Canary Islands Championship R2

Canary Islands 2021 R2
May 06-09
Golf Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Spain
€1,500,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Adri Arnaus continued his brilliant run of scoring at Golf Costa Adeje with a second consecutive 64 to take the halfway lead at the 2021 Canary Islands Championship, on an emotional day for Spanish golf.

Canary Islands 2021 R2

“I’ve been playing pretty smart. After six days of playing this golf course, you know which spots are better than others.”

“I like courses that make you think. I get myself into good positions and I enjoy that a lot. Even though the par fives seem reachable you still have to think. All that makes me go out there and try to play my best and it seems like I’m doing pretty well.”

Canary Islands 2021 R2

The 26 year old went 66-66 over the weekend on the same layout at last week’s Tenerife Open and he birdied six of the last seven holes on Friday to take a one shot lead on 14 under par, as the European Tour – and the golfing world – marked the 10th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Seve Ballesteros.

“I think I can speak for most of the Spanish players, we have all become dreamers trying to follow what Seve did,” said Arnaus. “Whenever we were young, playing around the chipping area trying to become the magician that he was. I have to say that it’s pretty special that the European Tour put that board behind the first tee because it reminds us of what he meant to our sport and to all the Spaniards. He was the icon for us.”

Canary Islands 2021 R2

Arnaus had three runner up finishes in his maiden European Tour season in 2019 – including one in Spain at the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters hosted by the Sergio Garcia Foundation – while he also had a top five at the Mutuactivos Open de España.

A top ten last week represented his best finish so far on the 2021 Race to Dubai and Arnaus is once again flying on home soil as he looks for a first European Tour victory.

Canary Islands 2021 R2

South African Garrick Higgo, who secured his second European Tour title on neighbouring Gran Canaria two weeks ago is at 13 under par after an eagle on the last.

“It’s the first time I’ve hit the 18th fairway and I’ve played this course about ten times now, so that was nice,” said Higgo. “The approach was just as good, putt was good. It broke a lot; I feel like these greens are breaking more and more as they are getting faster. It was nice to roll it in. It’s nice that the greens are getting quicker. I like to dial putts in. The greens have held up nicely.”

“I’m just doing some maintenance stuff. Just checking that everything is in the right spot. I’m not changing anything at all.”

Canary Islands 2021 R2

Scottish trio Calum Hill, Richie Ramsay and Connor Syme – who also eagled the last –are then at 12 under par alongside Italian Francesco Laporta.

“I didn’t start well, had a couple of bad shots,” said Laporta. “I made a good putt on 15 for par (started from the 10th) and said to myself ‘just start to play some golf like yesterday’. Made birdie on 16 and then went four under on my back nine. It was different conditions from yesterday, less wind. The course is just fantastic.”

“It would be good to shoot a 59 on Saturday or Sunday! I haven’t been in contention many times so I will just enjoy the next two days. Tomorrow I hope to play as well as yesterday.”

Canary Islands 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Adri Arnaus	-14	64	64	128
2	Garrick Higgo	-13	66	63	129
T3	Calum Hill *	-12	65	65	130
T3	Francesco Laporta *	-12	62	68	130
T3	Richie Ramsay *	-12	65	65	130
T3	Connor Syme	-12	66	64	130
T7	Dean Burmester *	-11	68	63	131
T7	Aaron Cockerill *	-11	65	66	131
T7	Andrew Johnston *	-11	68	63	131
T7	Richard Mansell (a) *	-11	65	66	131
T11	Oliver Fisher *	-10	66	66	132
T11	Niall Kearney	-10	68	64	132
T11	Robin Sciot-Siegrist *	-10	66	66	132
T14	Louis De Jager *	-9	65	68	133
T14	Rhys Enoch	-9	65	68	133
T14	Tom Gandy	-9	70	63	133
T14	Justin Harding	-9	65	68	133
T14	Scott Hend *	-9	67	66	133
T14	Zander Lombard	-9	66	67	133
T14	Garrick Porteous	-9	66	67	133
T14	Kalle Samooja *	-9	65	68	133
T14	Joel Stalter	-9	64	69	133
T14	Sami Valimaki	-9	69	64	133
T24	Maverick Antcliff *	-8	70	64	134
T24	Scott Fernandez *	-8	63	71	134
T24	Alfredo Garcia-Heredia *	-8	64	70	134
T24	Nicolai Højgaard	-8	67	67	134
T24	Paul Peterson	-8	69	65	134
T24	Bernd Ritthammer *	-8	70	64	134
T24	Eduard Rousaud (a)	-8	67	67	134
T24	Sebastian Soderberg *	-8	69	65	134
T24	Matthew Southgate *	-8	68	66	134
T24	Dale Whitnell *	-8	68	66	134
T34	Richard Bland *	-7	69	66	135
T34	Jorge Campillo *	-7	66	69	135
T34	Alejandro Del Rey (a)	-7	69	66	135
T34	Grant Forrest	-7	67	68	135
T34	Sihwan Kim	-7	71	64	135
T34	Adrian Otaegui	-7	71	64	135
T34	Matthieu Pavon *	-7	66	69	135
T34	Eddie Pepperell	-7	66	69	135
T34	Ricardo Santos *	-7	67	68	135
T34	Jack Senior	-7	67	68	135
T34	Julian Suri *	-7	66	69	135
T34	Fabrizio Zanotti *	-7	70	65	135
T46	Pep Angles	-6	65	71	136
T46	Gaganjeet Bhullar *	-6	69	67	136
T46	SSP Chawrasia	-6	68	68	136
T46	Dave Coupland *	-6	68	68	136
T46	Eduardo De la Riva	-6	68	68	136
T46	Paul Dunne	-6	65	71	136
T46	Pedro Figueiredo *	-6	70	66	136
T46	Masahiro Kawamura	-6	70	66	136
T46	Edoardo Molinari *	-6	70	66	136
T46	Ajeetesh Sandhu	-6	71	65	136
T46	Max Schmitt *	-6	67	69	136
T46	Johannes Veerman	-6	70	66	136
T46	Justin Walters *	-6	72	64	136
T46	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	-6	67	69	136
T60	Laurie Canter	-5	70	67	137
T60	Sebastian Heisele *	-5	68	69	137
T60	Janne Kaske *	-5	69	68	137
T60	Tapio Pulkkanen *	-5	66	71	137
T60	Alvaro Quiros	-5	67	70	137
T65	Nino Bertasio *	-4	68	70	138
T65	Luis Claverie *	-4	67	71	138
T65	Victor Dubuisson *	-4	69	69	138
T65	Julien Guerrier *	-4	69	69	138
T65	Matthew Jordan	-4	68	70	138
T65	Romain Langasque	-4	69	69	138
T65	Ondrej Lieser (a)	-4	70	68	138
T65	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	-4	72	66	138
T65	Carlos Pigem	-4	72	66	138
T65	Thomas Plumb	-4	68	70	138
T65	Shubhankar Sharma	-4	67	71	138
T65	Oliver Wilson *	-4	73	65	138
T65	Lars van Meijel	-4	68	70	138
T78	Kristoffer Broberg	-3	74	65	139
T78	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	-3	72	67	139
T78	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez *	-3	68	71	139
T78	Gavin Kyle Green	-3	70	69	139
T78	Berry Henson *	-3	70	69	139
T78	Adrian Meronk	-3	73	66	139
T78	Haydn Porteous *	-3	69	70	139
T78	Cormac Sharvin	-3	69	70	139
T78	Alejandro Tosti	-3	68	71	139
T78	Toby Tree	-3	69	70	139
T78	Borja Virto	-3	69	70	139
T78	Paul Waring *	-3	72	67	139
T90	Sam Broadhurst (a)	-2	74	66	140
T90	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-2	71	69	140
T90	Raphael Jacquelin *	-2	72	68	140
T90	Shiv Kapur	-2	69	71	140
T90	Clement Sordet	-2	68	72	140
T90	Darius van Driel	-2	69	71	140
T96	David Borda	-1	69	72	141
T96	Jonathan Caldwell *	-1	70	71	141
T96	Ivan Cantero Gutierrez *	-1	73	68	141
T96	Matt Ford	-1	71	70	141
T96	Alexander Levy *	-1	70	71	141
T96	Richard McEvoy	-1	71	70	141
T96	Guido Migliozzi *	-1	73	68	141
T96	Benjamin Poke	-1	73	68	141
T96	Steven Tiley *	-1	70	71	141
T105	Yi Keun Chang *	E	73	69	142
T105	David Horsey *	E	72	70	142
T105	David Howell *	E	70	72	142
T105	Pedro Oriol *	E	74	68	142
T105	Chris Paisley	E	73	69	142
T110	Jake McLeod *	1	74	69	143
T110	Andrea Pavan *	1	71	72	143
T110	Robin Roussel	1	72	71	143
T110	Marcel Schneider	1	71	72	143
T110	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen *	1	71	72	143
T110	Ashun Wu *	1	70	73	143
T116	Sean Crocker *	2	71	73	144
T116	Tyler Koivisto *	2	69	75	144
T116	Tom McKibbin	2	69	75	144
T116	Jacobo Pastor *	2	70	74	144
T116	Carl Suneson	2	73	71	144
T121	Grégory Bourdy *	4	73	73	146
T121	Alejandro Cañizares	4	72	74	146
T121	Harry Ellis	4	75	71	146
T124	Austin Bautista	5	70	77	147
T124	Samuel Del Val *	5	72	75	147
T124	Mario Galiano Aguilar *	5	69	78	147
127	Joakim Lagergren	7	75	74	149
128	Alvaro Hernandez Cabezuela	8	74	76	150
129	Oscar Sanchez *	9	74	77	151
130	Scott Gregory *	11	71	82	153
WD	Renato Paratore	2	73		73
* Player started on the back nine