Golf-Poulter confident despite 'smash on head with wet salmon'

By Tony Jimenez WOBURN, England, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Tournament host Ian Poulter is confident of mounting a title charge at the British Masters over the weekend despite having to endure "a smash around the head with a wet salmon" on Friday. "I just hit a shank," Poulter told reporters after a one-under-par 70 gave him a four-under aggregate of 138, five behind joint leaders Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark and Englishman Matthew Fitzpatrick. When I'm taking too much off a club I've got to be very careful because there's a tendency to go a little quick." Poulter went from the ridiculous to the sublime by producing what he described as one of the best up and downs of his career to get away with a par four at the 13th.

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