European Tour 2017: Live leaderboard for Porsche European Open

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ashley Chesters, Patrick Reed, Pat Perez, Hennie Otto, Charl Schwartzel, Alvaro Quiros, Thomas Bjorn, Jordan Smith, Jimmy Walker and Robert Rock are among those in the field for European Tour's Porsche European Open 2017 this week.

Round 3 is Saturday, July 29.

EUROPEAN TOURPORSCHE EUROPEAN OPENSite: Hamburg, Germany.Course: Green Eagle GC.Purse: 2 million euros.Television: Thursday-Friday, 5-7 a.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 2-7 a.m. (tape delay Sunday, Golf Channel); Sunday, 2-6 a.m. (tape delay Monday, Golf Channel).Defending champion: Alexander Levy.Last week: Jordan Spieth won the British Open.Race to Dubai leader: Tommy Fleetwood.Notes: PGA champion Jimmy Walker, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez are staying in Europe to play. The field also includes Chase Koepka, the younger brother of U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka. ... Sixteen players are in Germany who competed in the British Open. That includes Austin Connelly, the American-born Canadian who lives in Dallas and has the same swing coach as Jordan Spieth. ... The European Open dates to 1978 when Bobby Wadkins won at Walton Heath. Wadkins played the most PGA Tour events without winning. ... The tournament left England in 1995 and spent 15 years at The K Club in Ireland before a five-ye ar hiatus, starting anew in Germany in 2015. ... Bernhard Langer is the only German to win the tournament, once when it was in England, the other in Ireland.Next week: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.Online: www.europeantour.com

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)


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