DS Automobiles Italian Open R2

Italian Open 2021 R2
September 02-05
Marco Simone GC, Rome, Italy
€3,000,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Australian Min Woo Lee fired a second round 68 to take a two shot lead into the weekend at the DS Automobiles Italian Open in Rome.

Italian Open 2021 R2

“Very solid again. Didn’t make too many mistakes, made a couple of bad swings but the ball, it was going really far, and I didn’t really change the way I played, I just hit everything so long. Very solid, hit a couple nice putts coming down the stretch and happy to be in the lead with two rounds to go.”

He started the day tied alongside Swede Henrik Stenson and Finn Kalle Samooja and produced four birdies and a single bogey at the par-4 6th to take his first 36 hole lead on the European Tour.

Italian Open 2021 R2

Another Finn, Mikko Korhonen (66), is tied for second place at 8-under alongside Spaniard Adri Arnaus (68), England’s Tommy Fleetwood (68) and Johannes Veerman (67) of the USA.

“So far, I’m at the top of the leaderboard but whether it is a couple better or not, it’s hard to get any better than top so I will see where I finish up at the end of the day and then we have the weekend’s golf to get on with,” said Fleetwood.

Italian Open 2021 R2

“This year, especially the second half of the year, I feel like I have got off to a good start in quite a few events and then never really kept it going, so today was good. I didn’t particularly feel like, I had spells where I hit it really good and then I had spells where it wasn’t very good, so I guess that is the game but all in all, very happy to turn up after a couple weeks off and to have a great couple days, and now a weekend with it all to play for.

“I enjoyed it. Like I said yesterday, I was shocked how good the scoring was because I felt, I mean I had only played it in wind, but I felt like it was a really tough test every time I played it. Today, where they put the pins out, I felt like again it wasn’t that easy to score. I had an amazing day on the greens, I putted great, and that was sort of where I made my score. But you can definitely see in a couple years’ time where the grandstands will be and the atmosphere on some of the holes.

Italian Open 2021 R2

Stenson shot two bogeys and two birdies on the front nine to make the turn in 35, made back-to-back birdies at the 11th and 12th but unfortunately double bogeyed the 17th to close with a 71. He moved down into sixth place alongside local favourite Edoardo Molinari (70), Dane Nicolai Højgaard (69), France’s Alexander Levy (66) and South Africa’s Daniel van Tonder (65).

Samooja had a disastrous front nine producing three birdies accompanied by three bogeys and two double bogeys to make the turn in 40. He made another bogey at the 11th followed by an eagle at the par-5 12th and a birdie at the 13th before parring the final five holes for a 74, moving down into a tie for 18th at 4-under.

Italian Open 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Min Woo Lee	-10	64	68	132
T2	Adri Arnaus	-8	66	68	134
T2	Tommy Fleetwood	-8	66	68	134
T2	Mikko Korhonen	-8	68	66	134
T2	Johannes Veerman	-8	67	67	134
T6	Nicolai Højgaard	-7	66	69	135
T6	Alexander Levy	-7	69	66	135
T6	Edoardo Molinari	-7	65	70	135
T6	Henrik Stenson	-7	64	71	135
T6	Daniel van Tonder	-7	70	65	135
T11	Francesco Laporta	-6	66	70	136
T11	Eddie Pepperell	-6	65	71	136
T13	Oliver Farr	-5	69	68	137
T13	Scott Jamieson	-5	70	67	137
T13	Masahiro Kawamura	-5	67	70	137
T13	Joost Luiten	-5	71	66	137
T13	Victor Perez	-5	70	67	137
T18	Maverick Antcliff	-4	69	69	138
T18	Steven Brown	-4	67	71	138
T18	Victor Dubuisson	-4	70	68	138
T18	Ross Fisher	-4	67	71	138
T18	Gavin Kyle Green	-4	69	69	138
T18	Matthew Jordan	-4	71	67	138
T18	Francesco Molinari	-4	69	69	138
T18	Kalle Samooja	-4	64	74	138
T26	Wil Besseling	-3	73	66	139
T26	Richard Bland	-3	70	69	139
T26	Jonathan Caldwell	-3	71	68	139
T26	Dave Coupland	-3	70	69	139
T26	Sean Crocker	-3	72	67	139
T26	Scott Hend	-3	65	74	139
T26	Maximilian Kieffer	-3	69	70	139
T26	Adrian Meronk	-3	70	69	139
T26	Thomas Pieters	-3	70	69	139
T26	Dale Whitnell	-3	69	70	139
T26	Bernd Wiesberger	-3	69	70	139
T37	Ashley Chesters	-2	70	70	140
T37	George Coetzee	-2	72	68	140
T37	Calum Hill	-2	75	65	140
T37	David Horsey	-2	69	71	140
T37	Joakim Lagergren	-2	71	69	140
T37	Pablo Larrazabal	-2	70	70	140
T37	Antoine Rozner	-2	71	69	140
T37	Callum Shinkwin	-2	69	71	140
T37	Matthew Southgate	-2	70	70	140
T46	Dean Burmester	-1	70	71	141
T46	Darren Fichardt	-1	72	69	141
T46	Benjamin Hebert	-1	67	74	141
T46	Guido Migliozzi	-1	72	69	141
T46	Robin Roussel	-1	68	73	141
T46	Shubhankar Sharma	-1	75	66	141
T46	Marcel Siem	-1	72	69	141
T46	Julian Suri	-1	68	73	141
T46	Sami Valimaki	-1	70	71	141
T46	Fabrizio Zanotti	-1	72	69	141
T56	John Catlin	E	72	70	142
T56	Grant Forrest	E	72	70	142
T56	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	E	71	71	142
T56	Julien Guerrier	E	69	73	142
T56	Sam Horsfield	E	69	73	142
T56	Rasmus Højgaard	E	72	70	142
T56	Adrian Otaegui	E	71	71	142
T56	Tapio Pulkkanen	E	72	70	142
T56	Julien Quesne	E	70	72	142
T56	Adrien Saddier	E	67	75	142
T56	Paul Waring	E	70	72	142
CUT	Marcus Armitage	+1	70	73	143
CUT	Alexander Björk	+1	73	70	143
CUT	Jorge Campillo	+1	69	74	143
CUT	David Drysdale	+1	71	72	143
CUT	Garrick Higgo	+1	70	73	143
CUT	Romain Langasque	+1	72	71	143
CUT	Wilco Nienaber	+1	69	74	143
CUT	Wade Ormsby	+1	72	71	143
CUT	Andrea Romano (a)	+1	72	71	143
CUT	Joel Sjoholm	+1	75	68	143
CUT	Justin Walters	+1	72	71	143
CUT	Oliver Wilson	+1	73	70	143
CUT	Jamie Donaldson	+2	72	72	144
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+2	71	73	144
CUT	Stephen Gallacher	+2	73	71	144
CUT	Daniel Gavins	+2	71	73	144
CUT	Joachim B. Hansen	+2	72	72	144
CUT	Marcus Kinhult	+2	73	71	144
CUT	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	+2	69	75	144
CUT	Thorbjørn Olesen	+2	72	72	144
CUT	Brandon Stone	+2	68	76	144
CUT	Lucas Bjerregaard	+3	73	72	145
CUT	Filippo Celli (a)	+3	70	75	145
CUT	Nicolas Colsaerts	+3	77	68	145
CUT	Matt Fitzpatrick	+3	72	73	145
CUT	Gregory Havret	+3	74	71	145
CUT	Andrew Johnston	+3	72	73	145
CUT	Martin Kaymer	+3	75	70	145
CUT	Søren Kjeldsen	+3	73	72	145
CUT	Ross McGowan	+3	75	70	145
CUT	Darius van Driel	+3	73	72	145
CUT	Luke Donald	+4	74	72	146
CUT	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	+4	69	77	146
CUT	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	+4	72	74	146
CUT	Justin Harding	+4	73	73	146
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	+4	71	75	146
CUT	Richie Ramsay	+4	75	71	146
CUT	Sebastian Soderberg	+4	73	73	146
CUT	Matt Wallace	+4	73	73	146
CUT	Jeff Winther	+4	76	70	146
CUT	Chris Wood	+4	72	74	146
CUT	Laurie Canter	+5	72	75	147
CUT	Thomas Detry	+5	72	75	147
CUT	Oliver Fisher	+5	75	72	147
CUT	Rikard Karlberg	+5	71	76	147
CUT	Sihwan Kim	+5	76	71	147
CUT	David Law	+5	75	72	147
CUT	Renato Paratore	+5	71	76	147
CUT	Andy Sullivan	+5	70	77	147
CUT	Aaron Cockerill	+6	76	72	148
CUT	Chris Paisley	+6	75	73	148
CUT	Alvaro Quiros	+6	72	76	148
CUT	Ricardo Santos	+6	76	72	148
CUT	Jordan Smith	+6	73	75	148
CUT	Jacopo Vecchi Fossa (a)	+6	70	78	148
CUT	Nino Bertasio	+7	75	74	149
CUT	Pietro Bovari (a)	+7	74	75	149
CUT	Sebastian Heisele	+7	76	73	149
CUT	Zander Lombard	+7	73	76	149
CUT	Stefano Mazzoli (a)	+7	77	72	149
CUT	Richard McEvoy	+7	75	74	149
CUT	Robert Rock	+7	76	73	149
CUT	Graeme Storm	+7	77	72	149
CUT	Davide Buchi	+8	75	75	150
CUT	Ryan Fox	+8	76	74	150
CUT	Miguel Angel Jiménez	+8	77	73	150
CUT	Haydn Porteous	+8	70	80	150
CUT	Garrick Porteous	+8	72	78	150
CUT	Jack Senior	+8	77	73	150
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	+8	78	72	150
CUT	Joel Stalter	+8	71	79	150
CUT	Aron Zemmer	+8	78	72	150
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	+9	75	76	151
CUT	Kyong-Jun Moon	+9	74	77	151
CUT	Lorenzo Scalise	+9	76	75	151
CUT	Gregorio De Leo	+10	76	76	152
CUT	Enrico Di Nitto	+10	77	75	152
CUT	James Morrison	+11	77	76	153
CUT	Federico Maccario	+12	79	75	154
CUT	Giovanni Manzoni (a)	+12	75	79	154
CUT	Connor Syme	+12	77	77	154
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	+14	81	75	156
CUT	Luca Cianchetti (a)	+15	77	80	157
CUT	Marc Warren	+16	86	72	158
CUT	Andrea Pavan	+18	80	80	160
CUT	Tommaso Perrino	+19	81	80	161
WD	David Howell	+6	76	44	120
WD	Thomas Aiken	+11	77	45	122
WD	Tae Hee Lee	+7	71	43	114
WD	Jazz Janewattananond	+7	75	33	108