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McIlroy's Wentworth woes return

Francesco Molinari swapped the European Tour in favour of a stint in the United States last year "after 10 years of pretty much playing the same courses".

But you will be hard-pushed to get a bad word about Wentworth out of the Italian, who is on some roll at the BMW PGA Championship. A three-under 69 on Friday morning means he has now been finished 10 of his last 13 rounds here in the top 10 - including his current position atop the leaderboard.

It wasn't all plain-sailing for Molinari, whose overnight two-shot lead was almost instantly wiped out after bogeys at the first and third holes, but he played the remaining 15 in five-under to add a 69 to his opening 65 and set the clubhouse target of 10-under-par.