Casey and fellow Englishman Ian Poulter are the only two players to play in all seven HSBC Champions

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On his way to a 67, Fredrik Jacobson reeled off three birdies in a row for a second consecutive day. In the second round , he birdied Nos. 14, 15 and 16. In Saturday s third round , he parred the opening hole then had birdies on Nos. 2, 3 and 4. In the first round , Jacobson eagled the 16th hole and birdied the 17th and 18th.
Jacobson s 200 broke the 54-hole scoring record of 14-under 202 shared by Phil Mickelson (2009) and Francesco Molinari u2 tour dates (2010) since the tournament became a World Golf Championships event. Both Mickelson and Molinari went on to win the HSBC Champions. The tournament 54-hole scoring record is 16-under 200, set in 2007 by David Howell and matched by Jacobson. 2006.
Jacobson saw his bogey-free streak end at 37 holes Saturday when he bogeyed the par-4 ninth hole. He averted a bogey on the par-5 eighth hole when he scrambled for a par after driving his ball into the rough and watching as a tree branch knocked down his second shot . His last bogey before Saturday came at the seventh hole in the first round.
u2 tour dates Jacobson is in the field this week marking his first HSBC Champions start thanks to his first PGA TOUR victory earlier this summer at the Travelers Championship. In his career, Jacobson has three international victories to go with his PGA TOUR title, all coming on the European Tour and all in 2003: the Omega Hong Kong Open , the Algarve Portugal Open and the Volvo Masters.
Jacobson is No. 54 in the Official World Golf Ranking. A win this week would make him the second-lowest ranked player to with the HSBC Champions, behind Y.E. Yang, who was No. 77 when he won in 2006.
This is Jacobson s second consecutive week playing in Asia. The 2003 Hong Kong Open champion, making his first start in China, finished third last week in Kuala Lumpur at the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia, u2 tour dates an unofficial PGA TOUR event.
Jacobson is looking to become only the second Swede to win a World Golf Championships event. Fellow Gothenburg native Henrik Stenson won the 2007 Accenture Match Play Championship. Jacobson is currently the third-highest-ranked Swedish player in the Official World Golf Ranking, behind Robert Karlsson (No. 24) and Peter Hanson u2 tour dates (No. 52).
A year after tying for 72nd in the 77-player 2010 tournament, Louis Oosthuizen is in the thick of the chase after shooting a 68 Saturday. He s at 14-under, two strokes behind Fredrik Jacobson. A year ago, after opening with a 3-under 69, Oosthuizen shot back-to-back 80s in the second and third rounds before finishing with an even-par 72. This week, he opened u2 tour dates with a 71, followed by a 63 and Saturday u2 tour dates s 68. His last bogey came on his final hole of the first round.
u2 tour dates After bogeying his final hole of the first round (No. 9), Louis Oosthuizen has played bogey-free golf since, turning in back-to-back rounds u2 tour dates without a blemish on his scorecard. He s had 13 birdies and no bogeys since and is tied for second.
Since the HSBC Champions became a World Golf Championships event in 2009, Westwood has shot nothing but under-par rounds. In 2009, on his way to a tie for eighth, he shot rounds of 70-71-65-71. Last year in finishing runner-up to Francesco Molinari, he shot rounds of 66-70-67-67. His scoring average over his last 11 Sheshan International Golf Club rounds is 68.272
Although he s never won a World Golf Championships event, Lee Westwood u2 tour dates has runner-up finishes in three of the series four tournaments including the HSBC Champions. A year ago, Westwood finished second outside Shanghai. He tied for second at the 2008 Bridgestone Invitational and was second at the 2000 Cadillac Championship. His top showing at the Accenture Match Play Championship is a tie for 17th (won one match), something he s done seven times in the match-play event.
Rory McIlroy is looking to make it three consecutive top-five finishes at the HSBC Champions. Playing on a course he calls one of his favorites he plays all year, McIlroy shot a 65 Saturday at Sheshan International Golf Club and is tied for fourth. He s four strokes behind Fredrik Jacobson. In 2009, McIlroy recovered from an opening 73 to shoot rounds u2 tour dates of 68-70-63 to finish fourth. Last year, McIlroy had four under-par rounds and was fifth.
This is McIlroy s 12th World Golf Championships start, with his fourth-place u2 tour dates finish at the 2009 HSBC Champions his top performance. He tied for fifth at the 2009 Accenture Match Play Championship and tied for sixth earlier this year at the Bridgestone Invitational.
Adam Scott, the reigning World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational champion, remained u2 tour dates in contention at the HSBC Champions with a 69 (3-under) Saturday. He struggled on the front-nine, shooting a 1-over 37 after shooting a 31 there Friday. On the back nine, Scott shot a 4-under 32, capped by an eagle on the par-5 18th.
Scott is looking to become only the second player to win back-to-back World Golf Championships starts, joining Tiger Woods, u2 tour dates who accomplished the feat six times (including three in a row in 2007-08). Woods owns 16 World Golf Championships titles; the only other multiple World Golf Championships winners are: Geoff Ogilvy (three) and Ernie Els, Darren Clarke and Phil Mickelson (two each). Only Woods and Mickelson have won multiple World Golf Championships titles in a season.
With four consecutive birdies to begin his back nine and five in a six-hole stretch Martin Kaymer climbed into contention Saturday u2 tour dates with a 68. Kaymer s previous-best finish at this World Golf Championships event is a tie for sixth in 2009.
Kaymer began his third round with a par on the first hole. He then proceeded to bogey the par-5 second u2 tour dates and the par-4 third holes. He finished with an even-par 36 on the front nine and then blistered the Sheshan u2 tour dates International layout u2 tour dates with a back-nine 32.
Kaymer is ranked u2 tour dates fourth in The Race to Dubai on the strength of his victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in January and three other top-three finishes. He lost in the finals to Luke Donald, 3 and 2, at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and was also second at the Omega European Masters. He finished third at the Volvo World Match Play Championship.
Paul Casey stayed in contention through 54 holes after a third-round 70 left him six strokes behind the leader. He is looking to retain his PGA TOUR playing privileges after not playing the requisite number of events in 2011 and finishing No. 131 on the money list. Should he win the HSBC Champions, he would be fully exempt on the PGA TOUR through the 2014 season as a victory comes with a three-year exemption for current PGA TOUR members.
u2 tour dates Casey and fellow Englishman Ian Poulter are the only two players to play in all seven HSBC Champions, with the last three falling under the World Golf Championships umbrella. Casey has enjoyed top-10 finishes in 2005 (seventh), 2006 (tied for sixth), 2010 (tied for sixth). Poulter s career-best finish at this event is a tie for 13th a year ago. He s tied for 11th after three rounds this year.
In 28 previous World Golf Championships starts, Casey has yet to win, but he has posted 10 top-10 finishes, u2 tour dates including back-to-back runner-up finishes at the Accenture Match Play Championship (2009-10).
u2 tour dates Yuta Ikeda became the third player this week to record a 31 on one of his nines. The Japan Golf Tour veteran did it on the strength of five birdies on the front nine at Sheshan Golf Club. He joins Louis Oosthuizen and Adam Scott with 31s on the front nine this week. After his 5-under front-nine performance, however, he came in with a 1-over 37, with a double bogey on No. 10 and bogeys on Nos. 11, 12 and 17.
The low rounds of the day belonged to Zhang Xin-Jun and Harrison Frazar. Both players shot 64. Zhang, who was bogey-free, had a pair of 32s on each nine. He finished u2 tour dates his round with a flourish, making birdie at the final three holes. Zhang is one of four native Chinese players to receive u2 tour dates an invitation to play in the HSBC Champions who was not otherwise exempt. The 24-year-old turned professional this year and has no Asian Tour starts u2 tour dates in 2011.
Harrison Frazar had the low nine of the tournament, with a 6-under 30 to start his third round. Beginning on the back nine, he had seven birdies (five in a row on Nos. 12-16) u2 tour dates and was 9-under through 15 before parring the 16th and 17th and bogeying u2 tour dates the 18th. Frazar s low PGA TOUR 18-hole score is 62, something he s done five times most recently at the 2005 B.C. Open, when he tied for ninth.
The World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions is the last opportunity for a player to earn a spot in the PGA TOUR s season-opening Hyundai u2 tour dates Tournament of Champions. Of those in the top 10 on the HSBC Champions leaderboard through 36 holes, six players would need a win this week to qualify for a trip to Maui: Louis Oosthuizen (second), Lee Westwood (tied for fourth), Martin Kaymer (tied for sixth), Graeme McDowell (tied for sixth), u2 tour dates Bo Van Pelt (tied for eighth), Paul Casey (tied for eighth) and Zhang Xin-Jun (tied for eighth).
For 2011, the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions u2 tour dates will count as an official PGA TOUR victory and offer a three-year exemption u2 tour dates on the PGA TOUR provided it is won by a PGA TOUR member.If a non-PGA TOUR member wins the HSBC Champions, he would not receive a PGA TOUR exemption, but he would qualify for the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.Prize money from the $7 million purse does NOT, however, count toward the official PGA TOUR money list, even if a PGA TOUR member wins.There were no preferred lies during the third round. + PGA TOUR Media Release