Olympic Men’s Golf Competition R2

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2
July 29 – August 01
Kasumigaseki CC, Saitama, Japan
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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American Xander Schauffele leads by one shot in the storm-delayed second round at Kasumigaseki Country Club.

He produced six birdies, two eagles at the par-4 6th and the par-5 14th as well as two bogeys to sign for a 63 and reach 11-under before play was suspended for the day.

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2

“I just got in a nice flow there at the end. Kind of one of those situations where I wish I could play some more holes. It was nice to make that last putt on 18 before the they blew that horn.

“The almost two and a half hour delay during the middle of the day here, it is what it is, everyone had to deal with it, some people had a delay yesterday and today so fortunately I’ve only had one delay and potentially we’ll have more throughout the week. I bogeyed my first hole coming out of the delay, wasn’t in a great spot and was able to make a birdie quickly right after to sort of settle the ship. So yeah, happy with how I finished.”

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2

Mexican Carlos Ortiz lies one shot behind after a second round 67 featuring four birdies, an eagle at the 6th and two bogeys.

Masters champion and local favourite Hideki Matsuyama, with two holes left to play, lies in third alongside Chilean Mito Pereira, overnight leader Austrian Sepp Straka and Swede Alex Noren.

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2

“It feels like the first time I actually played for the country,” said Noren. “Even World Cup you play for your partner, you play for the Federation, you play for the golfers in Sweden. And now, I mean, if somebody wins fencing or swimming, everybody wants those medals and I think it’s a cool thing.

“The longer the tournament goes it feels more like the Olympics. Coming into the weekend, it’s kind of like a weird tournament because the only thing that matters are the medals. I think it’s cool to have a tournament like this and being such a big tournament. Usually you play for points, somebody needs their card, somebody wants to advance into the finals, somebody needs this and this and all of a sudden it’s like top three, otherwise it’s not much worth.”

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2

Ireland’s Shane Lowry (65) and Rory McIlroy (66) reached 7-under to tie for seventh place alongside Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond and Great Britain’s Paul Casey who still has two holes to play.

“You’re trying to spur each other on and between us we’re definitely trying to produce at least one medal for the team,” said 2019 Open Champion Lowry.

“I would like to see Rory do well, because we’re Team Ireland. But it’s different Sunday afternoon if you’re out there playing against each other you want to beat each other. My number one motivation, it’s not to come here and enjoy the Olympics – obviously I am enjoying it – but my ultimate goal is to bring a medal home.”

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2

“I’ve obviously never competed in an Olympic games,” added McIlroy. “I watched them from afar, but I said this yesterday, being a part of something that’s completely different and bigger than me and even our sport in general, that’s a pretty cool thing. So I didn’t know if this was going to be my only Olympics that I play or whatever and I’m already looking forward to Paris (in 2024).”

2020 Olympics – Men’s R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	Thru	Rd	R1	R2	Total
1	Xander Schauffele	-11	F	-8	68	63	131
2	Carlos Ortiz	-10	F	-4	65	67	132
T3	Mito Pereira	-8	F	-6	69	65	134
T3	Alex Noren	-8	F	-4	67	67	134
T3	Sepp Straka	-8	F	E	63	71	134
T3	Hideki Matsuyama	-8	16	-6	69		69
T7	Jazz Janewattananond	-7	F	E	64	71	135
T7	Rory McIlroy	-7	F	-5	69	66	135
T7	Shane Lowry	-7	F	-6	70	65	135
T7	Paul Casey	-7	17	-3	67		67
T11	Rory Sabbatini	-6	F	-4	69	67	136
T11	Jhonattan Vegas	-6	F	-1	66	70	136
T11	Sebastián Muñoz	-6	F	-2	67	69	136
T11	Guido Migliozzi	-6	F	-6	71	65	136
T15	Thomas Detry	-5	F	-4	70	67	137
T15	Viktor Hovland	-5	F	-2	68	69	137
T15	Adri Arnaus	-5	F	-2	68	69	137
T15	Antoine Rozner	-5	F	-2	68	69	137
T15	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-5	17	-2	68		68
T20	Cameron Smith	-4	F	-4	71	67	138
T20	Matthias Schwab	-4	F	-2	69	69	138
T20	Abraham Ancer	-4	F	-2	69	69	138
T20	Anirban Lahiri	-4	16	E	67		67
T20	Yechun Yuan	-4	15	-2	69		69
T25	Romain Langasque	-3	F	-1	69	70	139
T25	Si Woo Kim	-3	F	E	68	71	139
T25	Collin Morikawa	-3	F	-1	69	70	139
T25	Patrick Reed	-3	F	E	68	71	139
T25	Tommy Fleetwood	-3	F	-2	70	69	139
T25	Juvic Pagunsan	-3	F	2	66	73	139
T25	Rikuya Hoshino	-3	F	-3	71	68	139
T25	Joachim B Hansen	-3	F	2	66	73	139
T25	Joaquin Niemann	-3	17	-2	70		70
T34	Fabrizio Zanotti	-2	F	-4	73	67	140
T34	Scott Vincent	-2	F	-4	73	67	140
T34	Sami Valimaki	-2	F	-1	70	70	140
T34	Corey Conners	-2	16	E	69		69
T34	Hurly Long	-2	15	-1	70		70
T39	Renato Paratore	-1	F	-1	71	70	141
T39	Mackenzie Hughes	-1	F	1	69	72	141
T39	Rasmus Hojgaard	-1	F	-3	73	68	141
T39	Thomas Pieters	-1	F	5	65	76	141
T39	Henrik Norlander	-1	F	2	68	73	141
T39	Justin Thomas	-1	17	-1	71		71
T39	C.T. Pan	-1	15	-4	74		74
T39	Ryan Fox	-1	15	E	70		70
T47	Garrick Higgo	E	F	E	71	71	142
T47	Maximilian Kieffer	E	F	-2	73	69	142
T47	Kristian K. Johannessen	E	14	-1	72		72
T47	Gunn Charoenkul	E	14	E	71		71
T51	Kalle Samooja	+1	F	-3	75	68	143
T51	Sungjae Im	+1	F	2	70	73	143
T51	Ashun Wu	+1	F	E	72	71	143
T51	Marc Leishman	+1	16	2	70		70
T55	Gavin Kyle Green	+2	14	-1	74		74
T55	Adrian Meronk	+2	14	1	72		72
T57	Udayan Mane	+3	F	-2	76	69	145
T57	Jorge Campillo	+3	F	4	70	75	145