Dodd on the up
After a nightmare season in which he has made only four cuts in 21 tournaments and never had a single top-40 finish, Welshman Stephen Dodd’s career is suddenly on the up again.
A week after earning £200,000 (€282,731) for fourth place in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth the 42-year-old former World Cup winner climbed through the field at the European Open with four successive birdies today.
Winner of the title three years ago – that was his last victory – Dodd had made the cut right on the limit of one over par, but his burst from the second hole lifted him into a tie for 14th place at the London Club in Kent.
Accompanied by the roar of engines from the nearby Brands Hatch circuit, he was not the only player firing on all cylinders.
Thailand’s Chapchai Nirat had five birdies and a bogey in the first eight holes to be three-under as well.
That was five strokes behind the two halfway leaders, Indian Jeev Milkha Singh and France’s Michael Lorenzo-Vera.
