Lucas Bjerregaard and Shubhankar Sharma. Filepic
St. Andrews, Scotland, Aug 7: Shubhankar Sharma repeated his first round score of 5-under 67 in the second round to get to double digits at 10-undeer and was lying Tied-8th after 36 holes in the Hero Open.
Sharma, who had six birdies and a bogey in the first round did the same again in the second round, which was incomplete on Friday. Sharma, who had played only five holes on Friday, played the remaining 13 on Saturday.
At 10-under he was Tied-6th but five shots behind Lucas Bjerregaard holds the halfway lead after carding a ten under par 62 at the second round of the Hero Open.
Round 2 had been suspended on Friday evening due to darkness after play had been delayed due to heavy rain on Friday morning.
It was however a mixed day for the other four Indians, as only Gaganjeet Bhullar (76-67) and SSP Chawrasia (76-67) made the cut on the line at 1-under and in Tied-60th place. Ajeetesh Sandhu (77-67) and Shiv Kapur. (72-73) missed the cut.
Sharma had birdies on first, ninth, 10th, 16th and 18th and his only dropped shot came on 12th.
Bjerregaard, whose last victory was on Scottish soil at the 2018 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, made the turn at Fairmont St Andrews in four under par, and produced a blistering back nine which saw him card six consecutive birdies from the third to the eighth as he signed for a 15 under par total and a two-stroke lead.
Scotsman Calum Hill, who led after 18 holes, leads the home charge after carding a four under par 68 to move to 13 under. He’s one stroke ahead of Santiago Tarrio of Spain and South Africa’s Justin Walters.
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