Trevor Fisher moved steadily up the leaderboard on the second day of the BMW International Open at the Golfclub München Eichenried with a round of 69, writes WADE PRETORIUS.
Starting the day just inside the top 30 after his opening round 69, the 38-year-old promptly started his day with a birdie on the opening hole. The 2015 Africa Open winner made it two on the trot with a two at the par 3 second.
Despite not gaining further shots on the front nine par 5s, a birdie at the fifth helped the South African make the turn in 33.
A birdie on the par 5 11th saw Fisher Jnr into the top 10 on the leaderboard, before four consecutive pars was followed by his lone bogey. He failed to birdie the last, making it only one from four on the long holes, which saw him sign for a second successive 69.
After winning two weeks ago in Austria, Dylan Frittelli’s fine run of cuts made is likely to come to a halt, after a second round 71 had him in T72 on one under par, with much of the field still to come in.
Frittelli was able to make it count on the par 5s with birdies at 9 and 11, but bogeys on 5 and 14 saw him finish just one under par on Friday. Zander Lombard sits alongside Frittelli on -1, but in completely different circumstances. The runner-up in Sicily a few weeks ago finished Thursday with a disastrous double bogey, leaving him +2 after 18.
He turned it around on Friday, even after a bogey on the par 3 second, with birdies on 5, 9, 11 and 13. An untimely bogey on the 14th halted his move towards to the right side of the cut line. A closing birdie erased the pain of Thursday’s finish, but a 69 is unlikely to get him into the top 60 and ties this weekend.
Jbe Kruger is another South African unlikely to make the grade, after he closed with seven straight pars. He joins Frittelli and Lombard on -1 and with only the faintest hope of a place this weekend.
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