Euro Tour Portugal Masters (Colsaerts near 59)

[Crim]

Play has been stopped today but mostly everyone got their round in.

Nicolas Colsaerts flirted with 59 (would have been a European Tour first).

Watch how close he got here.

http://www.europeantour.com/videoaudio/video/videoid=238394.html

Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley shot a respectable 4 under.

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Derksen seven holes left to play... Last couple of months Colsaerts is starting to play well again. Very impressive today.

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Tournament reduced to 54 holes. Levy after a -10 in second round at 1.

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Tournament ended after 36 holes, Levy pronounced winner. What a joke...

[cubdog]

Tournament ended after 36 holes, Levy pronounced winner. What a joke...

Why a joke? What did you expect them to do? Certainly not what anyone wanted to see happen but with the travel involved with the European Tour officials don't always have a lot a flexibility. I'd rather just say well done to Levy. He played two great rounds.

cubdog

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I call it a joke because halve of the field played in round 3 allready (Derksen more then nine holes for example). They should af least tried to finish round three tomorrow.

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Derksen was -4 in round three, but that score got erased.

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Derksen is a bit frustrated (he was actually on -5 for the day and at T13; because the erased the scores he was back to T47).

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Because of bad weather and a watery course the Portugal Masters were shortenend to 36 holes. That lead to big frustration from Derksen.

The man from Nijmegen started the last day of the already to 54 holes shortenend Portugal Masters at T47. After thirteen holes Derksen was -5 for the round and -9 for the tournament.

"I scored one shot better than how it was shown on the website of the European Tour. So I was at T13. Who knows what was possible on those last holes. And in this stage of the season it all counts big time."

No possbile top-10 for Derksen, but a T47. And because the tournament went down to 36 holes, the purse only counts for 75% in the rankings.

"I have no idea where I will be now in the Order of Merit" said a pretty upset Derksen right after the European Tour decided to also strike day 3 and consider the standings after 36 holes as final.

"Next week I'll play in Hong Kong and it might be my last tournament ever. With a good result here in Portugal I would be pretty much centrain of the BMW Masters in Shanghai and possibly the tournament in Turkey as well. Now all that is quite uncertain."

Despite the bad weather of the last couple of days, the tournament director Zamora didn't decide to start early ánd not to start from two tees.

"And that's why the tournament couldn't be finished. The course already was very wet, so after one heavy rain again it meant we couldn't play anymore. But Zamora told me and a couple of other players that the weatherman of the European Tour didn't expect this kind of rain anymore. And that surprised me, because the expectations I saw on internet told me something different"

"Starting from two tees and earlier on the tournament could have been finished. This is very inconfenient also for the guys who are struggling to get their Tour Card"

[cubdog]

That really does suck for those needing money and ranking points. I was trying to look at the positive but as we all know they are always two sides, at least, to every story.

cubdog

[iacas]

That really does suck for those needing money and ranking points. I was trying to look at the positive but as we all know they are always two sides, at least, to every story.

Indeed. If Derksen had been leading, he wouldn't be complaining.

[Silent]

True. Doesn't change that getting your score of that dat being erased is very frustrating. If everybody played two rounds it's better understandable. I would be quite angry as well in his position, especially if the organisation failed to anticipate on the forecast.