{"id":7,"date":"2007-05-31T23:31:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zhouxunshu.com\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-05-31T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T15:31:48","slug":"qingdao-day-1-zhou-rallies-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Qingdao, Day 1: Zhou rallies late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/wp-content\/themes\/greenery-10\/images\/zhouxunshu053107.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Zhou birdied two of the final three holes today to escape with a 6-over 78, placing him tied for 61st place after the first round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omegachinatour.com\/english\/\">2007 China Tour<\/a>&#8216;s Qingdao Leg at Qingdao Huashan Golf Club. Also tied at 61st is local product Dong Caihong, the first woman to play on the China Tour. Complete Day 1 coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omegachinatour.com\/english\/newslist\/viewnews.asp?id=168\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Zhou fired a disappointing 5-over 41 on the front nine. He was a perhaps a little rusty, only having played on a course <em>once<\/em> in the two week layoff between Qingdao and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omegachinatour.com\/english\/schedule\/viewleg.asp?id=21\">2007 season opener in Nanjing<\/a>. Zhou was busy teaching as many lessons as possible at the driving range he works at in Chongqing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an effort to pad his wallet in anticipation of a long four week stretch away from home, and his paying job. After Qingdao, it&#8217;s straight to Beijing for a China Unicom tournament. Next up is the third leg of the China Tour in Guangzhou June 21-24.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In Nanjing, Zhou finished tied for 50th and earned RMB 4.850 ($634) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d before tax \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which covered about half of his costs associated with participating in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Follow the Qingdao action with live scoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoringsolutions.com.hk\/2007021f.htm\">here<\/a>. Zhou tees off Friday at 7 am.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danwashburn\/523275332\/\">Photo<\/a> by Tommy Zhao.<\/em><\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2007-qingdao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zhouxunshu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}