Kenya Savannah Classic R2

Kenya Savannah Classic 2021 R2
March 18-21
Karen Country Club, Nairobi, Kenya
€1,000,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Daniel van Tonder eagled each of the three par fives at Karen Country Club as the South African moved into a one-stroke lead at the halfway point of the Kenya Savannah Classic supported by Absa.

The 30-year-old, who won four of his seven Sunshine Tour titles in the 2020 season, had ten threes on his card on day two in Nairobi – three of them birdies and three of them eagles – as a seven under par 64 added to his opening 65 for a 13 under par total.

Kenya Savannah Classic 2021 R2

That moved him to the front of the packed leaderboard at Karen Country Club, a short, classic golf course which has proven equally challenging for players of every playing style over both of the back-to-back events held there.

“It started from the tee shots. I hit three very good tee shots. On the sixth I hit driver and had 177 metres to the pin and hit nine iron, I got short of that last slope and made the putt. Second one was driver, eight iron, pin-high left and made a good putt again. Then the next was driver-wedge and I hit the putt well and made it.”

Kenya Savannah Classic 2021 R2

“It’s a bit different this week. Last week I was here as well and missed the cut by one. I was struggling with my swing a bit – trying to play aggressive but it didn’t really work the first day. On the second I got it back. But this week I’ve found something again. I got some confidence out there so I am able to hit the driver on most tee boxes and be aggressive going into the pins.”

Justin Harding, the winner of last week’s Magical Kenya Open presented by Johnnie Walker, continued his remarkable form at Karen as he carded a 66 to drop back to a share of second place having shared the first round lead.

“I think the golf course just suits me well,” said Harding. “I enjoy it out there, I drove it really well today, I put it in play and to be fair I probably just didn’t hit it close enough to the hole. I made a couple of good long putts but missed a couple of short ones which was a bit annoying.”

Kenya Savannah Classic 2021 R2

“Ultimately it’s two good days’ work done. I think I’ve got to just handle my emotions correctly. Today I was a little grumpier than I’ve been for the last five days but ultimately it’s a beautiful golf course to play and, as I’ve said many times, there are a bunch of birdies out there. If you execute your plan, any one of us can go out there and score so I’m trying to fend off the rest of the guys and see what happens.”

He was joined on 12 under par by Scot David Drysdale, who signed for second successive 65 as he hunts a maiden European Tour title.

“I guess it was a little bit surprising after last week. Actually I had to change driver head last week to loft up and launch it a little higher in the altitude here and I just hit too many left. I missed a lot of fairways and stymied myself behind a few trees so went back to my old head, nine and a half and I’ve driven it fantastically so far.”

“The head I’m using this week is the head I’ve used for the last few events before last week. When you come to this sort of altitude I just feel you need a little bit more launch to keep the ball in the air but obviously it didn’t work out well.”

South Korean Kyongjun Moon had the highlight of the day as he made a hole-in-one albatross on the par four seventh hole, holing out from 346 yards with his driver.

Kenya Savannah Classic 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Daniel van Tonder	-13	65	64	129
T2	David Drysdale	-12	65	65	130
T2	Justin Harding *	-12	64	66	130
T4	Darren Fichardt *	-11	65	66	131
T4	Masahiro Kawamura *	-11	67	64	131
T4	Niklas Lemke *	-11	66	65	131
T7	Marcus Armitage *	-10	65	67	132
T7	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	-10	66	66	132
T7	Romain Langasque *	-10	67	65	132
T7	Joost Luiten	-10	64	68	132
T7	Darius van Driel	-10	70	62	132
T12	Jonathan Caldwell	-9	65	68	133
T12	Victor Dubuisson	-9	67	66	133
T14	Rhys Enoch *	-8	67	67	134
T14	Julien Guerrier	-8	70	64	134
T14	Sam Horsfield *	-8	66	68	134
T14	Jazz Janewattananond *	-8	66	68	134
T14	Jacques Kruyswijk *	-8	70	64	134
T14	Hurly Long (a) *	-8	69	65	134
T14	Kristoffer Reitan	-8	69	65	134
T14	Lee Slattery *	-8	66	68	134
T14	Clement Sordet *	-8	64	70	134
T14	Scott Vincent *	-8	67	67	134
T14	David Wakhu *	-8	66	68	134
T25	Steven Brown	-7	68	67	135
T25	Alejandro Cañizares	-7	64	71	135
T25	Ashley Chesters	-7	67	68	135
T25	Calum Hill	-7	67	68	135
T25	Liam Johnston *	-7	66	69	135
T25	Mathiam Keyser	-7	65	70	135
T25	James Morrison *	-7	70	65	135
T25	Robin Sciot-Siegrist *	-7	66	69	135
T25	Sebastian Soderberg *	-7	68	67	135
T34	Maverick Antcliff *	-6	67	69	136
T34	Wil Besseling	-6	67	69	136
T34	Emilio Cuartero Blanco *	-6	66	70	136
T34	Louis De Jager	-6	71	65	136
T34	Ben Evans *	-6	68	68	136
T34	Jens Fahrbring *	-6	67	69	136
T34	Scott Hend *	-6	66	70	136
T34	Ross McGowan	-6	65	71	136
T34	Ricardo Santos	-6	68	68	136
T34	Lorenzo Scalise	-6	70	66	136
T34	Jayden Schaper	-6	69	67	136
T34	Matthias Schwab *	-6	66	70	136
T34	Jack Senior	-6	67	69	136
T34	Julian Suri	-6	66	70	136
T34	Lars van Meijel	-6	68	68	136
T49	Nino Bertasio *	-5	67	70	137
T49	Gaganjeet Bhullar *	-5	70	67	137
T49	Lucas Bjerregaard *	-5	69	68	137
T49	Aaron Cockerill	-5	69	68	137
T49	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	-5	70	67	137
T49	David Howell *	-5	70	67	137
T49	Maximilian Kieffer	-5	68	69	137
T49	Matthieu Pavon *	-5	66	71	137
T49	Garrick Porteous *	-5	69	68	137
T49	Richie Ramsay	-5	71	66	137
T49	Cormac Sharvin	-5	65	72	137
T49	Dale Whitnell *	-5	70	67	137
T61	Dave Coupland *	-4	70	68	138
T61	Daan Huizing *	-4	68	70	138
T61	Sihwan Kim	-4	68	70	138
T61	Søren Kjeldsen *	-4	74	64	138
T61	Ondrej Lieser (a)	-4	72	66	138
T61	Jose-Filipe Lima *	-4	68	70	138
T61	Adrian Otaegui *	-4	68	70	138
T61	Aaron Rai *	-4	70	68	138
T61	Shubhankar Sharma	-4	69	69	138
T61	Martin Simonsen	-4	70	68	138
T61	Toby Tree	-4	67	71	138
T61	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	-4	70	68	138
T61	Daniel Young (a) *	-4	73	65	138
T74	Dean Burmester *	-3	69	70	139
T74	John Catlin	-3	69	70	139
T74	Craig Howie	-3	68	71	139
T74	Francesco Laporta *	-3	70	69	139
T74	Alexander Levy	-3	69	70	139
T74	Adrian Meronk	-3	71	68	139
T74	Carlos Pigem *	-3	67	72	139
T74	Romain Wattel	-3	71	68	139
T82	Oliver Farr	-2	71	69	140
T82	Ewen Ferguson	-2	70	70	140
T82	Lorenzo Gagli *	-2	69	71	140
T82	David Law *	-2	71	69	140
T82	Tae Hee Lee	-2	68	72	140
T82	Chris Paisley *	-2	71	69	140
T82	Benjamin Poke	-2	70	70	140
T82	JC Ritchie *	-2	70	70	140
T82	Bernd Ritthammer	-2	72	68	140
T82	Robin Roussel *	-2	70	70	140
T82	Matthew Southgate	-2	73	67	140
T82	Johannes Veerman *	-2	70	70	140
T94	Jorge Campillo *	-1	68	73	141
T94	SSP Chawrasia *	-1	75	66	141
T94	Thriston Lawrence	-1	73	68	141
T94	Richard Mansell (a) *	-1	70	71	141
T94	Wilco Nienaber	-1	72	69	141
T99	Pep Angles	E	71	71	142
T99	Adel Balala *	E	73	69	142
T99	George Coetzee	E	70	72	142
T99	Grant Forrest *	E	72	70	142
T99	Eirik Tage Johansen *	E	73	69	142
T99	Kurt Kitayama	E	69	73	142
T99	Richard McEvoy	E	71	71	142
T99	Samuel Njoroge Chege	E	71	71	142
T99	Marcel Schneider	E	67	75	142
T99	Greg Snow *	E	71	71	142
T99	Connor Syme	E	71	71	142
T110	Matt Ford *	1	74	69	143
T110	Garrick Higgo *	1	72	71	143
T110	Edoardo Molinari *	1	74	69	143
T110	Simon Ngige Mburu	1	77	66	143
T110	Tapio Pulkkanen	1	73	70	143
T110	Jordan Smith	1	71	72	143
T116	Robson Chinhoi	3	75	70	145
T116	Gavin Kyle Green	3	74	71	145
T116	Dismas Indiza Anyonyi *	3	72	73	145
T116	Rikard Karlberg	3	75	70	145
T116	Joakim Lagergren *	3	70	75	145
T116	Jastas Madoya Asena	3	72	73	145
T116	Haydn Porteous *	3	76	69	145
T116	Alvaro Quiros *	3	71	74	145
T116	Oliver Wilson *	3	71	74	145
T125	Richard Bland	4	74	72	146
T125	Nicolai Højgaard *	4	76	70	146
T125	Anton Karlsson *	4	73	73	146
T125	Mohit Mediratta *	4	72	74	146
T125	Kyong-Jun Moon *	4	72	74	146
T125	Andrew Oche Odoh *	4	74	72	146
T125	Damien Perrier	4	73	73	146
T132	Ooko Erick Obura	5	76	71	147
T132	Tyler Koivisto	5	72	75	147
T132	Zander Lombard	5	75	72	147
T132	Guido Migliozzi	5	73	74	147
T132	Max Schmitt *	5	77	70	147
137	Gavin Moynihan *	6	72	76	148
T138	Pedro Figueiredo	7	76	73	149
T138	Isaac Ogolla Makokha	7	73	76	149
T138	Joel Stalter	7	72	77	149
T138	Cj Wangai *	7	73	76	149
T142	Matthew Baldwin	8	80	70	150
T142	Adrien Saddier	8	72	78	150
T144	Riz Charania	9	71	80	151
T144	Jaydeep Singh Sandhu *	9	72	79	151
146	Edwin Inana Asuza	10	76	76	152
T147	Yi Keun Chang *	11	74	79	153
T147	Oliver Fisher *	11	75	78	153
T147	Phillip Kasozi	11	76	77	153
T150	Michael Karanga *	13	75	80	155
T150	Mathew Omondi *	13	78	77	155
152	Deo Akope	14	82	74	156
153	Njoroge Njonge Kibugu	15	78	79	157
154	Taimur Malik	16	82	76	158
W/D	Jamie Donaldson	1	72		72
W/D	Mathew Wahome	E
* Player started on the back nine