Well it had to happen, Swedish golfer Pelle Edberg who has been the butt of jokes through the week at the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open after he called his Glaswegian caddie at 0430 on the eve of the championship - having been a late entrant - to ask how to get from Edinburgh to Aberdeen!
His travel agent in Sweden booked him into Aberdeen instead of Gullane with his flight from Gothanberg landing first in Edinburgh. Aberdeen is a 3 hour drive north, Gullane is just 45 minutes south. He shot 73 69 to miss the cut at +2. The cut fell at -2.
Speaking of missing the cut, England's Daniel Brooks ranked 528th, has only made 4 cuts all year and has missed the last 13 in a row, feels he has played better than that recently and like most of the field is taking advantage of the unusually warm, sunny calm weather to shoot 64 65 to get to -11, 129 for a 3 shot lead over some more well known names going into this weekend.
The wind is going to pick up a little over the next two days https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=weather+for+gullane+golf+club, enough to get their attention, but nothing serious.
Defending champion Justin Rose and his Ryder Cup team-mate Graeme McDowell were among those sharing second on eight under, along with Swede Johan Carlsson, Ireland’s Shane Lowry, American Ryan Palmer and Englishman Matthew Nixon.
Phil Mickelson, who won the 2013 Open a mile away at Muirfield, was in danger of missing the halfway cut but closed with a hat-trick of birdies from the 14th to finish three under, 83 players have made the cut.
The lowest round of the day belonged to Dutchman Joost Luiten, an amazing 63 to match Thorbjørn Olesen’s opening effort, but bad news for Olesen who shot 77 yesterday to miss the cut !
Rickie Fowler and Matt Kuchar are both -6 66, 68.
I am watching this young Argentinian Emiliano Grillo who is a shot better 66 67 -7. He is brilliant and has had several chances to break through on the European Tour, it's only a matter of time until he wins.
Bryan (notes from europeantour.com)
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