Donald, Manassero & Quiros share the halfway lead at Wentworth

On a day when the entire field except Rory McIlroy got the memo about wearing Navy Blue in honour of Seve, and players including Ian Poulter had a go at Ernie's toughened up re-design of Wentworth, there is a 3 way tie at the top of a tightly packed leaderboard, and I hope we get to see it on the Golf Channel, because for some reason, it must have something to do with satellite time slots, they keep leaving play on progress at noon, est, and they then go to fill for the next 2 hours, not even live, which I suggest to you shows just where on their schedule of importance the BMW PGA lies.

Alvaro Quiros 67, finished with 3 birdies (16,17,18) to catch Luke 72, and moments later they were joined by 18 year old Italian sensation Matteo Manassero (Manny) 70,when he birdied the 18th.

With players rolling big numbers, Justin Rose 9 on the 17th, Korean teenager Seung-yul NOH 11 on the 18th for example, Luke Donald's 64 yesterday is looking more and more special, because this course is very long and tough. Tees were put back and some stiff pin placements kept scoring in check all day

I haven't seen this many 3 woods and utility clubs into par 4's since the 70's !!

The cut fell at +5.for the full leaderboard click on European Tour on the right side of this post.


T1 DONALD, Luke -6 18 +1 64 72 - - 136

T1 QUIROS, Alvaro -6 18 -4 69 67 - - 136
T1 MANASSERO, Matteo -6 18 -1 66 70 - - 136

T4 LARA, José Manuel -4 18 -1 68 70 - - 138
T4 HORSEY, David -4 18 -3 70 68 - - 138
T4 AIKEN, Thomas -4 18 -4 71 67 - - 138
7 DYSON, Simon -3 18 -3 71 68 - - 139
T8 JAMIESON, Scott -2 18 -2 71 69 - - 140
T8 AGUILAR, Felipe -2 18 -1 70 70 - - 140
T8 WHITEFORD, Peter -2 18 -2 71 69 - - 140
T8 LEVET, Thomas -2 16 Par 69 - - - 69
T8 ZANOTTI, Fabrizio -2 12 -2 71 - - - 71
T13 HANSEN, Anders -1 18 +1 69 72 - - 141
T13 OTTO, Hennie -1 18 Par 70 71 - - 141
T13 VELASCO, Alvaro -1 18 -1 71 70 - - 141
T13 WESTWOOD, Lee -1 18 -2 72 69 - - 141
T13 CLARKE, Darren -1 18 +1 69 72 - - 141
T13 YANG, Y. E. -1 18 -1 71 70 - - 141

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