Barclays Singapore Open

Aidric

Good field for this although the matchplay is taking from the event a little. 9 Irish players involved this week, big one for Gary Murphy. Irish scores so far:

Hoey par (3)
Lawrie par (18)
McDowell par (18)
Harrington par (5)
Murphy par (2)
McGrane +1 (3)
Lowry +2 (2)
McGinley +2 (18)
Clarke +1 (6)

Ian Poulter leads the way after a 66 with Ernie Els a shot off after a 67.

PhilipMarlowe

It seems to have resumed just recently.... presumably thunderstorm delays earlier.

Aidric

Yep, heavy rains according to RTE. There's a Thai player on +11 through four holes, must be one of the worst starts ever recorded, a quadruple at his first and a 10 at the par four thirteenth.

PhilipMarlowe

Wow! And this guy actually has a world ranking of 680!
+13 thru 5 now :eek:

Mister Sifter

Just looking at his (Somkiat SRISA-NGA) stats - he made the cut at the Ballantines, but shot 89, 87 on the weekend to finish on +33. He made 3k that week for his efforts.

He actually won a couple of titles back in 2001 by the looks of it, but has $236k since 2002.

Don't think he'll be adding to that this week!

Aidric

I'd hate to be in his group. The course seems to be playing tough, only 28 players under par so far.

PhilipMarlowe

That should suit our boy... I'm never comfortable with him when it's a birdie-fest but I like his performances in more difficult events... time will tell.
It's 7pm there now so play could be suspended again?

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Aidric wrote: »

Good field for this although the matchplay is taking from the event a little. 9 Irish players involved this week, big one for Gary Murphy. Irish scores so far:

Ian Poulter leads the way after a 66 with Ernie Els a shot off after a 67.

Huge week for Gary Murphy. I hope he makes it. He is a likeable guy.
Pity he missed the cut in Portugal. That would have done it for him.

jimjo

Fair dues to Peter Lawrie for being level par through 18, steady by Harrington and more importantly Murphy both level par through 10 & 6.

Seems a tough course after the last couple of free scoring weeks on the European tour. Harrington said something in the week that the course set up wont suit him as much as last year as the fairways are tight the pin positions are difficult to get at, saying something along the lines that he gambles a bit and feels he could be punished more. We’ll wait and see..

Mister Sifter

Aidric wrote: »

I'd hate to be in his group. The course seems to be playing tough, only 28 players under par so far.

His playing partners are level and -1 so i'd say Somkiat fells like a bit of a hacker right now!

Aidric

Licksy wrote: »

It's 7pm there now so play could be suspended again?

Yes, play has now been ended for the day.

PhilipMarlowe

Due to resume just before midnight here (7:40am local time)

Suspiria79

Poor old Somkiat retired after his 6 holes

PhilipMarlowe

After R1|Currently
Lawrie even|Yet to start R2
McDowell even|Yet to start R2
McGrane +2|even (-2 thru 11)
Clarke +2|even (-2 thru 15)
Murphy +2|even (-2 thru 11)
McGinley +2|Yet to start R2
Harrington +3|+3 (even thru 14)
Lowry +3|+4 (+1 thru 11)
Hoey +6|+7 (+1 thru 12)
I think that +2 was 70th overnight so the cut could end up there depending on conditions today... loads of players yet to start R2 and only a couple of hours daylight left today.

PhilipMarlowe

Suspiria79 wrote: »

Poor old Somkiat retired after his 6 holes

I wonder was he allowed to set foot back out or is he swimming with the sharks now...
The women's tour in America has an 88 rule

Mister Sifter

Squeeky bum time... the smurph and the tunnocks teacake are both on the cut line at +2... which is currently tied for 64th!

PhilipMarlowe

Murphy throws in 2 late bogeys and to make us sweat... f sake.
Won't be much more play there now so we have a long wait again...

Mister Sifter

Licksy wrote: »

Murphy throws in 2 late bogeys and to make us sweat... f sake.
Won't be much more play there now so we have a long wait again...

Play suspended now. Coltart has to come out tomorrow and play one hole...

Mister Sifter

Kim, Fisher, Allenby and Cabrera into the semi finals.

Wish i'd taken the tv tip last week to back Allenby for this week!!

Mister Sifter

Mister Sifter wrote: »

Play suspended now. Coltart has to come out tomorrow and play one hole...

Get in there!! He birdied it to get back to +2 overall and is now t43. Should ben enough to make the cut and, if he can knock together two decent rounds this weekend, his card.

PhilipMarlowe

+2 for the round and +1 overall you mean.... it's bad enough it being the wrong side of the world but these delays are head-wrecking too
Well done to Coltart...

PhilipMarlowe

+1 made it through
:mad:

Trampas

What now for Gary.

A lot of pressure on him to perform well in Oz as not huge prize money in the grand scheme of things.

Does Gary head home or just head straight to Oz do people think?

Poulty making a mess of the par 5. Taking unnecessary risks

The prize money for Oz masters is

PLACE
P/MONEY

$1,500,000

100,000.00 AUD =61,898.59 EUR

1 $270,000
2 $153,000
3 $101,250
4 $72,000
5 $60,000
6 $54,000
7 $48,000
8 $43,500
9 $40,500
10 $37,500
11 $33,000
12 $30,000
13 $27,000
14 $25,500
15 $24,000
16 $21,600
17 $19,500
18 $18,000
19 $16,875
20 $16,200
21 $15,600
22 $15,000
23 $14,400
24 $13,800
25 $13,200
26 $12,600
27 $12,000
28 $11,400
29 $10,800
30 $10,200
31 $9,600
32 $9,300
33 $9,000
34 $8,700
35 $8,400
36 $8,100
37 $7,800
38 $7,500
39 $7,200
40 $6,900
41 $6,600
42 $6,300
43 $6,000
44 $5,700
45 $5,400
46 $5,100
47 $4,800
48 $4,500
49 $4,200
50 $3,900
51 $3,600
52 $3,300
53 $3,000
54 $2,700
55 $2,625
56 $2,550
57 $2,475
58 $2,445
59 $2,415
60 $2,385
61 $2,355
62 $2,325
63 $2,295
64 $2,265
65 $2,235

soundsham

goes to oz I'd imagine why would he come home

Mister Sifter

Licksy wrote: »

+2 for the round and +1 overall you mean.... it's bad enough it being the wrong side of the world but these delays are head-wrecking too
Well done to Coltart...

Sorry Licksy, you were dead right!! Bad start to his third round, but hopefully he can pick up some shots tomorrow.

If Murphy can pick up a cheque he should be ok. I posted a thing a few pages back from a paper which said that Coltart should be ok at 125 with a good few names set to be taken out the running having not played enough events. Murphy is 124 just now so i take it that would make him ok too.

Aidric

This tournament has been a nightmare for players and organisers. Play suspended for the third day in a row. Murphy is making things very difficult for himself.

PhilipMarlowe

I don't think that that many will be taken out of the running though... well, not enough anyway. Coltart will pass him out... Lucquin on 126 will pick up a cheque in Singapore too.
15 Greens and 35 putts on Thursday... same old same old.

Trampas

I think he is going to the school.

Way to many putts.

35 and 32 is about 7 to many.

Only 6 1putt over the 2 days

Aidric

Terrible stats lads. In fairness the guy was given every chance with an invite this week.

jimjo

Such a pity this tournament is such a stop start affair, I was in Sentosa earlier this year, an island connected to Singapore, it’s a lovely place and the people are so friendly, unfortunately the tour has just caught the bad end of the weather there. When I was there it was humid dead heat, saying that it would have been difficult to play golf than too!!

If Peter Lawrie finishes in is current position T13 he get €53,000, not bad at all

Mister Sifter

jimjo wrote: »

Such a pity this tournament is such a stop start affair, I was in Sentosa earlier this year, an island connected to Singapore, it’s a lovely place and the people are so friendly, unfortunately the tour has just caught the bad end of the weather there. When I was there it was humid dead heat, saying that it would have been difficult to play golf than too!!

If Peter Lawrie finishes in is current position T13 he get €53,000, not bad at all

Yeh, between the weather and the time difference, it's a bit of a strange week. At least they don't have it as bad as the US though... even cancelled completely due to rain!!

jimjo

Mister Sifter wrote: »

Yeh, between the weather and the time difference, it's a bit of a strange week. At least they don't have it as bad as the US though... even cancelled completely due to rain!!

Yeah I know, and after the last few silly easy scoring tournaments when players ripped up the courses I was looking forward to this one especially so when Harrington said it was going to be tough. I’d say the officials in the European Tour must be ripping their hair out!

soundsham

poulter wins over 3 rounds(afaik) € 554,127
fisher in final of matchplay,hope he wins too as i would like to see both these guys in ryder cup team for 2010

jimjo

Poulter wins at -10, 3 late bogeys from McDowell and he finishes at T5 on -7, must be kicking himself although he sill picks up €140,000

Lawrie T24 -2 €35,500
Harrington T39 Par €22,000