Gros, solo leader (-9) after the second day of the Spanish Challenge

The French Sebastian Grosswho accumulated nine strokes under par of the field, led alone in the twenty-fifth edition of Spain’s Golf Challengeincluded in ‘European Challenge Tour’ and this Friday ended the second of four days of a tournament that will end on Sunday at Real Club Sevilla Golf.

Then Total (71-64) A list of six players is in second position, two strokes behind the leader, including number one on the Challenge Tourthe danish Rasmus Neergard-Pettersenwho is looking for his third victory to jump directly into the Tour, and the defending champion, the French Martin Couvra.

In the group of players who are five strokes under par in the field after the first two rounds, the first two Spaniards, Joel Moscatel (68-71) and Alfredo García-Heredia (70-69), will emerge, the organization reported in a statement.

Gros, a regular player on the DP World Tour, on Friday posted the best card of the tournament so far, 64 strokes, with seven birdies and an eagle against a bogey for a total of nine strokes under par .

Two behind the leader, six players share second place at seven strokes under par, with Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen standing out, having won just two of the last three Challenge Tour tournaments which means that, if he won the third, he immediately jumps to the DP World Tour.

Also young Martin Couvra, 21 years old, who won the Spanish Challenge last year when he was still a novice. On this day he signed two eagles, 3 birdies and 2 bogeys for 67 strokes.

They included Jamie Rutherford, Andreas Halvorsen, Tapio Pulkkanen and Felix Mory, who entered the classification cut, which was even and 77 players passed, including ten Spaniards and five of them members of the Pro Spain Team.

These are: -5 Joel Moscatel (Pro Spain) and Alfredo García-Heredia, -3 Javier Sainz (Pro Spain), -2 Eduard Rousaud (Pro Spain), Quim Vidal (Pro Spain) and Álvaro Quirós; -1 Pep Anglés and Dani Berna; Pair Lucas Vacarisas (Pro Spain) and Borja Martín.