Austrian Golf Open R2

Austrian Open 2021 R2
April 15-18
Diamond CC, Atzenbrugg, Austria
€1,000,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Alejandro Cañizares holds the solo lead after the second round of the Austrian Golf Open at Diamond Country Club where the cold conditions were once again at the forefront of players’ minds.

Austrian Golf Open 2021 R2

“I struggled at the beginning,” said Cañizares, “I then started hitting some great shots, I think the turning point was at the par three 15th hole where I made a long putt for birdie and that triggered it a little bit.”

“I started doing very well after that, didn’t make many putts – that was the only one really”

“Overall it was a great round.”

Austrian Golf Open 2021 R2

“I was trying to hit every shot the best that I could because at the start it was really cold and I was feeling it more than yesterday.

“The most important thing was to stay calm and focused and accept the fact that you’re going to be freezing cold and move the best you can with every shot.”

Cañizares started his round with a one shot lead and dropped three shots after a bogey and double-bogey at the 10th and 11th. He made two more bogeys at the 17th and 9th but compensated well with seven birdies to post a 70 and hold on to his one shot lead over Martin Kaymer and John Catlin who also posted 70s.

Austrian Golf Open 2021 R2

“I would rather lead the tournament,” said Kaymer, “but I think it was a decent start to the golf tournament, I would say. Today I missed a few opportunities and a couple of silly mistakes unfortunately happened, so I can build on my solid play and hopefully I can avoid a couple of mistakes over the weekend.”

“For me, the par threes. I struggled on the par threes a little bit, especially with the tee shots on six
and 14. Those two par threes really play with my mind a little bit, I don’t know what it is, so I need to
figure it out over the weekend.”

“Not so much on the range, but I need to find a way to actually hit a shot on those holes, not just a
straight six iron or a straight four iron, I need to play something; maybe a low one, a high one, a fade
or something, because the pin is in the middle of the green, there’s no danger left or right, it’s almost too easy. It’s too wide and you need to be very specific so it’s just something I need to focus
on.”

“I think it’s very necessary that you act spontaneously on the conditions. The wind obviously affects
your golf game a lot. There’s not really one normal golf shot out there, you need to consider the
wind and therefore I think it will be really interesting how it will play on Saturday and Sunday.”

Austrian Golf Open 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Alejandro Cañizares *	-7	67	70	137
T2	John Catlin	-6	68	70	138
T2	Martin Kaymer	-6	68	70	138
4	Justin Walters	-5	71	68	139
T5	SSP Chawrasia	-4	72	68	140
T5	Maximilian Kieffer	-4	72	68	140
T5	Jacques Kruyswijk *	-4	68	72	140
T5	Richard Mansell (a)	-4	69	71	140
T9	Austin Bautista *	-3	74	67	141
T9	David Drysdale	-3	70	71	141
T9	Chase Hanna *	-3	72	69	141
T9	Joost Luiten *	-3	71	70	141
T9	Adrian Meronk	-3	71	70	141
T14	Marcus Armitage *	-2	73	69	142
T14	Lorenzo Gagli	-2	70	72	142
T14	Nicolai Højgaard *	-2	70	72	142
T14	Rikard Karlberg *	-2	68	74	142
T14	Zander Lombard *	-2	72	70	142
T14	Jeff Winther *	-2	69	73	142
T20	Wil Besseling	-1	72	71	143
T20	Grant Forrest *	-1	70	73	143
T20	Daniel Gavins	-1	69	74	143
T20	Julien Guerrier	-1	70	73	143
T20	Garrick Higgo	-1	72	71	143
T20	Kurt Kitayama	-1	71	72	143
T20	Søren Kjeldsen *	-1	72	71	143
T20	Pedro Oriol	-1	69	74	143
T20	Garrick Porteous	-1	75	68	143
T20	Adrien Saddier *	-1	71	72	143
T20	Shubhankar Sharma	-1	75	68	143
T31	Thomas Detry	E	70	74	144
T31	Paul Dunne *	E	73	71	144
T31	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	E	72	72	144
T31	Sihwan Kim *	E	71	73	144
T31	Renato Paratore	E	78	66	144
T31	Benjamin Poke *	E	71	73	144
T31	Ricardo Santos *	E	75	69	144
T31	Ashun Wu	E	72	72	144
T39	Ashley Chesters *	1	76	69	145
T39	Emilio Cuartero Blanco	1	71	74	145
T39	Alejandro Del Rey (a)	1	74	71	145
T39	Ross Fisher	1	75	70	145
T39	James Morrison *	1	73	72	145
T39	Bernd Ritthammer	1	70	75	145
T39	Dale Whitnell *	1	74	71	145
T39	Chris Wood *	1	73	72	145
T47	Maverick Antcliff *	2	72	74	146
T47	Sean Crocker	2	75	71	146
T47	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	2	71	75	146
T47	Berry Henson	2	73	73	146
T47	Craig Howie	2	76	70	146
T47	Rasmus Højgaard *	2	71	75	146
T47	Tyler Koivisto *	2	74	72	146
T47	David Ravetto (a)	2	70	76	146
T47	Matthias Schwab *	2	71	75	146
T47	Cormac Sharvin	2	75	71	146
T47	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen *	2	74	72	146
T47	Euan Walker (a) *	2	77	69	146
T47	Darius van Driel	2	72	74	146
T60	Pep Angles *	3	76	71	147
T60	Matthew Baldwin *	3	73	74	147
T60	Timon Baltl (a)	3	74	73	147
T60	Eduardo De la Riva *	3	75	72	147
T60	Benjamin Hebert	3	75	72	147
T60	Sam Horsfield	3	74	73	147
T60	Masahiro Kawamura *	3	76	71	147
T60	Deyen Lawson *	3	77	70	147
T60	Richard McEvoy	3	75	72	147
T60	Ajeetesh Sandhu	3	77	70	147
T60	Max Schmitt *	3	72	75	147
T60	Marcel Schneider	3	77	70	147
T60	Callum Shinkwin *	3	72	75	147
T60	Julian Suri *	3	77	70	147
T74	Nino Bertasio *	4	75	73	148
T74	Alexander Björk *	4	77	71	148
T74	Nicolas Colsaerts *	4	74	74	148
T74	Ignacio Elvira Mijares *	4	79	69	148
T74	Rhys Enoch *	4	75	73	148
T74	Matt Ford	4	74	74	148
T74	Sebastian Heisele	4	74	74	148
T74	David Law	4	75	73	148
T74	Ondrej Lieser (a) *	4	80	68	148
T74	Hurly Long (a) *	4	70	78	148
T74	Stanislav Matus *	4	75	73	148
T74	Aron Zemmer	4	75	73	148
T86	Richard Bland	5	75	74	149
T86	Dean Burmester	5	74	75	149
T86	Aaron Cockerill *	5	77	72	149
T86	Ewen Ferguson *	5	70	79	149
T86	Matthew Jordan *	5	75	74	149
T86	Anton Karlsson *	5	76	73	149
T86	Edoardo Molinari	5	75	74	149
T86	Damien Perrier *	5	73	76	149
T86	Clement Sordet *	5	76	73	149
T86	Lars van Meijel *	5	74	75	149
T96	Adri Arnaus *	6	77	73	150
T96	Dave Coupland	6	77	73	150
T96	Maximillian Lechner *	6	73	77	150
T96	Matthieu Pavon	6	77	73	150
T96	Haydn Porteous	6	76	74	150
T96	Niklas Regner (a) *	6	72	78	150
T96	Martin Simonsen	6	73	77	150
T96	Toby Tree *	6	78	72	150
T96	Daniel Young (a)	6	73	77	150
T105	Christoph Bleier (a) *	7	79	72	151
T105	Bryce Easton *	7	76	75	151
T105	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez *	7	80	71	151
T105	Justin Harding *	7	77	74	151
T105	David Howell	7	77	74	151
T105	Lukas Nemecz *	7	77	74	151
T105	Robin Roussel *	7	78	73	151
T105	Jack Senior	7	78	73	151
T113	Lucas Bjerregaard	8	76	76	152
T113	Louis De Jager	8	76	76	152
T113	Ben Evans *	8	79	73	152
T113	Oliver Farr	8	74	78	152
T113	Scott Jamieson *	8	79	73	152
T113	Alexander Knappe *	8	79	73	152
T113	Gavin Moynihan	8	77	75	152
T113	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	8	77	75	152
T121	Jonathan Caldwell	9	80	73	153
T121	Tom Gandy	9	78	75	153
T121	Jordan Wrisdale	9	77	76	153
T124	Sam Broadhurst (a) *	10	81	73	154
T124	Bernard Neumayer	10	76	78	154
T124	Carlos Pigem *	10	76	78	154
T127	Yi Keun Chang	11	75	80	155
T127	Pedro Figueiredo *	11	80	75	155
T127	Liam Johnston *	11	79	76	155
T127	Alexander Kopp *	11	75	80	155
T127	Martin Wiegele	11	74	81	155
T132	Harry Ellis	14	76	82	158
T132	Janne Kaske	14	84	74	158
T134	Todd Clements *	15	80	79	159
T134	Thomas Thurloway (a)	15	86	73	159
136	Laurenz Kubin *	16	82	78	160
T137	Hugo Dobson	17	82	79	161
T137	Philip Eriksson	17	78	83	161
139	Jake McLeod	18	81	81	162
WD	Lorenzo Scalise	1	73		73
WD	David Horsey	3	51		51
WD	Lee Slattery	9	79		79
WD	Niklas Lemke	E	72		72
WD	Joel Sjoholm	E
* Player started on the back nine