Volvo China....

Here comes Coetzee....but if leopards don't change their spots he'll be making a triple within the next 6 holes

Bogey for Gracie par for Colsaerts

What bogey ??

pathetic bogey on 4...how do you miss these fairways

colsaerts in bunker but i bet he gets up and down for bird

Gracie back in autopilot mode

perhaps not

nobody really coming after grace

Nice birdie there for Grace to steady the ship

They are coming after Grace......but Grace is getting the birdies in too.....

Who is really coming after Grace ?  only players making the low scores are those that started 10 or more adrift and had no chance anyway...those on -12 or better are , as usual, going round in par or -1

nobody is coming after grace...he hasnt really had to do anything special

A gem of a pitch on the 7th for Grace

morning bristol...i am surprised these players behind are just standing still..expected it from noren after yesterdays round..always a let down

i noticed you had bello bristol..he was my 1st pick this week...not so good..only had the 2

coleslaw back in it..all over the shop again yet still in the mix

great putt after nico went in.

Morning Harry22

Have to agree with you there. I would have expected someone to apply a little pressure, but then again Noren asside there are not many proven winners in behind. Colsaerts and Grace trading birdies and stretching further ahead there.

dont think we will see any silly 62s from the chasing pack..nico hanging on...just out of interest would any of you fellas get up and watch this without any money

bet of the golfing year has walked home in indonesia

HARRY - I always have money on it so I always get up! This tournament was a shocker for me last year with Colsaerts running away with it. Hoping Grace hangs on for a bit of revenge.

Yes pre tournament I backed RCB, Grace, Finch, Mikha Singh, Lara and McGrane. Added Siem, Coetzee, Willet and Dubussion in play. So 10 players in total.

i had hanson down as the winner pre tournament but couldnt pull the trigger at that price...not quite as bad a price as poulter

Yes agree with you Harry22. On reflection Westwood at around 6/4 was massive - but only if you play in hundreds and thousands. Not for my relatively small stakes

9/4 bristol

Apr 22, 2012 -- 7:17AM, HARRY22 wrote:

dont think we will see any silly 62s from the chasing pack..nico hanging on...just out of interest would any of you fellas get up and watch this without any money

You must be joking......

WW was 2/1 pre tourney wasn't he? Still never for me at that price, no interest in backing such short prices in large fields.

placed my bet on lee and 2 minutes later it was 2/1...doubled him with djokovic also..dont blow the lead westy

i used to back tiger in his prime at 6/4 in world class fields..i thought westwood was well worth a bet in this weak field...

Well 9/4 is even better - but I still would not have backed him from a risk reward perspective.

Might be worth a bet to retain his title at Ballantines though.

jaidee and ben fox were his nearest challengers in the market ffs...i will be honest i didnt have a  clue who ben fox was..still dont

£400 on lee and a £200 double with djokovic

and a £200 treble with grace

Westwood playing in a micky mouse event to gain some cheap points to boost his ranking is a disgrace....he need to man up and start beating quality field...

i was very surprised he was playing...i have no idea but he must be receiving a nice fee for just turning up surely?

great chip btw

All about the money - im sure Chubby was behind it.

Lovely chip from Grace on 9

colsaerts back in it

He played in it last year and became number ''one'' in the world....cough cough

who else is in the field next week? any top players or is westwood taking on koreans only lol

I must say  that the fairways here are 3 times wider than my local club......

Look at this hole they are on now...pointless hole..they should just walk up the fairway and place the ball

cant reach in one and you cant really get in trouble off the tee

noren to put a run together now

Is this the most boring course on tour ever ?
  Wide fairways, no rough and huge greens ! It seems they have shortened most of the holes as well !!

yes eddie by far

is hanson playing next week? matter of time imo before he wins

horrible colour of sands in the bunker......are my eyes deceiving me.....grey urrggghhhh

do they not have trees in china ...i suggest they put some fake ones up on this course to punish any shots that dont find these airfields

Eddie I thought the same about the course they used for this event last year. This one may be even worse though.

aggressive stroke

first bogey on a par 4 this week i believe...he was due one..he has not played well

Last year at least there were a few holes were erratic tee shots could get punished.

Did Garrido just putt the ball in the hole and walked away and left the caddie to pick the ball up ?

blimey just flicked the indonesian on...never seen a korean so big

ski wiz he has done this for the last 9 holes..injury or so they tell us...wouldnt think so

He did on the hole where he made a bogey. Not sure if he were angry or maybe having a back problem ?

lol colsaerts the big girl goes with an iron

Colsearts taking an iron off the tee there - very strange. Does he want to win this?

Will be a tricky up and down for grace over that slope.

Dont think he wants to win this playing so negative

hell of a chip

Could be game over

these SA players seem to be clutch

lol nico gutted for you

garrido misses a sitter also...

ouch that was a push from grace..never give it a chance to take the left to right

Yes poor putt - but better Par than bogie

just needs to match nico on this par 5

Have you backed anyone in the Valero Texas Open Harry22?

backed palmer on thursday...almost went in on curtis at 10/1 friday but backed off..big error now..still not sure he will get it done..how about you? Kuchar could get some momentum early but curtis needs to shoot over par for him to win

who can get up and down now

usually take a handfull of players in each tournament but this week wasnt very inspiring..nothing stuck out so i thought i would steal your tip lol

this birdie feast not up molinaris street...playing well though recently

should really just go to bed now...even if he loses from here it wont make much difference ..wd bristol on the win

I backed outsiders pre-tournament along with Tringale, Palmer and Chalmers. Managed to get £27 on Curtis at 18/1 during round 2 so if he holds on I will make a couple of hundred profit. Be nice to see Chalmers make a charge though - much in the same way as he did in Australia before xmas.

Come on Branden !

And finally my red on colsearts had turned to green

bloody chinese and technology...use the silent mode ffs

these SA players serving me well the last 2 weeks

got a little twitchy early in round..held nerve and kept my green until 1.1..greedy but paid off this time

Agree about the South Africans - I guess they are tuned to playing well and peaking during there summer months so maybe thats why they have all played so well in the past few months

arghhhh

why does this luiten get so much respect in these weak fields?

will this win put him ahead of rory in win on the european tour?

just needs a major now

Im not really sure - but how many players win 3 times in a season? And it's still only April !

precisely...hell of an effort from grace.  Lee westwood just needs to stay awake now

It will be interesting to see how he is priced up for other tournaments from here on in, especially now he has won (fingers crossed) outside of South Africa.

Sorry but you got to be ten times more of a plonker than Rodney Trotter to lose with a 4 shot lead on this course

Where did that go

I agree Ski-Wiz but then again I was on Dufner when he lost a 5 stroke lead with as many holes to play at the PGA last year. Never count your chickens !

this course is even more boring than st andrews on a calm day (at least it's got the road hole).

With this Win - Grace now has as many wins on the European Tour as Rory McIlroy

glad i layed at 1/100 on westwood he is falling asleep out there

choke of the century if westwood blows this

FFS, they hit the greens even from the water hazards.
  I certainly hope we wont see this course being used again !

off to bed for a few hours sleep.......nothing more to do till tonight.

Well done to all Grace backers !

WD doug

3 victories on the Europeantour now for Branden and neither in Europe

Chasing pack were pathetic tbh..very poor effort

I don't know who's responsible for choosing the venues for The China Open but any chance they could maybe try and book a golf course for next years event?That's 2 years in a row they've served up shockers.I'm sure with bets riding on it Grace and Colsaerts backers probably had their attention held but even though i was on Dubuisson each way i ended up switching it over for a while as it was so mundane.They reckon over the next few years there will be even more tour events played in China but here's hoping that's not the case.Just a thought,do they hand you a camcorder and mobile phone at the turnstiles as you enter tour events in China?The caddies must hate going there.Well done to the Grace backers though,i just couldn't see him making it 3 wins in a year but he done it in style.Amazing that he had to go to tour school to get his card due to not not finishing high enough up the rankings in last years Challenge Tour even though he played pretty much a full schedule on it.