Leaney returns to defend German Masters title

IN: News | European PGA | Linde German Masters (2003) | Preview | by Bruce Young | 17 Sep 2003

Stephen Leaney returns to Cologne this week as the defending champion of the Linde German Masters although he is now considerably higher in the rankings than he was leading into this event last year. In fact at this stage twelve months ago his world ranking was 124th, one week later he had moved to 61st. Following his second placing at the US Open this year, he had moved to 22nd and although now 40th, his status in world golf is considerably different than before this event last year.

Leaney's form since the US Open has not been somewhat lacklustre but he is now a member of the President's Cup Team and will no doubt be looking for this event to provide a boost to his game to get back on track.

The Linde German Masters is once again being staged at the Jack Nicklaus designed Gut Larchenhof Golf Club and, as is always the case in this event, it has attracted a top European Tour field including tournament promotor, Bernhard Langer.

Retief Goosen, Darren Clarke, Colin Montgomerie, Paul Casey, Adam Scott, Padraig Harrington, Michael Campbell, Lee Westwood, Nick Faldo and Langer himself will all line up.

Australasians are Scott, Peter O'Malley, Marcus Fraser, Brett Rumford, Jarrod Moseley, Richard Green, Peter Fowler, Greg Turner and Nick O'Hern.

The event carries a purse of 3 million euros with 500,000 of those going to the winner.

Position	Score	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	-26	K.J. Choi	63	68	64	67	262
2	-24	Miguel Angel Jiménez	67	62	67	68	264
T3	-23	Ian Poulter	65	63	69	68	265
T3	-23	Niclas Fasth	68	67	65	65	265
T5	-20	Anders Hansen	69	62	72	65	268
T5	-20	Carlos Rodiles	65	65	67	71	268
T5	-20	Darren Clarke	65	71	65	67	268
T8	-19	David Howell	66	69	69	65	269
T8	-19	Jarrod Moseley	68	65	67	69	269

Position	Score	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
T8	-19	Jarrod Moseley	68	65	67	69	269
T8	-19	Michael Campbell	69	67	66	67	269
T16	-16	Adam Scott	66	69	67	70	272
T19	-14	Marcus Fraser	66	70	72	66	274
T19	-14	Nick O'Hern	67	70	72	65	274
T43	-9	Brett Rumford	66	72	68	73	279
T50	-8	Peter Fowler	69	67	73	71	280
Cut -4
CUT	-3	Peter O'Malley	68	73	-	-	141
CUT	-2	Greg Turner	69	73	-	-	142
CUT	-2	Richard Green	70	72	-	-	142
RETD	-	Pierre Fulke	-	-	-	-	RETD

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