Big guns suffer at the Manor

Favourite Retief Goosen and defending champion Robert Karlsson, the top two players in the Wales Open at Celtic Manor, both went crashing out at the halfway point tonight.

Two weeks before he tries for a third US Open victory in seven years Goosen, the only member of the world’s top 25 taking part in the event, slumped to a second-round 73 on the par 69 lay-out.