Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship R2

January 21-24
Abu Dhabi GC, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
$8,000,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Tyrrell Hatton has a fourth Rolex Series victory in his sights after opening up a commanding five shot lead on day two of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

“I’m obviously in a great position at the moment. It was certainly tough out there, so I’m really happy to be five under. Holed some nice putts and there was a couple par putts toward the end of my round, nice to hole them and keep a bit of momentum going.”

The World Number Nine recorded an eagle – his third of the week – four birdies and a single bogey in the first 13 holes of his second round before play was suspended due to fading light just before 6pm local time.

“I haven’t actually done much short game,” said Hatton. “It’s been weird. The last sort of three weeks I’ve been hitting balls again, I was mainly focusing on long game. It’s a little bit of a surprise to see my short game as good as it has been last two days but obviously, I need that to continue over the next however many holes we’ve got left.

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“Well, it’s not going to be too bad I think because what have we got, four, five holes left to play tomorrow morning. It’s going to be a bit of a long wait potentially if I finish nicely tomorrow morning before I go out for round three. But it will be fine. I’ll just try and stay loose and see how we go.”

The Englishman, who triumphed on home soil at the BMW PGA Championship in September for his fifth European Tour title and his third Rolex Series victory, will re-start his round at 7.30 am on Saturday as he aims to hold off a chasing pack that includes four-time Major winner Rory McIlroy.

The overnight leader slipped back to seven under par with four holes left to play of a rollercoaster second round, to sit in a tie for second alongside Jason Scrivener, Jazz Janewattananond, and Romain Langasque, who will also return to complete the round on Saturday morning.

“It was hard work this afternoon,” said Scrivener. “Had to hole a few nice par putts to keep the round going but happy with it. Put in a lot of work over the off-season and it’s nice to see it pay off this early, and yeah we look forward to the weekend.

“We’re just not really used to it around here. Normally it’s nice and warm the ball goes a mile but some of those holes are pretty long, so you kind of had to adjust as you went but it’s a really good test.”

Two time Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship winner Tommy Fleetwood is amongst a group of ten players at six under par after a bogey-free five under par round of 67 .

“I think yesterday, I struggled, like I walked off and sat there last night and talked to Finno and Tommo, and I think I just forced it a little bit,” said Fleetwood.

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“It was really windy going out there in tough conditions and I think I tried to force a few golf shots playing in the wind, trying too hard to hit good golf shot and didn’t do the things that we work on, really. So that was just something that we spoke about.

“Slept on it, hit a good one this morning and stiffed it on 12 and got playing again and got going. Today I did things a lot better. Did what we discussed in my golf swing and drove it really, really well there in the afternoon and that made such a big difference in the wind. I was driving it really well. Hit some great irons. Holed out really well. Didn’t really give anything away. It was a much better day, really.”

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Pos.	Player	To Par	Thru	Today	R1	R2	Total
1	Tyrrell Hatton	-12	13	-5	65		65
T2	Jazz Janewattananond	-7	F	-3	68	69	137
T2	Jason Scrivener	-7	F	-2	67	70	137
T2	Romain Langasque	-7	16	-2	67		67
T2	Rory McIlroy	-7	14	1	64		64
T6	Kristoffer Broberg	-6	F	-3	69	69	138
T6	Tommy Fleetwood	-6	F	-5	71	67	138
T6	David Lipsky	-6	F	-6	72	66	138
T6	Marc Warren	-6	F	-6	72	66	138
T6	Fabrizio Zanotti	-6	13	E	66		66
T6	Matt Wallace	-6	12	-2	68		68
T6	Mikko Korhonen	-6	11	-3	69		69
T6	Rafa Cabrera Bello	-6	10	-1	67		67
T6	Lucas Herbert	-6	10	-2	68		68
T6	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-6	8	-2	68		68
T16	Joost Luiten	-5	F	-2	69	70	139
T16	Callum Shinkwin	-5	F	-3	70	69	139
T16	Matthew Southgate	-5	F	-7	74	65	139
T19	Thomas Pieters	-4	F	-1	69	71	140
T19	Sebastian Soderberg	-4	F	-1	69	71	140
T19	Nino Bertasio	-4	16	-3	71		71
T19	Stephen Gallacher	-4	11	-1	69		69
T19	Wade Ormsby	-4	10	-1	69		69
T24	Adri Arnaus	-3	F	-5	74	67	141
T24	George Coetzee	-3	F	-1	70	71	141
T24	Benjamin Hebert	-3	F	1	68	73	141
T24	Scott Jamieson	-3	F	-2	71	70	141
T24	Masahiro Kawamura	-3	F	-2	71	70	141
T24	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	-3	F	E	69	72	141
T24	Aaron Rai	-3	F	E	69	72	141
T24	Chris Paisley	-3	16	-3	72		72
T24	Lee Westwood	-3	14	E	69		69
T24	Victor Perez	-3	12	1	68		68
T34	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-2	F	-1	71	71	142
T34	Lucas Bjerregaard	-2	F	2	68	74	142
T34	Alexander Björk	-2	F	E	70	72	142
T34	Victor Dubuisson	-2	F	-3	73	69	142
T34	Grant Forrest	-2	F	-2	72	70	142
T34	Justin Harding	-2	F	-3	73	69	142
T34	Kurt Kitayama	-2	F	2	68	74	142
T34	Justin Rose	-2	F	E	70	72	142
T34	Padraig Harrington	-2	12	E	70		70
T34	Scott Hend	-2	12	-1	71		71
T34	Robert MacIntyre	-2	12	-2	72		72
T34	James Morrison	-2	9	1	69		69
T34	Matthias Schwab	-2	8	-1	71		71
T34	Oliver Wilson	-2	8	E	70		70
T48	Marcus Armitage	-1	F	-2	73	70	143
T48	Nicolas Colsaerts	-1	F	-1	72	71	143
T48	Calum Hill	-1	F	-1	72	71	143
T48	Rasmus Højgaard	-1	F	E	71	72	143
T48	Robert Rock	-1	F	-1	72	71	143
T48	Antoine Rozner	-1	F	E	71	72	143
T48	Richard Sterne	-1	F	E	71	72	143
T48	Danny Willett	-1	F	E	71	72	143
T48	Francesco Laporta	-1	15	-1	72		72
T48	Jordan Smith	-1	14	-1	72		72
T48	Justin Thomas	-1	14	-2	73		73
T48	Ahmed Marjan	-1	12	-1	72		72
T48	Henrik Stenson	-1	12	E	71		71
T48	Andy Sullivan	-1	10	-1	72		72
T48	Richard Bland	-1	9	-1	72		72
T48	Steven Brown	-1	9	2	69		69
T48	David Horsey	-1	9	1	70		70
T48	Maximilian Kieffer	-1	9	-1	72		72
T66	Joachim B. Hansen	E	F	E	72	72	144
T66	Min Woo Lee	E	F	1	71	73	144
T66	Graeme McDowell	E	F	E	72	72	144
T66	Adrian Otaegui	E	F	E	72	72	144
T66	Kalle Samooja	E	F	-1	73	71	144
T66	Laurie Canter	E	15	2	70		70
T66	Tapio Pulkkanen	E	14	-1	73		73
T66	Gaganjeet Bhullar	E	13	E	72		72
T66	Matthew Fitzpatrick	E	13	2	70		70
T66	Alexander Levy	E	12	E	72		72
T66	Guido Migliozzi	E	12	-1	73		73
T66	Bernd Wiesberger	E	12	2	70		70
T66	Ryan Fox	E	11	-1	73		73
T66	Søren Kjeldsen	E	9	1	71		71
T66	Joel Stalter	E	9	-1	73		73
T66	David Drysdale	E	8	-1	73		73
T66	Jeff Winther	E	8	-2	74		74
T83	Jamie Donaldson	1	F	1	72	73	145
T83	Lorenzo Gagli	1	F	1	72	73	145
T83	Garrick Higgo	1	F	E	73	72	145
T83	Pablo Larrazabal	1	F	-1	74	71	145
T83	Shane Lowry	1	F	-2	75	70	145
T83	Julian Suri	1	F	2	71	74	145
T83	Thomas Aiken	1	14	E	73		73
T83	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	1	14	4	69		69
T83	Gavin Kyle Green	1	10	-1	74		74
T83	Ashley Chesters	1	9	1	72		72
T83	Richie Ramsay	1	8	-1	74		74
T94	Raphael Jacquelin	2	F	-4	78	68	146
T94	David Law	2	F	4	70	76	146
T94	Justin Walters	2	F	3	71	75	146
T94	Ross Fisher	2	14	2	72		72
T94	Tom Lewis	2	10	2	72		72
T94	Haotong Li	2	10	3	71		71
T94	Julien Guerrier	2	8	E	74		74
T101	Jorge Campillo	3	F	1	74	73	147
T101	Sean Crocker	3	F	2	73	74	147
T101	Robert Karlsson	3	F	-2	77	70	147
T101	Martin Kaymer	3	F	1	74	73	147
T101	Zander Lombard	3	14	1	74		74
T101	Chris Wood	3	9	1	74		74
T107	Edoardo Molinari	4	F	2	74	74	148
T107	Brandon Stone	4	F	6	70	78	148
T107	Matthieu Pavon	4	13	-1	77		77
T107	David Howell	4	9	2	74		74
T111	Ross McGowan	5	F	6	71	78	149
T111	Eddie Pepperell	5	F	6	71	78	149
T111	Alvaro Quiros	5	F	4	73	76	149
T111	Shubhankar Sharma	5	F	1	76	73	149
T111	Ashun Wu	5	F	1	76	73	149
T111	Ian Poulter	5	14	6	71		71
T111	Paul Waring	5	12	4	73		73
T111	John Catlin	5	11	2	75		75
T119	Thomas Detry	6	F	4	74	76	150
T119	Renato Paratore	6	F	E	78	72	150
T119	Haydn Porteous	6	10	1	77		77
T122	Richard McEvoy	7	F	4	75	76	151
T122	Dean Burmester	7	10	1	78		78
T122	Marcus Kinhult	7	10	-2	81		81
125	Sami Valimaki	8	F	3	77	75	152
T126	Thomas Bjørn	9	F	9	72	81	153
T126	Oliver Fisher	9	9	5	76		76
128	Wilco Nienaber	11	16	7	76		76
T129	Arjun Gupta	13	F	6	79	78	157
T129	Ahmad Skaik (a)	13	12	9	76		76
WD	Joakim Lagergren	3			34		34
WD	Andrea Pavan	2			69		69
DNS	Andrew Johnston	E