DP World Tour : Hero Dubai Desert Classic Leaderboard Tee Times
Cameron Young will take a three-shot lead into the weekend at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic after firing a stunning 64 on day two at Emirates Golf Club.
The World Number 25 is making his debut at this event but has made himself right at home, carding 14 birdies and an eagle over the first two rounds to get to -13
That includes a remarkable run of scoring after being level par after his first 12 holes of the week, picking up 14 shots in his next 22 to fly up the leaderboard.
Pole Adrian Meronk 66 -10 and England's Andy Sullivan 67 -10 were the nearest challengers with Danish twins Nicolai 69 and Rasmus Højgaard 70 and Scotland's Richie Ramsay 68 at -7
edit ** Canada's Aaron Cockerill began his round on the 1st tee with back to back birdies then bogey's at the 4th and 6th out in even par 35. However after few near misses on Thursday he caught fire at the turn with 4 birdies and a 75 foot eagle putt at the 13th back in 32. He surges up 21 places and sits T7 71 67 -6 his best start of this 2024 season.
Saturday : 1218 1st Aaron Cockerill, Louis de Jager
Young has two runner-up finishes on the DP World Tour at the 2022 Open Championship and 2023 WGC - Dell Technologies Match Play to go with four more on the PGA TOUR but has yet to add to his two Korn Ferry Tour victories from 2021.
A Rolex Series triumph would be a spectacular way to return to the winner's circle and the 26-year-old believes the putter was key to getting him in pole position.
"I putted fantastic," he said. "I made a couple of long ones yesterday and then made a few more today that had no right going in.
"I hit a bunch of good putts but just one of those days where you kind of have a couple of 30-footers and you look up and they are going right in the middle, which doesn't happen all that often to have a bunch of them in one round.
"I'm doing a really good job of staying out of my own way. I kind of realised it was going well early but the back nine, at the same time, it feels like you should do that to some extent, especially in the morning with not much wind.
"I feel like the back nine, I just played really solidly, and then made a putt on one, made a putt on four and all of a sudden that was eight (under) or something.
"Just one of those days that they kept kind of going in and I didn't make too many mistakes."
Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald made the sixth hole-in-one of the season and second of his DP World career when he holed an eight iron from 183 yards on the fourth in his 71.
Notables : Rory McIlroy T24 71 70 -3. Tommy Fleetwood T15 69 70 -5, Tyrrell Hatton T37 74 68 -2. The cut fell at E.
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