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BMW International Open 2015: Trio sets early pace.
Thu Jun 25 19:55:02 CEST 2015 Press Release
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Three players are tied at the top of the leaderboard going into Friday’s second round of the BMW International Open: Lasse Jensen (Denmark), Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spain) and Daniel Gaunt (England) went round the Championship Course at Golfclub München Eichenried in 65 shots (-7), thrilling the 14,000 spectators with a dazzling display of top-class golf in glorious sunshine.
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Munich. Three players are tied at the top of the
leaderboard going into Friday’s second round of the BMW
International Open: Lasse Jensen (Denmark), Rafael Cabrera-Bello
(Spain) and Daniel Gaunt (England) went round the Championship
Course at Golfclub München Eichenried in 65 shots (-7), thrilling
the 14,000 spectators with a dazzling display of top-class golf in
glorious sunshine.
However, a big chasing pack littered with big names is hot on
their heels. Among them is world number seven Henrik Stenson (67,
-5). It looked briefly as though the Swede’s challenge was set to
fade after a triple-bogey on the sixteenth (his seventh) hole.
However, Stenson kept his cool, shooting eight birdies to fight
his way back into a tie for fifth place.
“There was a lot going on there today,” said Stenson, who won
the BMW International Open back in 2006. “I got off to a pretty
good start, and I didn’t do too much wrong on 16 but wound up with
a triple bogey. I hung in there and tried to just keep on going.
Then I wrapped up with a nice string of birdies on 5, 6, 7 and 8.”
The two best-placed Germans trail Stenson by just one shot
after the first round: Munich-born Florian Fritsch (68, -4)
thrilled golf fans on the Championship Course with five birdies
and just one bogey – and was happy with his ‘home-coming’
performance. “I have played here a few times in the past, but
never particularly well. Today was a different story,” he said. “I
just putted better than I have before. Then a nice run of three
birdies in a row took me to four under par. I will try to continue
to play my game and take it one shot at a time – then we will see
what happens in the end.”
Marcel Schneider also carded a 68 (-4) to tie with Fritsch and
a further twelve players in tenth place. Fellow Germans Anton
Kirstein (70, -2), Bernd Ritthammer (71,-1), and local favourite
Marcel Siem (-1) also broke par. BMW Golfsport Ambassador Max
Kieffer, who turned 25 today and was presented with a new BMW M4
Coupé for his birthday shortly before starting his round, had to
settle for a level par 72, along with two-time major winner Martin Kaymer.