Published July 17, 2008 on April 26, 2018

Local Hope Jin Leads the Way at Volvo China Open

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Homegrown talent Daxing Jin raised the local cheers when he signed for a flawless eight-under-par 64 to lead by one shot in the opening round of the prestigious Volvo China Open on Thursday.

The 25-year-old Jin, who is making his fifth appearance in his National Open this week, is thrilled to return with a bogey-free round highlighted by six birdies and an eagle at the Beijing Topwin Golf and Country Club.

Jin said, “I played really well today. I’m really happy with my form and I have to say I would give myself 100 marks for today’s round. I hardly give myself 100 marks when I play in tournaments but today was really good I thought.

“My strategy today was just to hit the greens in the regulation and I did that for 17 of the 18 holes, and the one I missed I managed a par, so that was great. My putting was good too. I made three long putts out there. I am really pleased.

“I don’t want to give myself too much pressure. It’s still very early. I will continue to do what I have been doing for the next three rounds. I will just keep targeting fairways and greens out there and then give myself chances for birdies.

“On the eighth hole, I was about ten yards from the pin with my second shot and I saw Scott (Jamieson) make eagle from a similar position so I had confidence that I might chip it in. I read the line from Scott’s shot and holed it.

“It wasn’t very windy out there today and it was a pretty smooth round for me. I was targeting two or three-under today but I did better than that. I am really happy. I will aim to make the cut first but I don’t want to think about it right now.”

Japanese hotshot Hideto Tanihara stole the limelight by driving home a new Volvo XC90 T5 Momentum, thanks to an ace on the par-three 16th hole in the CN¥20,000,000 (approx. US$3,178,000) event, which is the oldest professional golf tournament in the country.

Matt Wallace of England, who claimed his breakthrough win in India last month, carded a solid 65 to share second place with Nino Bertasio of Italy while in-form Scott Vincent of Zimbabwe stayed two shots off the pace in tied-fourth alongside Alexander Bjork of Sweden.

The 24th edition of the Volvo China Open is tri-sanctioned by the Asian Tour, European Tour, and the China Golf Association. It is staged for the third successive year at the Topwin Golf and Country Club.

 

Scores after round 1  

64 D Jin (Chn) ,
65 M Wallace (Eng) , N Bertasio (Ita) ,
66 S Vincent (Zim) , A Björk (Swe) ,
67 J Scrivener (Aus) , S Jamieson (Sco) ,
68 P Pittayarat (Tha) , A Otaegui (Esp) , D Lipsky (USA) , S Lee (Kor) , J Veerman (USA) , A Pavan (Ita) , M Kinhult (Swe) , G Bhullar (Ind) , J Guerrier (Fra) , Y Lin (am) (Chn) ,
69 N Elvira (Esp) , W Ormsby (Aus) , A Levy (Fra) , A Dodt (Aus) , S Sharma (Ind) , A Quiros (Esp) , J Campillo (Esp) , J Smith (Eng) , B Snyder (USA) , J Choi (Kor) , N Fung (Mas) , Y Ikeda (Jpn) , S Horsfield (Eng) , A Atwal (Ind) , K Horne (RSA) , M Kawamura (Jpn) ,
70 H Li (Chn) , D Kataoka (Jpn) , P Khongwatmai (Tha) , S Kim (USA) , Y Liu (Chn) , T Pulkkanen (Fin) , R Fox (Nzl) , J Luiten (Ned) , A Wu (Chn) , A Da Silva (Bra) , L Bjerregaard (Den) , S Brazel (Aus) , J Morrison (Eng) , P Larrazábal (Esp) ,
71 S Norris (RSA) , P Dunne (Irl) , A Connelly (Can) , C Pigem (Esp) , H Ryu (Kor) , Y Cao (Chn) , R Lee (Can) , B Neil (Sco) , X Li (Chn) , A Bland (Aus) , M Kieffer (Ger) , T Detry (Bel) , R Gouveia (Por) , W Wu (Chn) , K Joshi (Ind) , C Shinkwin (Eng) , M Shin (USA) , J Suri (USA) , M Pavon (Fra) , M Ilonen (Fin) , C Hanson (Eng) , W Lu (Tpe) , D Burmester (RSA) , O Fisher (Eng) , C Sordet (Fra) , M Tabuena (Phi) ,
72 G Bourdy (Fra) , R Wannasrichan (Tha) , D Brooks (Eng) , B Xiao (Chn) , J Wang (Kor) , P Peterson (USA) , E Molinari (Ita) , M Fraser (Aus) , A Sandhu (Ind) , X Luo (Chn) , J Zhang (Chn) , B Stone (RSA) , E Van Rooyen (RSA) , H Tanihara (Jpn) , B Wiesberger (Aut) , M Manassero (Ita) , R Wattel (Fra) , A Chesters (Eng) , T Jaidee (Tha) , W Huang (Chn) , H Chao (Chn) , J O’Toole (USA) , B Rumford (Aus) ,
73 P Meesawat (Tha) , L Zhang (Chn) , H Wu (Chn) , L Slattery (Eng) , G Havret (Fra) , L Jensen (Den) , R Bland (Eng) , J Lagergren (Swe) , K Aphibarnrat (Tha) , A Rai (Eng) , S Kapur (Ind) , G Green (Mas) , Z She (Chn) ,
74 D Chen (Chn) , H Zhang (Chn) , J Norris (Aus) , Z He (Chn) , T Olesen (Den) , R Cho (Kor) , S Han (USA) , R Paratore (Ita) , N Colsaerts (Bel) , J Janewattananond (Tha) ,
75 Z Tong (Chn) , X Yao (Chn) , Z Chen (Chn) , M Siem (Ger) , G Zhou (Chn) , B Hebert (Fra) , L Herbert (Aus) , P Saksansin (Tha) , S Chawrasia (Ind) , W Liang (Chn) , S Chan (Tpe) , D Gleeson (Aus) , X Chen (Chn) ,
76 D Im (USA) , C Chen (Chn) , Z Liu (Chn) , T Wu (Chn) , Z He (Chn) , X Wang (Chn) , M Warren (Sco) ,
77 D Nisbet (Aus) , J Singh (Ind) , C Ma (Chn) , S Hend (Aus) , Y Yang (Chn) ,
78 S Fan (Chn) ,
79 S He (Chn) , J Ye (Chn) , D Wang (Chn) , Z Ouyang (Chn) , L Lien (Tpe) , D Su (Chn) , H Porteous (RSA) , X Wang (Chn) ,
80 P Chen (am) (Chn) ,
83 G Chen (am) (Chn) ,
84 R Tang (Chn) ,