GONZALEZ GLIDES INTO LEAD AT GLENEAGLES
FROM EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
Ricardo
Gonzalez fired a second consecutive 65 over the PGA Centenary Course at
Gleneagles to charge into the halfway lead at the Johnnie Walker
Championship.
A sensational run of seven birdies in
eight holes ensured the big Argentinean a one stroke lead over Austria’s
Bernd Wiesberger, with the English duo of Tommy Fleetwood and Mark
Foster a further two strokes back heading into the weekend.
Gonzalez
revealed after his round that he would dearly love to collect a fifth
European Tour title to dedicate to his mother, father and father-in-law,
who all passed away in the past two years.
“The
last two years have been very difficult for me personally. I lost my
mother and father last year and then my father in-in-law passed away
last week so it would mean a lot for me to be able to win for them and
to dedicate it to them.
“It would take a lot of pressure off me to be able to do that because it feels to me the right thing to do.
“I
am feeling good on the golf course. I don’t think I have ever shot 65
two days in a row and everything has been working well. I suppose
everything has to work well to make two scores like this.
“I
am excited about the weekend and trying to keep doing exactly the same
things as I have been doing for the past two days. If I can do that then
I have a great chance to win again.”
Wiesberger,
who has returned to Gleneagles for the first time since he was part of
the five man play-off to decide the winner in 2011, when Thomas Björn
took the title.
In the two years since that
disappointing end to an otherwise great week, Wiesberger has matured
into one of the most promising talents in world golf, winning twice in
Korea and Austria.
Asked
if would take a final score of 22 under par after his second round 66,
the 27 year old replied: “No, I can go lower than that. I'm trying my
best to improve all the time and it is getting better with every step of
the way. I had
to learn the tough way – losing here in a playoff a couple years ago, I
tried to feed off that, and the last couple years have gone pretty
well.”
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
+Scores of 141 and better qualified for
the third and fourth rounds
Par 144 (2x72)
+Scores of 141 and better qualified for
the third and fourth rounds
130 R Gonzalez (Arg) 65 65,
131 B Wiesberger (Aut) 65 66,
133 M Foster (Eng) 66 67, T Fleetwood (Eng) 68 65,
134 B Koepka (USA) 68 66,
135 F Andersson Hed (Swe) 68 67, T Jaidee (Tha) 66 69, B Rumford (Aus) 66 69,
136 G Havret (Fra) 67 69, F Molinari (Ita) 69 67, C Lee (Sco) 69 67, O Fisher (Eng) 66 70,
137
R Ramsay (Sco) 69 68, A Quiros (Esp) 70 67, S Henry (Sco) 72 65, P
Lawrie (Sco) 70 67, E Grillo (Arg) 71 66, J Parry (Eng) 71 66,
138
P Lawrie (Irl) 71 67, T Lewis (Eng) 67 71, S Lowry (Irl) 68 70, E
Pepperell (Eng) 72 66, R Fisher (Eng) 66 72, D Horsey (Eng) 70 68, G
Maybin (Nir) 68 70, C Doak (Sco) 69 69, D Drysdale (Sco) 71 67, P
Waring (Eng) 75 63,
139
M Nixon (Eng) 68 71, M Wiegele (Aut) 69 70, P McGinley (Irl) 68 71, S
Dyson (Eng) 72 67, J Lagergren (Swe) 68 71, J Sjöholm (Swe) 68 71, D
Fichardt (RSA) 69 70, G Bourdy (Fra) 68 71, I Garrido (Esp) 66 73, A
Hansen (Den) 70 69,
S Gallacher (Sco) 71 68, T Olesen (Den) 71 68, M Both (Aus) 69 70, M
Lundberg (Swe) 70 69,
140
G Boyd (Eng) 71 69, J Campillo (Esp) 69 71, M Baldwin (Eng) 70 70, R
Jacquelin (Fra) 69 71, M Hoey (Nir) 68 72, R Cabrera-Bello (Esp) 71 69,
M Tullo (Chi) 69 71, E De La Riva (Esp) 68 72, G Stal (Fra) 69 71, M
Korhonen (Fin)
71 69, R Finch (Eng) 73 67, S Hansen (Den) 69 71, M Madsen (Den) 70
70, M Southgate (Eng) 72 68, A Sullivan (Eng) 67 73,
141
S Thornton (Irl) 74 67, G Wright (Wal) 69 72, L Jensen (Den) 70 71, R
Santos (Por) 69 72, S Wakefield (Eng) 70 71, E Kofstad (Nor) 71 70, A
Levy (Fra) 70 71, M Jonzon (Swe) 71 70, D Willett (Eng) 72 69, N
Fenwick (Sco) 75 66,
A Snobeck (Fra) 72 69, J Olazábal (Esp) 73 68, D Howell (Eng) 71 70, T
Levet (Fra) 71 70, J Morrison (Eng) 72 69
MISSED THE CUT
MISSED THE CUT
142
M Lampert (Ger) 70 72, B Stone (RSA) 71 71, R Green (Aus) 71 71, C
Paisley (Eng) 71 71, M Brier (Aut) 67 75, C Lloyd (Eng) 71 71, K
Broberg (Swe) 67 75, R Wattel (Fra) 70 72, P Larrazábal (Esp) 70 72, G
Murray (Sco) 72 70, O Floren
(Swe) 72 70, G Robertson (am) (Sco) 72 70,
143
P Hedblom (Swe) 73 70, S Arnold (Aus) 75 68, M Carlsson (Swe) 73 70, G
Lockerbie (Eng) 74 69, J Edfors (Swe) 73 70, M Warren (Sco) 71 72, B
Åkesson (Swe) 72 71, A Hartø (Den) 74 69, G Shaw (Nir) 74 69, A
Marshall (Eng) 72 71,
L Slattery (Eng) 72 71, A Tadini (Ita) 74 69,
144 A Kaleka (Fra) 74 70, G
Hutcheon (Sco) 72 72, S O'Hara (Sco) 73 71, S Kjeldsen (Den) 69 75, C
Del Moral (Esp) 76 68, D Brooks (Eng) 74 70, S Chowrasia (Ind) 71 73,
145
P Whiteford (Sco) 74 71, T Van Der Walt (RSA) 70 75, D McGrane (Irl) 70
75, E Goya (Arg) 72 73, R Coles (Eng) 73 72, P Uihlein (USA) 73 72, R
Karlberg (Swe) 72 73, M Lafeber (Ned) 72 73, S Dodd (Wal) 74 71, M
Tunnicliff (Eng) 74
71, J Lara (Esp) 73 72, P Erofejeff (Fin) 72 73, K Horne (RSA) 70 75,
146
T Björn (Den) 72 74, J Kingston (RSA) 71 75, S Jamieson (Sco) 72 74, M
Kieffer (Ger) 74 72, S Little (Eng) 71 75, J Hansen (Den) 74 72, M
Delpodio (Ita) 74 72, J Quesne (Fra) 76 70, S Webster (Eng) 76 70, C
Macaulay (Sco) 75
71, A Forsyth (Sco) 71 75, C Cévaër (Fra) 72 74,
147
A Dodt (Aus) 73 74, W Booth (Sco) 78 69, C Kelly (Sco) 77 70, A
Cañizares (Esp) 72 75, R Rock (Eng) 77 70, D Stewart (Sco) 72 75, S
Hend (Aus) 71 76, P Price (Wal) 70 77, D Higgins (Irl) 72 75, J Singh
(Ind) 72 75,
148
D Patrick (Sco) 77 71, G Storm (Eng) 77 71, S Benson (Eng) 74 74, P
McKechnie (Sco) 73 75, H Porteous (RSA) 73 75, A Culverwell (am) (Sco)
73 75,
149 S Henderson (Sco) 75 74, R Bland (Eng) 75 74, D Orr (Sco) 75 74,
150 M Campbell (Nzl) 76 74, J Walters (RSA) 74 76, R McEvoy (Eng) 72 78,
151 N Fasth (Swe) 77 74,
152 P Gal (Cze) 76 76,
154 L Gagli (Ita) 79 75, F Zanotti (Par) 75 79,
156 J Gonnet (Fra) 78 78,
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