DP World Tour : Hero Indian Open Tee Times Leaderboard
Thursday's gloomy overcast muggy day in New Delhi has been replaced with sunshine and very little breeze today, ideal scoring conditions on this very difficult tricky DLF Golf and Country Club.
Last year's winner Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra has the 36 hole clubhouse lead 67 69 -8.
South African Casey Jarvis, arguably the best player on this tour so far with two wins and a runner up, continues his fine form, 2nd 73, 64 -7
The cut is understandably high at +4, allowing the headliner Akshay Bhatia, the stringbean American lefty, winner of the AP Invitational this year, owgr #22 who played a wrong ball on his way to an opening 77, to climb back into the weekend, currently T41 through 11 holes today.
He is playing here to pay homage to his Indian roots, in honour of his grandparents.
Canada's Aaron Cockerill said earlier this week on his Instagram that this course would be playing tough. Well, with an opening 81 he is already +5 through 8 holes today or +14 in 26 holes !! Yikes..
The Spaniard, who on Thursday referred to last year's win as "a week that changed my life", reached -8 to lead by one stroke from playing partner Casey Jarvis in his bid for a repeat performance.
" Like I said at the start of the week, I think the good vibes when I got here, the good memories came up and when I'm having fun playing golf, I already proved I'm one of the best players in the world."
Jarvis' 64 -7 total, was the best round of the week so far as, chasing his third DP World Tour win already this season, he recorded nine birdies and just a solitary bogey round the formidable DLF G&CC in New Delhi.
Fellow South African MJ Daffue was a shot further back in third -6, with first-round leader Freddy Schott -5 after a battling 73.
The German was alongside Alex Fitzpatrick and Jacob Skov Olesen, two of the 29 players still to complete their second rounds due to an earlier delay for lightning in the area.
Round 2 will resume 7.15am local, round 3 will begin 10am off split tees #1 and #10
Canada's Aaron Cockerill shot 81 on Thursday and after a 44 first nine including 6 straight bogey's this morning he retired
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