Leaney to miss defence of his German Masters title

IN: News | European PGA | Linde German Masters (2003) | General | by Bruce Young | 18 Sep 2003

Stephen Leaney will now not be defending his title at the 2003 Linde German Masters, as his wife Tracey has gone into pre-labour back home in Perth and Leaney is keen to be with her.

Whilst the prospect of fatherhood is clearly something Leaney is looking forward to, the timing is unfortunate as Leaney's next three events would have been this week's event in Cologne, the Dunhill Links Championship the following week in Scotland followed by the American Express Championship in Georgia.

"It is a little disappointing because I had three big tournaments coming up, but is not a difficult decision for me to leave...my family comes first. It is always going to take precedence over golf." Stephen told Reuters in London.

Leaney, who is 84 places higher on the world ranking than at this time last year, is a member of this year's Presidents Cup team, which will be played in mid-November in South Africa.

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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