Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre is within the joint lead on the midway mark of the Canadian Open as Rory McIlroy had a disappointing Friday.
MacIntyre adopted up Thursday’s 64 with a 66 to submit a ten below complete and take the lead on the Hamilton Golf and Nation Membership earlier than New Zealand’s Ryan Fox ended up on the identical general rating when he shot six below 70 within the second spherical.
The Ryder Cup winner, to this point bogey-free, is at present with no common caddie and his father flew out on Sunday to hold for him this week.
“We were walking up the last and he said, ‘I think I might need to start negotiating a wage this week,” mentioned MacIntyre in his post-round interview.
“It is an expertise for each of us. He is accomplished an excellent job to this point. It is good for the 2 of us, it is taken my thoughts utterly off the sport of golf.
“After the information of final week (Grayson Murray’s loss of life) issues are loads larger than the sport of golf. We’re human beings and I’ve put my dad on the bag and we’re simply attempting to get pleasure from it as a lot as we are able to as a result of we do not know the way for much longer we have now received of that.
“There was zero expectation as there’s been loads occurring this week. I got here out right here, put my dad on the bag and tried to play sensible golf, lacking on the correct aspect and I’ve accomplished that to this point.
“I’ve had a shot wherever I’ve missed it and had a chance to get up and down. I’m playing solidly enough and happy with the first two days. I’m just trying to get into position for the weekend.”
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The left-hander holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the first and added one other after reaching the par-five fourth in two.
His sharp method play on the again 9 introduced two additional birdies after hitting it to seven toes on the brief par 4 12 after which even nearer on the 422-yard fifteenth.
MacIntyre couldn’t make the most of the par 5 seventeenth after having to splash out of a fairway bunker however he received up and down for a par on the final.
Additional again, McIlroy has dropped to tied-Thirtieth after a disappointing second spherical the place he carded two over 72.
McIlroy, who completed twelfth on the PGA Championship, made only one birdie on Friday.
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