American Andy Ogletree, one of the players who arrived this year at LIV Golf, took the solo lead this Saturday at LIV UK, the eleventh tournament on the circuit, and took over the lead from Spaniard Jon Rahm, who fell this Saturday. to 4th place, three strokes.
Ogletree, who arrived at this year’s LIV after winning the Order of Merit of the 2023 Asian Tour International Series, completed the second round at JCB Golf & Country Club in Rocester with the same 65 shot (-6) he signed on Friday, out of a total of 130 (-12). He delivered a card with six birdies and no mistakes.
He is two ahead of Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and Australian Cameron Smith, who both had two consecutive rounds of 66 (-5). At three, with a -9 total, Jon Rahm and Englishman Paul Casey are tied.
Rahm, who will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games next Thursday, lost the lead by scoring a 70, seven strokes more than he needed the day before and where he became the first leader at Rocester. This Saturday, León de Barrika finished his round with four birdies for three bogeys.
The Spanish Olympian, the Catalan David Puig, is also at -5 (69+68), one less than the Castellón player Sergio García (68+70), winner of the previous tournament, in Valderrama. Madrid’s Eugenio Chacarra is at full par (72+70).
By team, the ‘Legion XIII’ of Rahm, Hatton, the Zimbabwean Kieran Vincent (-6) and the American Caleb Surratt (+2) share the first place; and the ‘Smash GC’ of Americans Talor Gooch (-8), Brooks Koepka (-7) and Jason Kokrak (-4) and Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell (-1).
Source: La Verdad
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