Birdie Fest Lingmerth and Stenson – Göteborgs-Posten

Henrik Stenson and David Lingmerth put plenty of color on the PGA Championships during the second round – thanks to eight birdies each. When the game was broken for the thunder was Lingmerth shared four and Stenson tied for 28th place in major competition.

Stenson made five birdies in his first nine holes and was for a while at eight strokes under par for the day, which was equal to the course record.

– It was a really good start and just the start we needed to have a chance here. I played well, saved me on a couple of occasions, but did not so much wrong except a bad rash on the eighth hole, Stenson said.

A couple of missed stroke at the end meant that he had to settle a 66-round, ten strokes better than his opening round last Thursday.

– To shoot ten strokes under par and beat the track record so you really have to have luck with everything. I had a good chance to go to eight strokes under par, which had been amazing. But at the same time, six strokes under par is also a good result and especially saw it to get back into the race.

David Lingmerth would not be worse.

Three birdies in the first five holes and lead when accident happened on the seventh hole, a par three hole where you really should not get into trouble.

But the verdict missed both the fairway and the rough, he had to drop and hit back before bolluslingen end went in the cup, and two kinds disappeared.

The fun, however, was not the end of it, Lingmerth continued to give themselves birdie chances and when he put the last putt on the 18th green for birdie ended day with a 70 nd, and a total of seven strokes under par.

– The advantage of playing in the morning is that the greens are perfect, you can really put a lot of balls. I thought that you could go nine under par today. I really wish I had done it but hit too many bad shots, said Lingmerth.

David Lingmerth makes his only fourth start in a Major tournament and after day two he shares fourth place.

British Open earlier this summer a flying start to his seven birdies on the first nine holes, but did finally see off handsomely beaten by St Andrews and the tough weather – and finished in 74th

place.

Last year he did not enter a single major race, but now he will at least be in some kind of leader the ball ahead of the weekend.

When the game resumed on Saturday 14 o’clock Swedish time, 57 of the field’s 155 players, including Carl Pettersson (three over par after 13 holes), complete the second round. Australians Jason Day and Matt Jones share the lead on nine strokes under par, two former Lingmerth and seven before Stenson.

Lingmerth in major competitions

2015:

The Masters: –

US Open: –

British Open: 74th

2014:

The Masters: –

US Open: –

British Open: –

PGA: –

2013:

The Masters: –

US Open: 17th

British Open: –

PGA: Missed qualifying limit.