Victorious Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley scared the life out of Gleneagles team-mate Justin Rose when they went for a tandem bike ride around the Lake Malaren course ahead of the BMW Masters here in Shanghai.

McGinley delighted in filling in for the absent Rory McIlroy in a TV promo shoot also involving Ian Poulter and China’s Ashun Wu.

The script called for McGinley and Rose to jump aboard a two-seater state-of-the-art BMW pushbike and race Poulter and Wu who were seated in a futuristic BMW i8 sports sedan.

The i8 was similar to one loaned McIlroy during the FedEx Cup Series BMW Championship in Denver.

Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley along with Justin Rose, wu and Ian Poulter in between their respective Lake Malaren race machines.

However after the mandatory photo shoots and video footage aside the clubhouse BMW’s Marco Kaussler flags off the contestants.

The action then moves to the 18th fairway where we see McGinley and Rose pedaling hard up the last 50-yards, and with Poulter and Wu driving up the cart path.

The race ends in a dead heat and all four players took to a greenside bunker and with Wu, who was the first Chinese-born to compete on the Japan Tour, holing his shot to win the encounter for he and Poulter.

“I was hanging on for dear life,” said Rose.

“It’s the first time I’ve ridden a tandem.  When I had the steady hands of the captain up front, I felt I was in good hands.  But there is a first time for everything, and that was a first time I’ve been introduced to a tandem.

“So I was a bit shaky at first and Paul and I were joking about one guy goes one way, and the other guy goes the other way.  We definitely needed a bit of practice, let’s put it that way.”

McGinley arrived in Shanghai from last weekend’s pro-celebrity event on Hainan Island off the China coast where he finished third behind Rose in a two-day event reduced to just 13 holes due to rain.

“Third place from a tired, washed-up old golfer is not that bad,” he said joking.

Paul Ginley steering Justin Rose around the Lake Malaren course. (Photo – Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)