August 13-16
The Celtic Manor Resort, City of Newport, Wales
โฌ1,000,000
Round 1, Round 3. Round 4
England's Sam Horsfield is in pole position to claim his second European Tour title in the space of three weeks after a roller-coaster finish to day two of the Celtic Classic.
Horsfield, who won the Hero Open at Hanbury Manor a fortnight ago, holed a bunker shot for a birdie on the 16th, ran up a triple bogey on the 17th and then eagled the last at Celtic Manor in a second round of 64.
At 11 under par, the Florida-based 23-year-old holds a one-shot lead over Belgium's Thomas Pieters, with Andrew Johnston, Callum Shinkwin and Thomas Detry another stroke adrift on nine under.
The perfect bunker shot by @hr59sam.
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His 9th birdie of the day. 🔥#CelticClassic #GolfForGood pic.twitter.com/EdKT57lGxv
Speaking about his five-wood approach to the 18th, Horsfield said: "It's funny, we had the exact same number into 17 at Forest of Arden when I won so I hit the exact same shot and made the putt for eagle.
"The 17th was not great but I bounced back after that triple to get myself into a good position for tomorrow. I've been in contention, I know what the feelings are like and I'm really looking forward to it."
Overnight leader Pieters, who is playing his first event for five months due to the coronavirus pandemic and the birth of his first child in July, added a 68 to his opening 64 despite finding the water with his approach to the 18th.
Johnston recovered from a nightmare start to his second round to add a 66 to his opening 67 thanks to a blistering finish at the 2010 Ryder Cup venue.
The 31-year-old ran up a triple-bogey seven on the first and dropped another shot on the fifth, but then birdied three of the next four holes and covered the back nine in just 29 shots with an eagle and four more birdies.
+4 after 5 holes.@BeefGolf fights back. ✍️#CelticClassic #GolfForGood
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"Yesterday (Thursday) evening I wasn't happy the way I was hitting the ball, spent an hour and a half on the range and just said to myself, 'I've tried everything let's just play and see what happens,'" Johnston said.
"If I play good, great, if I don't so be it. I know I'm doing the right things, it's just a matter of patience that just freed me up and let me play.
"It's still not quite right. Sometimes you can not play your best and score really well but I don't want to rest on that, I want to improve on the weekend with my ball-striking."
Shinkwin, who collapsed to a closing 81 in the English Championship on Sunday, carded seven birdies and one bogey in a 65 and said: "I'm very happy to be fair.
"I had a bit of a bad round last week on the Sunday and my game just went wrong. I had a couple of days off to recover and on Wednesday I was just working hard on my game. I did everything that I needed to do correctly, everything went right and I didn't really make any poor swings either."
Pos. |
Player | To Par |
R1 |
R2 |
Total |
1 |
Sam Horsfield | -11 |
67 |
64 |
131 |
2 |
Thomas Pieters | -10 |
64 |
68 |
132 |
T3 |
Thomas Detry | -9 |
67 |
66 |
133 |
T3 |
Andrew Johnston | -9 |
67 |
66 |
133 |
T3 |
Callum Shinkwin | -9 |
68 |
65 |
133 |
T6 |
Jonathan Caldwell | -8 |
68 |
66 |
134 |
T6 |
Sean Crocker | -8 |
68 |
66 |
134 |
T6 |
Matthew Jordan | -8 |
68 |
66 |
134 |
T6 |
Jake McLeod | -8 |
65 |
69 |
134 |
T10 |
Ignacio Elvira Mijares | -7 |
66 |
69 |
135 |
T10 |
Rhys Enoch | -7 |
69 |
66 |
135 |
T10 |
Sebastian Soderberg | -7 |
66 |
69 |
135 |
T10 |
Connor Syme | -7 |
68 |
67 |
135 |
T14 |
Wil Besseling | -6 |
67 |
69 |
136 |
T14 |
John Catlin | -6 |
68 |
68 |
136 |
T14 |
Sihwan Kim | -6 |
66 |
70 |
136 |
T14 |
Guido Migliozzi | -6 |
66 |
70 |
136 |
T14 |
Adrian Otaegui | -6 |
69 |
67 |
136 |
T14 |
Jordan Smith | -6 |
68 |
68 |
136 |
T20 |
Lorenzo Gagli | -5 |
67 |
70 |
137 |
T20 |
Adrian Meronk | -5 |
66 |
71 |
137 |
T20 |
James Morrison | -5 |
67 |
70 |
137 |
T20 |
Wilco Nienaber | -5 |
70 |
67 |
137 |
T20 |
Aaron Rai | -5 |
67 |
70 |
137 |
T20 |
Matthew Southgate | -5 |
67 |
70 |
137 |
T26 |
Calum Hill | -4 |
70 |
68 |
138 |
T26 |
Francesco Laporta | -4 |
69 |
69 |
138 |
T26 |
Oscar Lengden | -4 |
69 |
69 |
138 |
T26 |
Edoardo Molinari | -4 |
66 |
72 |
138 |
T26 |
Jason Scrivener | -4 |
69 |
69 |
138 |
T26 |
Cormac Sharvin | -4 |
71 |
67 |
138 |
T26 |
Joel Sjoholm | -4 |
68 |
70 |
138 |
T26 |
Scott Vincent | -4 |
69 |
69 |
138 |
T26 |
Marc Warren | -4 |
66 |
72 |
138 |
T35 |
Maverick Antcliff | -3 |
68 |
71 |
139 |
T35 |
Steven Brown | -3 |
67 |
72 |
139 |
T35 |
Dean Burmester | -3 |
71 |
68 |
139 |
T35 |
Aaron Cockerill | -3 |
70 |
69 |
139 |
T35 |
Louis De Jager | -3 |
71 |
68 |
139 |
T35 |
Gavin Kyle Green | -3 |
70 |
69 |
139 |
T35 |
Sebastian Heisele | -3 |
69 |
70 |
139 |
T35 |
David Horsey | -3 |
68 |
71 |
139 |
T35 |
Maximilian Kieffer | -3 |
69 |
70 |
139 |
T35 |
Damien Perrier | -3 |
70 |
69 |
139 |
T35 |
Jack Senior | -3 |
69 |
70 |
139 |
T35 |
Martin Simonsen | -3 |
68 |
71 |
139 |
T35 |
Sami Välimäki | -3 |
71 |
68 |
139 |
T35 |
Justin Walters | -3 |
70 |
69 |
139 |
T35 |
Dale Whitnell | -3 |
72 |
67 |
139 |
T50 |
Nino Bertasio | -2 |
71 |
69 |
140 |
T50 |
Ashley Chesters | -2 |
72 |
68 |
140 |
T50 |
Nicolas Colsaerts | -2 |
67 |
73 |
140 |
T50 |
Jamie Donaldson | -2 |
70 |
70 |
140 |
T50 |
Oliver Farr | -2 |
73 |
67 |
140 |
T50 |
Ross Fisher | -2 |
72 |
68 |
140 |
T50 |
Grant Forrest | -2 |
72 |
68 |
140 |
T50 |
Ryan Fox | -2 |
69 |
71 |
140 |
T50 |
Justin Harding | -2 |
69 |
71 |
140 |
T50 |
Scott Hend | -2 |
75 |
65 |
140 |
T50 |
Søren Kjeldsen | -2 |
70 |
70 |
140 |
T50 |
Ross McGowan | -2 |
70 |
70 |
140 |
T50 |
Ben Stow | -2 |
68 |
72 |
140 |
T50 |
Toby Tree | -2 |
65 |
75 |
140 |
T50 |
Min Woo Lee | -2 |
69 |
71 |
140 |
56 |
Romain Wattel | E |
|||
T65 |
Adri Arnaus | -1 |
73 |
68 |
141 |
T65 |
Alexander Björk | -1 |
71 |
70 |
141 |
T65 |
Rikard Karlberg | -1 |
73 |
68 |
141 |
T65 |
Jacques Kruyswijk | -1 |
70 |
71 |
141 |
T65 |
Pablo Larrazabal | -1 |
70 |
71 |
141 |
T65 |
Thorbjørn Olesen | -1 |
71 |
70 |
141 |
T65 |
Carlos Pigem | -1 |
70 |
71 |
141 |
T65 |
Bernd Ritthammer | -1 |
71 |
70 |
141 |
T65 |
Shubhankar Sharma | -1 |
71 |
70 |
141 |
T65 |
Andy Sullivan | -1 |
70 |
71 |
141 |
T65 |
Julian Suri | -1 |
72 |
69 |
141 |
T76 |
Michael Campbell | E |
71 |
71 |
142 |
T76 |
Dave Coupland | E |
67 |
75 |
142 |
T76 |
Jens Fahrbring | E |
70 |
72 |
142 |
T76 |
Joost Luiten | E |
72 |
70 |
142 |
T76 |
Richie Ramsay | E |
69 |
73 |
142 |
T76 |
Lee Slattery | E |
71 |
71 |
142 |
T82 |
Eduardo De la Riva | 1 |
72 |
71 |
143 |
T82 |
Mathieu Fenasse (a) | 1 |
71 |
72 |
143 |
T82 |
Chris Paisley | 1 |
72 |
71 |
143 |
T82 |
Renato Paratore | 1 |
74 |
69 |
143 |
T82 |
Robin Roussel | 1 |
70 |
73 |
143 |
T82 |
Antoine Rozner | 1 |
72 |
71 |
143 |
T82 |
Clement Sordet | 1 |
72 |
71 |
143 |
T89 |
Emilio Cuartero Blanco | 2 |
69 |
75 |
144 |
T89 |
Bryce Easton | 2 |
70 |
74 |
144 |
T89 |
Oliver Fisher | 2 |
70 |
74 |
144 |
T89 |
Anton Karlsson | 2 |
69 |
75 |
144 |
T89 |
Kurt Kitayama | 2 |
70 |
74 |
144 |
T89 |
Jbe Kruger | 2 |
70 |
74 |
144 |
T89 |
Garrick Porteous | 2 |
75 |
69 |
144 |
T89 |
Kristoffer Reitan | 2 |
71 |
73 |
144 |
T89 |
Lorenzo Scalise | 2 |
71 |
73 |
144 |
T89 |
Brandon Stone | 2 |
71 |
73 |
144 |
T89 |
Nicolai Von Dellingshausen | 2 |
70 |
74 |
144 |
T100 |
Stephen Dodd | 3 |
75 |
70 |
145 |
T100 |
Nicolai Højgaard | 3 |
70 |
75 |
145 |
T100 |
Niklas Lemke | 3 |
74 |
71 |
145 |
T100 |
Gavin Moynihan | 3 |
74 |
71 |
145 |
T104 |
Lucas Bjerregaard | 4 |
78 |
68 |
146 |
T104 |
Scott Jamieson | 4 |
71 |
75 |
146 |
T104 |
Liam Johnston | 4 |
77 |
69 |
146 |
T104 |
Zander Lombard | 4 |
69 |
77 |
146 |
T104 |
Benjamin Poke | 4 |
74 |
72 |
146 |
T104 |
JC Ritchie | 4 |
75 |
71 |
146 |
T104 |
Oliver Wilson | 4 |
77 |
69 |
146 |
T111 |
Marcus Armitage | 5 |
75 |
72 |
147 |
T111 |
Jorge Campillo | 5 |
72 |
75 |
147 |
T111 |
Alejandro Cañizares | 5 |
78 |
69 |
147 |
T111 |
Masahiro Kawamura | 5 |
70 |
77 |
147 |
T111 |
Alvaro Quiros | 5 |
70 |
77 |
147 |
T116 |
Matthew Baldwin | 6 |
73 |
75 |
148 |
T116 |
Richard Bland | 6 |
75 |
73 |
148 |
T116 |
Laurie Canter | 6 |
74 |
74 |
148 |
T116 |
Ben Evans | 6 |
76 |
72 |
148 |
T116 |
Stephen Gallacher | 6 |
73 |
75 |
148 |
T116 |
Haydn Porteous | 6 |
73 |
75 |
148 |
T122 |
Paul McGinley | 7 |
75 |
74 |
149 |
T122 |
Johannes Veerman | 7 |
72 |
77 |
149 |
T124 |
Steven Tiley | 8 |
75 |
75 |
150 |
T124 |
Darius van Driel | 8 |
75 |
75 |
150 |
T126 |
David Howell | 9 |
80 |
71 |
151 |
T126 |
Marcel Schneider | 9 |
72 |
79 |
151 |
T126 |
Lars van Meijel | 9 |
75 |
76 |
151 |
129 |
Andrew Palmer | 10 |
75 |
77 |
152 |
130 |
Andrea Pavan | 19 |
79 |
82 |
161 |
131 |
Zach Murray | 24 |
79 |
87 |
166 |
WD |
Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez | 6 |
75 |
75 |