Hong Kong Open: 100/1 tip Wade Ormsby wins Hong Kong Open

Final leaderboard

-11 Wade Ormsby

-10 Rafa Cabrera Bello, Alexander Bjork, Julian Suri, Paul Peterson

-9 Tommy Fleetwood

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Day four report

Wade Ormsby, tipped by golf expert Ben Coley at odds of 100/1, won his first European Tour title after a dramatic conclusion to the Hong Kong Open.

Our man put the 37-year-old forward as one of his big-priced selections for the first event of the 2018 season and, along with further place money, he helped produce 137 points of profit for followers.

A birdie at the 17th gave the Australian the outright lead, and when Alexander Bjork bogeyed the last soon after, Ormsby held a two-shot advantage.

But as he lined up a lengthy birdie try on the final hole, Rafa Cabrera Bello cut the deficit to a single shot with a mid-range birdie of his own at 17, piling the pressure on a player who had played 263 tournaments on the tour without winning.

Ormsby went on to nervously three-putt, placing him a tie with Cabrera Bello on 11-under, only for the Spaniard to take three to get down from a greenside bunker and miss out by a shot - just as he had a year earlier.

It took until his final start of the previous campaign for Ormsby to secure his card but he now earns a two-year exemption with just the second professional title of his career, and first at this level.

"It means a lot to me," said a tearful Ormsby. "I've played a lot of golf in Europe, everywhere, and a few bumps along the way but it's pretty cool to get a win this late in your career.

"A few of my are mates over there so that makes it pretty special, having mates around makes it all the more special.

"I probably won't sleep too much on that flight on the way to Oz tonight."

Bjork had looked like the man to beat when reaching 12-under with a birdie at the 13th, but bogeys at two of the final four holes saw the young Swede drop into a tie for second, providing more profit for our followers having also been selected each-way at 100/1.

"That was a really disappointing finish," he said. "It's a very good week, of course, but I wanted to win, that's for sure. I'm going to be disappointed for a few days but I will get over it and come back again."

Third-round leader SSP Chawrasia saw his challenge fade on Sunday, a triple-bogey at the ninth the start of his fall to a share of seventh alongside four-time champion Miguel Angel Jimenez, who closed with a round of 63.

Julian Suri was another to share the lead late on but the American couldn't get his birdie try to the cup at the 18th after a bogey at the previous hole, while back in sixth was Tommy Fleetwood, who made 16 pars to start the final round before a birdie finally arrived in a one-under 69.

Ben Coley's pre-tournament preview

On the winner, Wade Ormsby: "We've seen two Australian winners here in the last three years and that makes some sense, given that so many of them grew up tackling firm, fast conditions on what are often old-fashioned golf courses Down Under.

"Ormsby certainly prefers this type of challenge, as he explained on his way to eighth place here in 2013.

"Last time out he stayed on for fifth at Valderrama, underlining yet again what sort of player he is, and his record at Fanling is very solid. In five starts this decade he's made five cuts, with just one disaster round, while he's sat inside the top five at halfway on two occasions.

"With three top-six finishes on the European Tour since the start of August, Ormsby's game is in good nick and there's probably no player in this field who is more precise from the tee box.

"Given that his short game was particularly sharp last time, everything is in place for another big week."

On runner-up Alexander Bjork: "Certainly, his short game looks made for Fanling and if he can drive it as accurately as he has lately (ninth in Dubai, 15th at the Nedbank), there should be plenty of opportunities for his iron play - described as aggressive and a major strength by Matthew Southgate during his commentary stint last week - to shine."

Final collated scores

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 70)

269 Wade Ormsby (Aus) 68 68 65 68

270 Julian Suri (USA) 68 67 69 66, Alexander Bjork (Swe) 69 66 67 68, Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spa) 69 68 64 69, Paul Peterson (USA) 70 68 65 67

271 Tommy Fleetwood 68 68 66 69

272 S.S.P Chawrasia (Ind) 65 66 69 72, Micah Lauren Shin (USA) 67 69 68 68, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 70 69 70 63

273 Shubhankar Sharma (Ind) 66 71 69 67, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha) 70 68 68 67, Justin Rose 68 69 68 68, Clement Sordet (Fra) 71 71 64 67, Thomas Detry (Bel) 67 69 66 71, James Morrison 71 66 68 68

274 Dylan Frittelli (Rsa) 71 65 68 70, Sean Crocker (USA) 69 70 66 69, Poom Saksansin (Tha) 67 68 70 69

275 Haotong Li (Chn) 68 69 72 66, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 69 71 66 69, Joakim Lagergren (Swe) 69 66 70 70, Matthew Fitzpatrick 66 73 67 69

276 Jamie Donaldson 67 69 70 70, Chris Paisley 71 70 65 70, Sam Brazel (Aus) 69 71 66 70, Nino Bertasio (Ita) 73 69 67 67

277 Marcus Kinhult (Swe) 67 69 68 73, Rattanon Wannasrichan (Tha) 72 69 67 69, Wen-Tang Lin (Tpe) 69 71 70 67, Danny Chia (Mal) 68 71 70 68

278 Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 69 64 74 71, Hideto Tanihara (Jpn) 72 69 70 67, Robert Rock 69 73 68 68, Scott Barr (Aus) 75 67 68 68, Ryan Evans 71 69 69 69, Keith Horne (Rsa) 67 69 76 66, Rashid Khan (Ind) 71 68 70 69, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 71 67 72 68

279 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 72 68 69 70, Ashley Chesters 71 70 70 68

280 Ben Leong (Mal) 70 71 67 72, Steven Brown 72 70 68 70, Harold Varner III (USA) 69 71 73 67, Chris Hanson 71 66 67 76, Paul Waring 71 68 68 73, Paul Dunne 71 71 66 72, (a) Leon D'Souza (Hkg) 72 70 65 73

281 Chien-Yao Hung (Tai) 72 69 71 69, Yi-Keun Chang (Kor) 69 70 71 71, Matteo Manassero (Ita) 72 69 69 71, Pedro Oriol (Spa) 72 68 68 73, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 71 71 70 69, Jin-ho Choi (Kor) 69 72 66 74

282 Carlos Pigem (Spa) 71 68 71 72, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 68 71 66 77

283 Angelo Que (Phi) 67 71 72 73

284 Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 68 71 74 71, Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 70 72 72 70, Ashun Wu (Chn) 74 68 73 69, Suradit Yongcharoenchai (Tha) 71 68 71 74, Sam Chien (USA) 72 69 73 70

285 Scott Hend (Aus) 73 67 76 69, Mukesh Kumar (Ind) 72 70 70 73, Gavin Green (Mal) 69 68 74 74

286 Bradley Neil 71 71 72 72

289 Panuphol Pittayarat (Tha) 73 69 73 74, Gregory Havret (Fra) 69 70 72 78

290 Ricardo Gouveia (Por) 70 72 74 74

Day three report

India's SSP Chawrasia will head into the final day of the Hong Kong Open with a narrow one-shot lead in Fanling.

A round of 69 on day three kept the 39-year-old ahead of a star-studded chasing field, even though they narrowed his day-three advantage by a single shot.

Chawrasia will look to hold the lead from start to finish on the opening event of the 2018 Race to Dubai.

Ryder Cup star Rafa Cabrera Bello and Australian Wade Ormsby were just a shot back following the third round as Chawrasia, looking for a first European Tour win outside of his home country, moved to 10 under.

Tommy Fleetwood, the newly-crowned Race to Dubai champion, was next on at eight under alongside Sweden's Alexander Bjork and Belgian Thomas Detry.

Both Ormsby and Bjork are 100/1 tips of our Ben Coley. They are now 7/1 and 9/1 respectively with Sky Bet, who make Cabrera Bello their 3/1 favourite.

Chawrasia is 4/1 with Fleetwood at 9/2. It's 12/1 bar.

Chawrasia will record a fifth win on the European Tour on Sunday if he is able to keep his challengers at bay, but first outside his native India.

He will have his work cut out as Spaniard Cabrera Bello and Englishman Fleetwood finished second and tied third respectively here last season.

Day two report

SSP Chawrasia, Sky Bet's new 3/1 tournament favourite, will take a two-shot lead into the weekend at the UBS Hong Kong Open after England's Matt Fitzpatrick tumbled down the leaderboard on the second day.

Fitzpatrick, who was looking to overcome a disappointing finish to last week's DP World Tour Championship, began the day one shot behind overnight leader Chawrasia but struggled on Friday.

A double bogey on the first set the tone and bogeys on the ninth, 11th and 14th holes contributed to a round of three-over 73, sending him sliding down to a share of 26th place, now eight shots off the lead.

India's Chawrasia continued to set a strong pace with just one blemish - a bogey on the 14th - on his scorecard as he went round in 66 to move to nine under for the tournament.

"It's a great round today," Chawrasia said on the European Tour website. "I was five under at one time and then three-putted number 14 but, still, it's a good score four under - I'm happy.

"I'm just following my game. Same thing I'm playing the last two days, exactly the same strategy.

"Obviously I'm under pressure a little bit, pressure is always tough so I can manage, hopefully, the next two days."

Chawrasia sits two shots clear of hard-charging Thomas Aiken, who had the best round of the tournament so far with a bogey-free 64.

"That was a little better, it was a fun round of golf," Aiken said. "Just went out there with the same game plan as yesterday, hit some good-quality shots and really didn't make many mistakes - that was the key."

The South African has sole possession of second place, two shots clear of a four-man group at five under that includes Ben Coley's 100/1 tip Alexander Bjork.

England's Tommy Fleetwood (10/1) carded a 68 to join an eight-way tie for seventh that also includes Welshman Jamie Donaldson, whose round of 69 moved him to four under for the tournament.

English trio Justin Rose, a 7/1 shot, Chris Hanson and James Morrison are part of a seven-man group one shot further back.

Collated second round scores

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 70):

131 S.S.P Chawrasia (Ind) 65 66

133 Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 69 64

135 Julian Suri (USA) 68 67, Alexander Bjork (Swe) 69 66, Joakim Lagergren (Swe) 69 66, Poom Saksansin (Tha) 67 68

136 Marcus Kinhult (Swe) 67 69, Micah Lauren Shin (USA) 67 69, Tommy Fleetwood 68 68, Jamie Donaldson 67 69, Keith Horne (Rsa) 67 69, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 68 68, Dylan Frittelli (Rsa) 71 65, Thomas Detry (Bel) 67 69

137 Haotong Li (Chn) 68 69, Shubhankar Sharma (Ind) 66 71, Justin Rose 68 69, Chris Hanson 71 66, Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spa) 69 68, Gavin Green (Mal) 69 68, James Morrison 71 66

138 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha) 70 68, Angelo Que (Phi) 67 71, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 71 67, Paul Peterson (USA) 70 68

139 Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 68 71, Paul Waring 71 68, Carlos Pigem (Spa) 71 68, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 68 71, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 70 69, Yi-Keun Chang (Kor) 69 70, Rashid Khan (Ind) 71 68, Danny Chia (Mal) 68 71, Sean Crocker (USA) 69 70, Gregory Havret (Fra) 69 70, Suradit Yongcharoenchai (Tha) 71 68, Matthew Fitzpatrick 66 73

140 Harold Varner III (USA) 69 71, Wen-Tang Lin (Tpe) 69 71, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 72 68, Scott Hend (Aus) 73 67, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 69 71, Ryan Evans 71 69, Sam Brazel (Aus) 69 71, Pedro Oriol (Spa) 72 68

141 Ben Leong (Mal) 70 71, Rattanon Wannasrichan (Tha) 72 69, Siddikur Rahman (Ban) 70 71, Matteo Manassero (Ita) 72 69, Ashley Chesters 71 70, Chris Paisley 71 70, Hideto Tanihara (Jpn) 72 69, Jin-ho Choi (Kor) 69 72, Chien-Yao Hung (Tai) 72 69, Sam Chien (USA) 72 69

142 Steven Brown 72 70, Ricardo Gouveia (Por) 70 72, Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 70 72, Panuphol Pittayarat (Tha) 73 69, Clement Sordet (Fra) 71 71, Ashun Wu (Chn) 74 68, Mukesh Kumar (Ind) 72 70, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 71 71, Bradley Neil 71 71, Robert Rock 69 73, Scott Barr (Aus) 75 67, Paul Dunne 71 71, (a) Leon D'Souza (Hkg) 72 70, Nino Bertasio (Ita) 73 69

The following players did not make the cut:

143 Pontus Widegren (Swe) 72 71, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 70 73, Lasse Jensen (Den) 73 70, Khalin Joshi (Ind) 69 74, Jazz Janewattananond (Tha) 72 71, Miguel Tabuena (Phi) 70 73, Chase Koepka (USA) 71 72, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 73 70, Sutijet Kooratanapisan (Tha) 70 73, Erik Van Rooyen (Rsa) 71 72, Piya Swangarunporn (Tha) 72 71, Scott Vincent (Zim) 71 72

144 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 72 72, Wei-Chih Lu (Tha) 73 71, David Howell 75 69, Chiragh Kumar (Ind) 74 70, Natipong Srithong (Tha) 71 73, Phachara Khongwatmai (Tha) 71 73, Prom Meesawat (Tha) 74 70, Pavit Tangkamolprasert (Tha) 73 71, Jbe Kruger (Rsa) 71 73, Gaganjeet Bhullar (Ind) 74 70, S Chikkarangappa (Ind) 73 71, Soomin Lee (Kor) 75 69, Oliver Farr 69 75

145 Javier Colomo (Spa) 77 68, Daniel Im (USA) 72 73, Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 73 72, Scott Fernandez (Spa) 75 70, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 74 71, Jeunghun Wang (Kor) 71 74, Casey O'Toole (USA) 73 72, David Lipsky (USA) 75 70, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 70 75, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 72 73

146 Anthony Kang (USA) 74 72, Daniel Brooks 80 66, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 75 71, Lian-Wei Zhang (Chn) 74 72, Danthai Boonma (Tha) 70 76, Todd Sinnott (Aus) 71 75, Aaron Rai 73 73

147 David Drysdale 73 74, Lionel Weber (Fra) 72 75, Antonio Lascuna (Phi) 73 74, Johannes Veerman (USA) 74 73, Jens Dantorp (Swe) 77 70

148 Shih-Chang Chan (Tpe) 75 73, Austin Connelly (Can) 75 73, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 72 76, Oliver Fisher 72 76

149 Rahil Gangjee (Ind) 75 74, Nicholas Fung (Mal) 75 74

150 Alfie Plant 77 73

151 (a) Taichi Kho (Hkg) 76 75, Jorge Campillo (Spa) 76 75, James Stewart 76 75

152 Tapio Pulkkanen (Fij) 77 75

153 (a) Matthew Cheung (Hkg) 75 78

155 (a) Joshua Shou (Sin) 79 76

156 Woon Man Wong (Hkg) 78 78

160 Tirawat Kaewsiribandit (Tha) 82 78

Day one report

Matt Fitzpatrick, Sky Bet's 9/2 favourite, believes he is right on track to erase his Dubai disappointment after an opening 66 in the UBS Hong Kong Open.

Fitzpatrick led by a shot at halfway in the defence of his DP World Tour Championship title last week, but struggled to a third round of 72 and eventually finished 12th.

That was still the 23-year-old from Sheffield's seventh straight top-15 finish since he won the Omega European Masters and a round containing six birdies and two bogeys at Fanling left him a shot behind leader SSP Chawrasia.

"It's a good start to the week," Fitzpatrick told europeantour.com. "It's not an easy course and listening to Justin Rose talking after the pro-am, he said four rounds of four under would be a good score. I'd definitely take that right now and see where you end up.

"I hit it great tee to green, think I had seven or eight chances inside 15 feet and on a day like today when it's so windy it was a good day.

"We had a bit of a crowd with us which was great. People are going to be following Tommy (Fleetwood) seeing as he won the Race to Dubai last week.

"I played with Tommy in my first start as a pro so we have known each other for quite some time and it's always good to play with him."

SKY BET PRICE BOOST: Justin Rose or Sergio Garcia to win - 3/1

Four days after being crowned European number one for the first time, Fleetwood, a 10/1 shot to go on and win this week, shrugged off the effects of playing his fifth event in a row with a 68 matched by Race to Dubai rival Rose.

"Everything felt good," said Fleetwood, who finished ahead of Olympic champion Rose on the money list.

"It was nice out there, on such a tough day, to have quite a few chances and be stress-free for the most part. My putting felt really good and I had a few that burnt the edge.

"It would have been nice for them to drop but we've got another three days for them to drop."

Rose, who won in Hong Kong in 2015, looked on course to finish ahead of Fleetwood until a bogey on the 18th, where he failed to get up and down from a greenside bunker.

"It was an interesting round because I made five birdies, all of them from two feet," Rose said. "I stuffed it in there five times but didn't really make putts of any distance.

"That was as tough as I have played this golf course today. It was very tricky and at this time of day, the greens get a little tough to read. It was a shame to miss the par putt on the last but other than that I am quite pleased with two under and a steady start."

Masters champion Sergio Garcia also bogeyed the tricky 18th in a round of 69 and is 10/1 the the latest betting.