DP World Tour : BMW Australian PGA Championship Leaderboard Tee Times
Kazuma Kobori birdied the final four holes of his second round to claim a one-shot clubhouse lead at the BMW Australian PGA Championship before play was suspended due to fading light.
The New Zealander, who is full of confidence after his rookie DP World Tour campaign culminated in him reaching the DP World Tour Championship earlier this month, carded nine birdies and a solitary bogey in an -8 63 to reach -10 through his opening 36 holes.
Australian pair Anthony Quayle 66, and Brett Rankin 69, along with China’s Wenyi Ding 66, are one shot adrift at -9 heading into the weekend at Royal Queensland GC.
After the opening day was halted by lightning, seven groups will resume rd2 at 6am local time to complete their second rounds with the cut projected to fall at -2
It was a day of low scoring in breezy but sunny conditions in Brisbane, with first-round leader Sebastian Garcia the only player in the top 30 on the leaderboard at the end of play to be over par for his second round.
Kobori, who made a hole-in-one in an opening 69 on Thursday, made a pair of back-to-back birdies on his front nine, initially at the second and third before closing out his front nine with gains at the eighth and ninth.
A fifth birdie of the round soon followed at the 12th, and while he dropped a shot at the 14th for the second day in a row, the 24-year-old responded in fine fashion as his putter continuously served him well down the stretch.
"I am pretty happy for the most part," he said.
"Yesterday was a bit frustrating. I had a hole-in-one but didn't do much a part from that but I made up for that today which was good.
"The wind dropped off quite nicely so I knew coming in, 15, 16 and 17 were quite good opportunities because I knew I had wedges in my hands so I hit a few close and was able to birdie 18 as well which was a nice bonus."
Min Woo Lee 66, the 2023 BMW PGA Championship winner, headlines a quartet of players two shots back at -8, alongside Portugal's Ricardo Gouveia 65, France's Tom Vaillant 64,and countryman Christopher Wood after a 66.
Defending champion Elvis Smylie is set to make the cut on the number -2 after a battling level-par 71 that included four birdies and as many bogeys, but two-time Australian PGA Championship winner Cam Smith will miss the weekend after a 75.
edit>>> Rookie Canadian Sudarshan Yellamaraju continued his fine debut T31 69 69 -4, however his veteran countryman Aaron Cockerill most recently a brilliant T2 at DP World Tour Final stage, must have left his game on the 13 hour flight to Brisbane from Dubai, made too many bogey's 72 73 T124 +3 to miss the weekend.
He is listed in the field for next week's Crown Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
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