Dec 20, 2019: Major Champion Adam Scott carded a five under par round of 67 to stay in the hunt heading into the weekend at the Australian PGA Championship.
The home favourite, who became Australia’s first Masters Champion in 2013, eagled the 15th hole at RACV Royal Pines Resort for the second day in a row, and then carded four further birdies to sit two strokes behind China’s Carl Yuan. Yuan recorded the joint-low round of the tournament thus far, a seven under par 65, to move to nine under par.
In second is Australian Anthony Quayle, who plies his trade on the Japan Golf Tour. The 25-year-old moved to eight under par after a second round of 66, which included six birdies and an eagle.
Scott shares third place with compatriot Wade Ormsby, who he grew up playing golf with in Adelaide, South Australia. The pair are one stroke ahead of Michael Hendry, of New Zealand, and Australia’s Tom Power Horan.
South African Bryce Easton, who finished 22nd on the Challenge Tour’s Road to Mallorca Rankings in 2019, carded a four under par round of 68 to move to a share of seventh, alongside twice-defending champion Cameron Smith, who matched Yuan’s round of 65.
Smith is bidding to become the first player to win a non-Major or WGC European Tour event three years in a row since Ernie Els won the Heineken Classic, also held in Australia, from 2002 to 2004.
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