Seoul, May 3: Anirban Lahiri endured a disastrous second day with a card of 7-over 79 in the second round of Liv Korea at the Jack Nicklaus course. It was a massive drop of 11 shots from his first round of 68.
With 4-under in the first round and 7-over in the second, he slipped to 4-over and was Tied-43rd, down from T-26.
Starting from the second hole, Lahiri had a very strange up-and-down round. After a bogey on the fourth hole Lahiri landed three birdies in a row from the sixth to the eighth. Then came a collapse as he double bogeyed Par-4 ninth and triple bogeyed Par-4 10th. After a par on the 11th, he suffered another double bogey on the 12th. That meant he had dropped seven shots in a space of four holes. Further bogeys on the 17th and the 18th saw him fall further.
Lahiri’s teammate in the Crushers team, Bryson DeChambeau had another superb round to rise to the top of the leaderboard. DeChambeau, who shot 7-under 65 in the first round to be the joint leader, added a 6-under 66 to get to 13-under and occupied the sole lead position.
DeChambeau was four shots ahead of second placed Richard Bland (66-69) at 9-under, while four players, Talor Gooch, the overnight co-leader, Charles Howell III, Dean Burmester and Jason Kokrak were tied for the third place at 8-under each.
Carlos Ortiz and Louis Oosthuizen were tied for seventh place at 7-under.
In the team standings, Smash Golf Club lead with 21-under with scores of 10-under and 11-under on the two days. They are led by Brooks Koepka and other members are Gooch, Kokrak and Graeme McDowell.
Torque, Range Goats and Crushers are tied second at 15-under, six behind the leaders.
Lahiri cards 4-under 68 to be fifth in Liv Korea as Bryson is in shared lead
