Ian Poulter has no intention taking the passion out of his game even though it has brought him another European Tour fine.

Poulter damaged a tee marker during last week's Mercedes-Benz Championship in Cologne, just as he did at the British Open in July, and said yesterday at The Belfry: "At the end of the day I am not going to accept hitting a bad shot. If anyone gets angry and you do something silly the Tour has got every right to do whatever they do.

"Occasionally, a couple of times a year, you do whatever you do to let it (the frustration) out and unfortunately it will penalise you in the pocket. I am not going to stand and laugh. It's just in my make-up - part and parcel of me. I'm not going to be 'Mr Nice' and smile at every bad shot I hit.

"That's not in my DNA. Hopefully I can control myself, but occasionally I get caught with my guard down. But it's not like I took a Samurai sword out and chopped heads off. I tapped a tee marker a bit harder than they would like."

The size of the fine has not been announced, but it is not thought to approach the £5,000 amount he handed over last year after a verbal assault on a marshal at the Irish Open. On that occasion, Tour executive director George O'Grady allowed Poulter to name his sum.

Meanwhile, Stephen Browne hopes to repeat his 2005 victory in the €330,000 Kazakhstan Open this weekend at the Nurtau Golf Club.

In what was the first professional golf event held in the Central Asian republic, the then 31-year-old Dubliner squeaked past his room-mate Colm Moriarty by a shot to earn his European Tour card by bounding into the top 10 on the Challenge Tour rankings.

"The course is way tougher than I remember. They have lengthened it a lot and the rough is deeper and more consistent," said Browne yesterday.