The wind picked up on the Lake Malaren course in Shanghai and as a result scores went up with it but it was the in form Dane Lucas Bjerregaard who posted a second consecutive 66 to open up a three shot lead (-12) over Thongchai Jaidee and Sergio Garcia at these BMW Masters.
His name is pronounced Ber-guard and you may remember 3 weeks ago in Hong Kong he finished just a stroke behind winner Justin Rose and in fact I mentioned yesterday he comes here with four top tens in his last seven events.
Bjerregaard played on the Challenge Tour in 2013, making 14 cuts in 18 events. He finished 34th in the Challenge Tour rankings. He then went to QQ School and finished T-17 to earn his European Tour card for 2014 where he made 17 cuts in 26 events, including three top-10 finishes. He finished 90th in the Race to Dubai rankings and retained his card for 2015
He is only 24 and with his fine play is 55th in The Race to Dubai, remember the top 60 after this week qualifying for next week's DP World Tour Championship, Dubai and is currently 178th in the world.
He was playing with Peter Uihlein who had seven consecutive birdies from the 15th, one short of the tour record, in his 66 to sit five shots behind him at -7. Meanwhile first round leader Sergio Garcia who opened with a 64, was playing well at -11 through 7, but was in the water at 13, lost 3 shots before a birdie on the 15th got him to within three of the lead with 71 for -9 T2 with Thongchai Jaidee who had a scrambling round of -4 68.
Ian Poulter 68 who is hoping that a change to his putting grip will help end his three year wait for a European Tour title, Buyong Hun An 71 and Paul Casey 69 are all T4 at -8 while Victor Dubuisson slipped to 73 and is in a group at -6.
Watch out for Henrik Stenson 68 71 -5 who has hit 34 of 36 greens in regulation this week and is on his way to being just the 4th player in tour history to hit 80% in that category over a season. The 18th hole is playing really tough at 4.46 with only 4 birdies all day but 36 bogey's and 6 doubles.
Bryan Angus
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