Graeme McDowell leads the HSBC Champions in Shanghai by 2 strokes after opening with -5 67 at this WGC event. Six others led by Rickie Fowler, Martin Kaymer and Brandt Snedeker are 2nd at -3 69. On a windy day only 27 players of the 78 man field broke par in the 10th year of this event, the rough is really thick and the fairways are narrow and McDowell drove it well all day, at one point through 12 holes he was -7.
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40 0f the world's top 50 are in the field on the Sheshan International GC, it's the 2nd week in a row for golf in Shanghai and I must say after watching a lot of it overnight the crowds were very sparse by pro standards for the opening round.
Ken Schofield. the Euro Tour's commish prior to the departing George O'Grady has been travelling to China for many years and he explained that while golf is expanding rapidly it is still in it's infancy in this huge country and is very expensive to play. He feels they need many more municipal courses and driving ranges to get the masses more involved. Chinese golf fans were shocked last week when they learned Xin-Jun Zhang the leading money winner on the PGA Tour China has been suspended six months by the China Golf Association for signing incorrect scorecards.
He was leading that tour with 650,600 yuan ($105,863), with the top five in money earnings slated to earn exempt status on the 2015 Web.com Tour.
The China Golf Association said that at the Lanhai Open in June and the Cadillac Championship in September, Zhang was disqualified for signing for the wrong scores, "which have been verified by multiple sources. Such behavior has seriously violated the basic rules of the game of golf, which has brought severe negative publicity.''
Zhang is listed as having been disqualified in each event's official scoring.
With 3 bogey's 2 doubles and a triple in a front 9 of 45, Graham DeLaet had to WD again with that bulging disc in his neck and I hope he can get himself back home to get proper treatment, just shut it down. I have tried to contact him and will report back asap.
Jason Dufner had a red face in the 18th fairway after picking up his ball to clean and place it, like he had been doing all last week in Malaysia...The one stroke penalty left him at E 72.
Bryan Angus
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