The Punter 
/ Steven Rawlings / 03 February 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Retief Goosen – 42 today and leading the Qatar field
"Louis Oosthuizen must have played well to keep a bogey off his card through 13 holes but the rot set in once the coverage started and I had to endure him bogeying three off his last five holes."
There's been a Fasth start in windswept Qatar, as Niclas joins Birthday Boy Goosen at the top off the leaderboard.....
17.45 - February 3rd, 2011
I've had a busy day away from the golf today, so I haven't seen much of the coverage. I did watch the first hour or so first thing this morning though and it wasn't much fun. One of my picks, Louis Oosthuizen, must have played well to keep a bogey off his card through 13 holes but the rot set in once the coverage started and I had to endure him bogeying three off his last five holes to drop back to a score of +1. That wasn't a disaster though and he's only four shots behind pace-setters Retief Goosen, who shot an impressive 69, and Niclas Fasth, who still has two holes of round one to play. Play was suspended due to fading light.
It's not been the greatest of starts for my picks with Alvaro Quiros the best of the rest but he's way back in a tie for 52nd after limping around in the afternoon winds in 75 strokes.
I'm a bit disappointed I didn't back Robert Karlsson, who I had considered carefully before the off. He's a shot off the lead and vying for favouritism with the Goose but I'm not tempted to get him onside right now. He performed minor miracles to hold his score together and played very scrappily over the last half a dozen holes.
I haven't made any further plays in Qatar but I have added a couple more in Phoenix, even though they still haven't started, thanks to a delay of 3 ½ hours due to frost. For some bizarre reason last week's winner Bubba Watson drifted right out yesterday and I managed to get a very small bet matched at [42.0], and I couldn't resist the [60.0] available on Ben Crane.
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