Mexico Open 2023 R2 - Golf Today

Mexico Open R2

Simon Bale|April 29, 2023

Keywords: golf news, Mexico, Mexico Open, news, PGA Tour, reports, results, scores, Tony Finau, Tournament, Vallarta, Vidanta Vallarta

Tony Finau carded a 64 on Friday to take a one-shot lead in the Mexico Open at Vidanta.

“I played really nicely over the last couple days, was able to capitalize with the putter on shots that I hit pretty close.”

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His score of 13-under 129 sets a new 36-hole tournament record. He hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation for the second consecutive day to rank No. 1 in Greens in Regulation.

“I did some great putting work with my coach last week I think and I always feel like I’m a good putter, just sometimes you’ve got to ride the waves with your putter throughout a season. I haven’t putted it great statistically over the last couple months, but things change fast.

“This was a place where a lot of things changed for me last season. I was able to post a second-place finish and just have a nice final round, make some putts that were very important and then it carried me into a very nice finish to last season. Hopefully, I continue the good putting into this weekend and into the rest of this season.”

South Africa’s Erik van Rooyen shot a 66 for a share of second place at 12-under alongside American Brandon Wu (64).

“I’ve always been a good mid to long iron player and there’s a lot of that out here,” said van Rooyen. “The par 5s are relatively scorable if you can keep it in the right spaces. You can get up and down like I did on 6. So all of this, it just fits my eye. I love hitting driver, there’s a lot of drivers out there, and then when you roll the putter like I’ve been rolling it, good things happen.”

Overnight leader Austin Smotherman closed with a 70 and is tied in fourth place at 9-under with fellow Americans Andrew Putnam (66), Will Gordon (66), Eric Cole (68) and Akshay Bhatia (65).

Making his PGA Tour debut as a sponsor exemption, Mexico’s Raul Pereda (T12/-7) bogeyed his final two holes en route to a 70. He holed out from 249 yards at the 16th (his seventh hole) for eagle, the longest hole-out by any player on Tour this season.

Two of the seven players from Mexico advance to the weekend, Pereda (T12/-7) and Sebastian Vazquez (T62/-2).

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Tony Finau	-13	65	64	129
T2	Erik van Rooyen	-12	64	66	130
T2	Brandon Wu	-12	66	64	130
T4	Andrew Putnam	-9	67	66	133
T4	Will Gordon	-9	67	66	133
T4	Eric Cole	-9	65	68	133
T4	Austin Smotherman	-9	63	70	133
T4	Akshay Bhatia	-9	68	65	133
T9	Jimmy Walker	-8	67	67	134
T9	Cameron Champ	-8	68	66	134
T9	Ben Martin	-8	68	66	134
T12	Tano Goya	-7	64	71	135
T12	Michael Kim	-7	68	67	135
T12	Jon Rahm	-7	67	68	135
T12	Taylor Pendrith	-7	65	70	135
T12	Beau Hossler	-7	67	68	135
T12	Trevor Werbylo	-7	67	68	135
T12	Raul Pereda	-7	65	70	135
T19	Greyson Sigg	-6	72	64	136
T19	Chez Reavie	-6	68	68	136
T19	Alejandro Tosti	-6	69	67	136
T19	Stephan Jaeger	-6	65	71	136
T19	Emiliano Grillo	-6	68	68	136
T19	Austin Cook	-6	66	70	136
T25	Lanto Griffin	-5	68	69	137
T25	Brice Garnett	-5	68	69	137
T25	Scott Piercy	-5	72	65	137
T25	Carl Yuan	-5	69	68	137
T25	Derek Ernst	-5	68	69	137
T25	Cody Gribble	-5	68	69	137
T25	Ben Taylor	-5	67	70	137
T32	Joseph Bramlett	-4	68	70	138
T32	Adam Long	-4	70	68	138
T32	Geoff Ogilvy	-4	70	68	138
T32	Francesco Molinari	-4	68	70	138
T32	Charley Hoffman	-4	71	67	138
T32	Aaron Baddeley	-4	70	68	138
T32	Nicolai Hojgaard	-4	67	71	138
T32	Jonas Blixt	-4	71	67	138
T32	S.H. Kim	-4	69	69	138
T32	Mark Hubbard	-4	68	70	138
T32	Harry Hall	-4	67	71	138
T32	Carson Young	-4	67	71	138
T32	Vincent Norrman	-4	67	71	138
T45	Byeong Hun An	-3	70	69	139
T45	Andrew Novak	-3	67	72	139
T45	James Hahn	-3	67	72	139
T45	Nico Echavarria	-3	69	70	139
T45	David Lipsky	-3	71	68	139
T45	Satoshi Kodaira	-3	75	64	139
T45	Kevin Chappell	-3	72	67	139
T45	S.Y. Noh	-3	71	68	139
T45	Austin Eckroat	-3	72	67	139
T45	Augusto Núñez	-3	71	68	139
T45	Richy Werenski	-3	66	73	139
T45	Nate Lashley	-3	69	70	139
T45	Patrick Rodgers	-3	70	69	139
T45	Ryan Gerard	-3	69	70	139
T45	Dylan Wu	-3	68	71	139
T45	Kevin Roy	-3	67	72	139
T45	Zecheng Dou	-3	69	70	139
T62	Bill Haas	-2	69	71	140
T62	Ryan Moore	-2	73	67	140
T62	Lee Hodges	-2	72	68	140
T62	Maverick McNealy	-2	68	72	140
T62	Michael Gligic	-2	74	66	140
T62	Trevor Cone	-2	70	70	140
T62	Sebastián Vázquez	-2	67	73	140
T62	Derek Lamely	-2	70	70	140
T62	Gary Woodland	-2	67	73	140
T62	Cameron Percy	-2	70	70	140
T62	Jonathan Byrd	-2	69	71	140
T62	Wyndham Clark	-2	73	67	140
CUT	Kelly Kraft	-1	73	68	141
CUT	Luke List	-1	74	67	141
CUT	Patton Kizzire	-1	70	71	141
CUT	Omar Morales(a)	-1	74	67	141
CUT	Kevin Streelman	-1	69	72	141
CUT	Tommy Gainey	-1	71	70	141
CUT	Kyle Westmoreland	-1	71	70	141
CUT	William McGirt	Par	75	67	142
CUT	J.B. Holmes	Par	70	72	142
CUT	Camilo Villegas	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Kevin Tway	Par	72	70	142
CUT	Ted Potter, Jr.	Par	73	69	142
CUT	Kyle Stanley	Par	73	69	142
CUT	Matti Schmid	Par	68	74	142
CUT	Scott Harrington	Par	66	76	142
CUT	Greg Chalmers	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Martin Trainer	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Lucas Glover	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Doc Redman	Par	70	72	142
CUT	Garrick Higgo	Par	68	74	142
CUT	Scott Brown	Par	72	70	142
CUT	Cristobal Del Solar	Par	68	74	142
CUT	Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira(a)	Par	71	71	142
CUT	Tyson Alexander	+1	74	69	143
CUT	Harrison Endycott	+1	72	71	143
CUT	D.J. Trahan	+1	71	72	143
CUT	Martin Laird	+1	69	74	143
CUT	Nick Watney	+1	71	72	143
CUT	Sean O'Hair	+1	66	77	143
CUT	José Toledo	+1	69	74	143
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CUT	Matthias Schwab	+2	72	72	144
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CUT	Matt Wallace	+2	67	77	144
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CUT	Paul Haley II	+4	73	73	146
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CUT	D.A. Points	+6	71	77	148
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CUT	Kevin Stadler	+11	76	77	153
CUT	Steve Jurgensen	+14	79	77	156

Simon Bale

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