Luke Joy
Joy for Luke as he shares second-round
lead on MENA Tour
RIYADH — England’s Luke Joy fired a
course-record 64 to join Gabriel Canizares atop the leaderboard heading into
the final round of the MENA Golf Tour’s American Express Dirab Golf
Championship on Tuesday.
Starting the day, a good four shots behind,
Joy rattled off one eagle and seven birdies, including five on the front nine,
against a lone bogey to reach nine-under for the tournament along with joint
overnight leader Gabriel Canizares of Spain, who carded a second round 70.
England’s Craig Hinton, who shared the
opening day’s lead with Canizares, sits alone in second place a further shot
adrift as Spain’s Mariano Ochoa and Thriston Arthur Lawrence of South Africa
moved into a tie for the fourth at six-under, one shot ahead of England’s
talented amateur James Allan.
It was Joy, a two-time winner on the MENA
Golf Tour who made the biggest charge of the day, putting himself in pole
position for a shot at the title. A change of putter did the trick for the
Englishman as he started with a great birdie at the first which kind of set the
tone for his almost a flawless round.
“Of all the seven birdies, the one on the
first was quite pleasing as I holed a nice putt from 20 feet,” said Joy, who
bettered the previous course record of a 66 jointly held by Pakistan Shafiq
Masih, Craig Smith of Wales and Ian Keenan of England.
LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES
LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Par 144 (2x72)
135 Luke Joy (England) 71 64; Gabriel
Canizares (Spain) 65 70
136 Craig Hinton (England) 65 71
138 Mariano Ochoa (Spain) 70 68;
Lawrence Thriston (South Africa) 70 68
139 James Allan (England) (amateur) 68 71
140 Xavier Puig (Spain) 69 71; Sixto
Casabona-Navarro (Spain) 71 69; Elliott Oxlade (England) (am) 69 71; Carlos
Balmaseda (Spain) 73 67
142 Joe Heraty (England) 73 69; Chris
McDonnell (England) 70 72; Fredrik Lindblom (Sweden) 71 71
143 Shafiq Masih (Pakistan) 72 71; Ayoub
Lguirati (Morocco) 69 74
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