future for Italian golf with him and the Molinari's !!
 
 American Anthony Kang 65, was 4th ahead of Graeme McDowell 68,who faded a little having started the day in 2nd. Still he is now 214,222 euros behind Kaymer going into next week's finale in Dubai
 
Rory McIlroy has been second here the last 2 years at this little Hong Kong Golf Club but never really threatened Poulter who the way he is playing must be considered the favourite to win it all next week.


1 POULTER, Ian -22 18 -3 67 60 64 67 258

T2 MANASSERO, Matteo -21  -8 67 63 67 62 259
T2 DYSON, Simon -21  -5 64 65 65 65 259
4   KANG, Anthony -20  -5 67 61 67 65 260
5 MCDOWELL, Graeme -19  -2 65 65 63 68 261
6 MCILROY, Rory -18  -3 63 66 66 67 262
T7 MAYBIN, Gareth -17  -9 67 67 68 61 263
T7 DONALDSON, Jamie -17  -4 66 66 65 66 263
T7 SINGH, Jeev Milkha -17  -3 63 67 66 67 263
10 FRASER, Marcus -16  -4 68 63 67 66 264

Bryan Angus