{"id":39,"date":"2007-09-20T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T09:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-09-20T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T09:17:44","slug":"xiamen-day-1-late-bogeys-drop-zhou-from-top-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Xiamen, Day 1: Late bogeys drop Zhou from top 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhou Xun Shu rebounded nicely from the worst performance of his professional golf career, but his one-under 69 on Thursday was another round that left him pondering, &#8220;What if?&#8221; Last week in Guangzhou, Zhou finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiantour.com\/livescoring.htm?id=188\" target=\"_blank\">almost dead last<\/a> in the Midea Classic, an Asian Tour event with lots of foreign pros and a big US$400,000 purse. But a freak accident \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Zhou slipped and fell while crossing a road median \u00e2\u20ac\u201d left his left thumb bloody and raw, and the pain made driving the ball problematic. Zhou&#8217;s early exit in Guangzhou allowed his thumb to heal, and gave him time to focus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omegachinatour.com\/english\/schedule\/viewleg.asp?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">Xiamen Leg of the China Tour<\/a>, the second to last event of the 2007 season. He arrived in Xiamen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The extra time appeared to pay dividends during the opening round at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientgolf.com\/course\/11_xiamen_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orient Golf &amp; Country Club<\/a>. As Zhou walked the 18th fairway, the big leaderboard in the distance showed him in first place at 3-under. But the scoredboard had yet to record the bogey Zhou registered on No. 17 after teeing off into a clutch of small palm trees. And the scoreboard also had yet to recognize the bogey Zhou was about to score on 18. He left his 55-foot birdie putt short \u00e2\u20ac\u201d about 7 feet short \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and his par putt stopped one inch from the cup. And thus 3-under quickly became 1-under and the scorekeepers scrambled to remove Zhou&#8217;s name from the big board.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Zhou&#8217;s 69 put him in a seven-way tie for seventh place, four strokes behind the leader, Wu Kangchun, who shot a 65 despite a double bogey on No. 7.<\/p>\n<p>View the entire leaderboard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoringsolutions.com.hk\/chtour.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2007-xiamen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}