Joe Dean completed day two in second place on the acciona Open de Espana, 4 pictures behind house chief Angel Hidalgo.
Dean (-6) headed an English trio within the chasing pack as Hidalgo (-10) adopted his opening 65 with a 67 on day two to maneuver away from Dean, whose 65 contained 5 birdies, two eagles – together with a chip-in on the fourth – and three bogeys.
Sam Bairstow was a shot additional again on 5 below – tied for third with three-time champion Jon Rahm, United States Ryder Cup participant Patrick Reed, Frenchman Julien Guerrier and one other Spaniard in Alfredo Garcia-Heredia, whereas the luckless Tommy Fleetwood was 4 below.
Fleetwood opened with three birdies within the first 5 holes, however the momentum was sapped from his spherical after his tee-shot on the ninth struck the pin and rebounded 50 ft, resulting in a three-putt bogey – he made only one birdie and one bogey the remainder of the way in which.
Hidalgo, who made 5 birdies with only a solitary dropped shot, mentioned: “Yesterday I was completely blind, I was just hitting the ball and I don’t know why it was directly to the pin. But today I played really good.”
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