Water misery for Slattery

Lee Slattery moved back into a share of the lead in the ISPS Handa Wales Open at Celtic Manor today - and then put two balls in water on the same hole for a quadruple-bogey seven.

First-round leader Slattery resumed two behind fellow Englishman Ross Fisher and wasted little time drawing level.

Fisher, back on the course where he made his Ryder Cup debut two years ago, bogeyed the first after driving into the rough and Slattery then converted an 18-foot chance on the next.

But at the 189-yard third the Southport golfer's tee shot rolled down the bank into the lake and then from the drop zone his next attempt spun back in.

From five-under-par and joint leader he crashed to one under and into a tie for ninth.

Slattery was only three behind, however, as Fisher had gone over the green and after a good chip missed from four feet.

Into joint second place and only one back were compatriot Chris Wood, Dutch pair Joost Luiten and Tim Sluiter and Thai golfer Thongchai Jaidee.

Nineteen-year-old Italian Matteo Manassero had reached three under as well with five birdies in six holes from the fifth, but the two-time European Tour winner, who on Monday came through a play-off to qualify for the US Open, bogeyed the 499-yard 16th.

Scot Paul Lawrie, second in the Ryder Cup points race after his runner-up finish at Wentworth last weekend, reached two under, but then had a double-bogey seven on the ninth.

Former Open champion Lawrie picked up a birdie at the next par five, the 562-yard 11th, only to bogey the next two to drop back to one-over.

The changes at the top continued to come thick and fast.

Sluiter joined Fisher when he birdied the fifth, but his fellow countryman Luiten leap-frogged both of them with an eagle two on the driveable 377-yard 15th.

Manassero was absolutely livid when he fell four behind with another bogey at the short 17th, throwing his ball away and then slinging his putter down as well.

Fisher birdied the fifth and sixth to regain the lead, but promptly bogeyed the next two.

That handed top spot back to Luiten and when he two-putted the par-five last for birdie he was round in a best-of-the-week 64 to set the target.

Jaidee quickly joined him, however, with birdies at eight and nine, while Fisher was two back with Sluiter and Spaniard Carlos Del Moral.