DP World Tour : BMW Australian PGA Championship Leaderboard
Elvis Smylie and Cam Smith led a strong home contingent to earn a one-shot lead after the delayed second round of the BMW Australian PGA Championship.
Heavy downpours at Royal Queensland Golf Club forced play to be abandoned on Friday, with the second round taking place in glorious sunshine on Saturday in the 54-hole tournament.
Smylie held the first round lead thanks to a hole out birdie on his last hole on Thursday and he followed suit with birdie at the 18th to join Smith at the summit.
The 150th Open Champion carded one of the lowest rounds of the day with a brilliant 65 which yielded seven birdies and one dropped shot to set the clubhouse target at -10 while Smylie mixed six gains and two bogeys in his 67 to top a leaderboard dominated by Australians at -10
Marc Leishman was their closest rival at -9 with only five non-Australian players sitting in the top 16. He carded eight birdies and three dropped shots in his 66, got to within one when he completed a hat-trick of birdies at the 17th to sit in solo third.
"It was nice," Smith said. "It was a bit better day today, which always puts a smile on your face and obviously the golf was pretty good as well.
"Started really solid and kind of kept it going the whole way through. Maybe a few kind of errant shots there at the end, but you kind of expect that throughout round of golf. So yeah, pretty solid, all in all.
Smylie began his round with a bogey before getting in the red numbers thanks to gains at the third, seventh and 12th. A bogey came at the 13th, but he responded with a birdie at the next before picking up shots at the 16th and 18th to join his fellow Australian at -10
"I finished really strong," Smylie said. "Birdie at 16 and then managed a really good two-putt on 17 from a tricky position. And then, had really nice wedge shot into the last and made a nice five footer for birdie.
"I think I saw I’m tied for lead, which is good. So I'm obviously in a good position heading into tomorrow.
South African Aldrich Potgieter made a blistering start with a birdie-birdie start and when he rolled in from five feet at the third for another three, he was leader at -7 then he picked up further shots at the fifth, seventh and ninth to reach the turn in a blemish-free 30 and sit three clear at -10. He made 2 bogey's coming in to finish at -8 alongside David Micheluzzi, while Englishman Matthew Southgate, Switzerland's Joel Girrbach and Ben Eccles were at -7
Spaniard Ivan Cantero and South African Ryan van Velzen sat one shot adrift -6, with six Australians; Jason Day, Cam Davis, Matias Sanchez, Lincoln Tighe, Harrison Crowe and Jack Buchanan.
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