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| November 16, 2003 | Sunday | Ramazan 20, 1424 |
Germany suffer setback
KIAWAH ISLAND (South Carolina), Nov 15: Friday was not a nice day at the beach for Germany’s Alex Cejka and Marcel Siem as they dropped from first place into a tie for sixth at the WGC-World Cup.
The Germans shot a five-over-par 77 in the foursome, alternate shot format, 10 shots worse than Thursday’s opening round.
Germany began the day at five-under-par, one shot ahead of Wales. Two bogeys and a birdie on the front nine, though, dropped Germany into a first-place tie with South Africa, who emerged as the second-round leaders at five-under 139.
On the back nine, Germany began to unravel. At the par-four 13th, Cejka drove his ball into the left bunker. Neither Siem nor Cejka could extricate themselves from the bunker with the second or third shot.
Eventually, Cejka made a 20-foot putt for double bogey.
“It’s like a beach sand, its very difficult to spin the ball from the trap by the green, when your coming toward the face it’s always plugged so it’s unlucky, but that’s the way it is sometimes,” Cejka said.
Cejka again left a shot in the bunker on the par-three 14th, but Siem’s recovery allowed the Germans to salvage a bogey.
After a birdie that got the Germans back to three-under-par at the 16th, Siem hit his drive at the 18th into the left fairway bunker.
Cejka again could not get the ball out as it was plugged at eye-level and Siem was left to hit back to the fairway. The Germans made an eventual double bogey.
Leading second round scores (U.S. unless stated):
139 South Africa (Trevor Immelman/Rory Sabbatini) 70 69
141 United States (Jim Furyk/Justin Leonard) 71 70, France (Thomas Levet/Raphael Jacquelin) 69 72
142 Wales (Bradley Dredge/Ian Woosnam) 68 74
143 Argentina (Eduardo Romero/Angel Cabrera) 70 73
144 Sweden (Fredrik Jacobson/Niclas Fasth) 72 72, Scotland (Paul Lawrie/Alastair Forsyth) 71 73, Germany (Alex Cejka/Marcel Siem) 67 77
145 Japan (Shigeki Maruyama/Hidemichi Tanaka) 74 71, New Zealand (Michael Campbell/David Smail) 71 74, Paraguay (Carlos Franco/Marco Ruiz) 70 75
146 England (Paul Casey/Justin Rose) 73 73, Spain (Ignacio Garrido/Miguel Angel Jimenez) 71 75, South Korea (K.J. Choi/S.K. Ho) 71 75
148 Australia (Stuart Appleby/Stephen Leaney) 72 76
149 Mexico (Alejandro Quiroz/Antonio Maldonado) 71 78
151 Ireland (Padraig Harrington/Paul McGinley) 74 77
154 Thailand (Jamnian Chitprasong/ Pornsakon Tipsanit) 76 78
155 Myanmar (Kyi Hla Han/Aung Win) 72 83
156 Hong Kong (Derek Fung/James Stewart) 76 80, Trinidad and Tobago (Stephen Ames/Robert Ames) 75 81, Denmark (Soren Kjeldsen/Anders Hansen) 72 84
164 India (Digvijay Singh/Gaurav Ghei) 81 83 —Reuters
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