Hero Open R2

Hero Open 2021 R2
August 05-08
Fairmont St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
€1,250,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

Dane Lucas Bjerregaard produced eleven birdies on Friday to sign for a round of 62 marred by a single bogey at the par-4 15th. He tops the leaderboard at 15-under in the Hero Open and set a new course record at Fairmont St Andrews, one shot better than the record set by overnight leader Calum Hill on Thursday.

Hero Open 2021 R2

“My putter might be the most valuable thing in Scotland right now,” said Bjerregaard. “I’ve never putted like that and I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone putt like that. That was pretty special, I’m a happy man right now.

“When I made the turn. I was four under and then hit a bad tee shot on one. Terrible second shot, not a good wedge shot in and holed that for par. Then I got to three, hit two good shots on the par five, just short of the green, hit a terrible chip shot and holed that and thought ‘this is going pretty good’. Then I had a terrible shot on eight and holed a 50-60 footer.

Hero Open 2021 R2

“I hit my irons well, but didn’t hit it well off the tee. I hit about three or four fairways. I guess I got lucky and missed in the correct spots and managed to hit some good iron shots out of there and putted well. It was definitely the putter. I think I had about 20 putts today – that helps

“We’ve been very fortunate on our side of the draw. Conditions finishing up here were pretty good, not much wind and we saw the sun for a couple of holes. We’ve been very fortunate and the same story yesterday. I didn’t feel that comfortable yesterday, I played okay but I wasn’t thinking nine or ten under – you rarely are. That’s how the round progressed and I felt very confident. It seemed every time I lined the putter up I felt I could make it.”

Hero Open 2021 R2

“It’s amazing. I’m going to enjoy that tonight. It’s been a long time since I’ve been here. It’ll be nice to be on that side coming into the weekend.”

Play was delayed for over three hours due to poor weather and led to play being suspended overnight with several players yet to finish.

Local favourite Hill signed for a bogey-free 68 and moved down to second place.

“I’m pretty happy. I’ve been solid, saved myself nicely and made a lot of good five to seven footers when I had to. It’s been good.

“All day I didn’t hit a handful of great shots in a row but I was very patient, made the saves I needed to and took advantage of the ones where I hit it close. Pretty happy with the ‘B’ game today.

“It was in the bag, I just didn’t drive it well enough. I put myself in bad positions on the holes where you want to be in good positions, where you’ll have chances. But the rest was manageable and I’m quite happy – two more of the same and I’ll be chuffed.”

Hero Open 2021 R2

South Africa’s Justin Walters (64) and Spaniard Santiago Tarrio (65) moved to 12-under and a share of third place followed by Englishman Matthew Jordan (66) and Frenchman Robin Sciot-Siegrist (68) in fifth place at 11-under.

“The first holes were very tough with a lot of wind,” said Tarrio. “It got easier to play as the wind went down a little bit and the course became easier. For me, it was another good day with my putting and up and downs. The rest of my game is okay. Tomorrow is another day and I hope I can make a lot of more birdies.

“I don’t play a lot of links golf. I like it, I like to move the ball. You need to hit a lot of creative shots and I love that.”

Hero Open 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Lucas Bjerregaard *	-15	67	62	129
2	Calum Hill	-13	63	68	131
T3	Santiago Tarrio	-12	67	65	132
T3	Justin Walters	-12	68	64	132
T5	Matthew Jordan	-11	67	66	133
T5	Robin Sciot-Siegrist *	-11	65	64	129
T7	Jonathan Caldwell	-10	64	70	134
T7	Chase Hanna *	-10	65	46	111
T7	Berry Henson *	-10	67	67	134
T7	Sihwan Kim *	-10	69	65	134
T7	David Law	-10	67	67	134
T7	Shubhankar Sharma	-10	67	67	134
T13	Eduardo De la Riva	-9	68	51	119
T13	James Morrison	-9	69	54	123
T13	Toby Tree *	-9	67	68	135
T16	Matt Ford *	-8	70	66	136
T16	Grant Forrest *	-8	68	68	136
T16	Richard McEvoy *	-8	70	66	136
T16	Richie Ramsay	-8	67	69	136
T16	Jordan Smith	-8	68	68	136
T21	Bryce Easton	-7	67	65	132
T21	Hugo León *	-7	67	70	137
T21	Adrian Otaegui	-7	67	70	137
T21	Callum Shinkwin	-7	69	68	137
T25	David Drysdale	-6	71	67	138
T25	Chris Paisley *	-6	66	72	138
T25	Alvaro Quiros *	-6	66	56	122
T25	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	-6	66	56	122
T25	Darius van Driel	-6	71	67	138
T30	Yi Keun Chang *	-5	70	53	123
T30	Pedro Figueiredo	-5	68	59	127
T32	Jamie Donaldson	-4	73	67	140
T32	Oliver Farr	-4	71	69	140
T32	Ross Fisher *	-4	65	75	140
T32	Daniel Hillier	-4	69	66	135
T32	Craig Howie	-4	75	65	140
T32	Tyler Koivisto *	-4	69	71	140
T32	Damien Perrier *	-4	72	61	133
T32	Kristoffer Reitan *	-4	67	73	140
T32	Matthew Southgate	-4	72	68	140
T32	Andy Sullivan *	-4	73	67	140
T42	Marcus Armitage	-3	72	69	141
T42	Rhys Enoch *	-3	72	69	141
T42	Scott Hend *	-3	72	69	141
T42	Masahiro Kawamura	-3	73	68	141
T42	Niall Kearney *	-3	71	47	118
T42	Garrick Porteous *	-3	69	56	125
T42	Ricardo Santos	-3	72	69	141
T42	Lee Slattery *	-3	68	62	130
T42	Dale Whitnell *	-3	73	68	141
T51	Matthew Baldwin *	-2	75	67	142
T51	Austin Bautista	-2	72	70	142
T51	Jorge Campillo *	-2	72	70	142
T51	Ashley Chesters	-2	71	71	142
T51	Bradley Dredge	-2	75	67	142
T51	Joachim B. Hansen *	-2	74	68	142
T51	Anton Karlsson	-2	72	70	142
T51	Marcus Kinhult *	-2	71	71	142
T51	Renato Paratore *	-2	75	67	142
T60	Wil Besseling *	-1	72	71	143
T60	Gaganjeet Bhullar	-1	76	67	143
T60	Kristoffer Broberg	-1	77	66	143
T60	Alejandro Cañizares *	-1	73	70	143
T60	Ben Evans *	-1	71	61	132
T60	Ryan Fox	-1	74	69	143
T60	Daniel Gavins	-1	71	72	143
T60	Frank Kennedy	-1	72	63	135
T60	Alexander Levy	-1	69	74	143
T60	Gavin Moynihan	-1	70	68	138
T60	Carlos Pigem *	-1	74	69	143
T60	Marcel Siem *	-1	70	73	143
T60	Gary Stal *	-1	69	67	136
T60	Lars van Meijel	-1	76	67	143
T74	SSP Chawrasia *	E	76	52	128
T74	Dave Coupland	E	76	68	144
T74	Ignacio Elvira Mijares *	E	71	73	144
T74	Lorenzo Gagli *	E	73	71	144
T74	Tom Gandy	E	78	66	144
T74	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	E	73	71	144
T74	Scott Jamieson *	E	71	73	144
T74	Søren Kjeldsen	E	74	70	144
T74	Ryan Lumsden (a)	E	73	71	144
T74	Jake McLeod	E	75	57	132
T74	Ajeetesh Sandhu	E	77	67	144
T74	Graeme Storm *	E	76	68	144
T74	Julian Suri *	E	75	69	144
T74	Connor Syme	E	73	71	144
T74	Oliver Wilson *	E	76	68	144
T74	Daniel Young (a)	E	75	64	139
T74	Aron Zemmer *	E	71	73	144
T74	Daniel van Tonder	E	74	70	144
T92	Philip Eriksson	+1	74	63	137
T92	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+1	75	70	145
T92	Benjamin Hebert *	+1	76	69	145
T92	Nicolai Højgaard	+1	75	62	137
T92	Shiv Kapur *	+1	72	57	129
T92	Paul Peterson *	+1	77	68	145
T92	Laird Shepherd (a)	+1	73	72	145
T92	Paul Waring	+1	71	74	145
T92	Chris Wood *	+1	75	70	145
T101	David Dixon	+2	74	64	138
T101	Oliver Fisher	+2	76	70	146
T101	Liam Johnston *	+2	78	68	146
T101	Francesco Laporta *	+2	71	75	146
T101	Haotong Li	+2	77	69	146
T101	Eddie Pepperell *	+2	74	72	146
T101	Bernd Ritthammer *	+2	72	63	135
T101	Martin Simonsen *	+2	76	47	123
T101	Clement Sordet *	+2	79	67	146
T110	Paul Dunne	+3	79	68	147
T110	Niklas Lemke	+3	77	70	147
T110	Paul O’Hara	+3	75	72	147
T110	Haydn Porteous *	+3	73	70	143
T110	Jesper Sandborg	+3	74	68	142
T110	Cormac Sharvin *	+3	73	70	143
T116	Emilio Cuartero Blanco	+4	72	76	148
T116	Janne Kaske *	+4	73	71	144
T116	Marc Warren *	+4	78	70	148
T116	Robin Williams *	+4	75	73	148
T116	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	+4	75	73	148
T121	Deyen Lawson *	+5	78	71	149
T121	Robert Rock	+5	76	73	149
123	Graham Fox	+6	74	76	150
T124	Aaron Cockerill	+7	80	71	151
T124	Stephen Gallacher *	+7	80	71	151
T124	Josh Geary *	+7	76	75	151
T124	Dimitrios Papadatos *	+7	72	79	151
T124	Matthias Schmid *	+7	80	71	151
T124	Max Schmitt	+7	77	58	135
T124	Jordan Wrisdale *	+7	80	71	151
T131	David Horsey *	+8	81	71	152
T131	David Howell *	+8	77	75	152
T131	Ross McGowan *	+8	80	72	152
T131	Benjamin Poke	+8	81	71	152
T131	Adrien Saddier *	+8	75	77	152
T131	Euan Walker (a) *	+8	79	73	152
T131	Jeff Winther	+8	79	73	152
T138	Pep Angles	+9	79	74	153
T138	Tom McKibbin	+9	79	74	153
140	Romain Wattel *	+10	78	76	154
141	Chris Doak	+17	90	71	161
142	Jake Bolton	+18	83	79	162
W/D	Joel Stalter	+11	83		83
* Player started on the back nine