2-eagle feat nets Australian CAT Open lead
AUSTRALIAN Andrew Campbell eagled two par-5s and birdied the two others as he shot a seven-under 65 to wrest a two-stroke lead over Swede Oskar Arvidsson at the start of the $100,000 CAT (Central Azucarera de Tarlac) Open at the Luisita Golf and Country Club in Tarlac on Wednesday.
Campbell bucked the early morning gusts with his power drives and set up the eagle putts from 20 feet out on No. 9 and the other from just about a footlength on No. 12. He added six birdies that more than made up for his three missed-green bogeys for a 32-33 card.
“I really hit good drives today (yesterday). The fairways were in great shape and I was able to take advantage by placing shots where I wanted them,” said Campbell, out to snap a couple of mediocre Tour Asia.
But Arvidsson is just right be - sive output for a player debuting on the region’s newest circuit put up by ICTSI and organized by
He rattled off three birdies in a solid backside start at the chal Championship of the ADT last year rebounded from a bogey mishap on the tricky par-3 No. 2 with a stirring three-birdie binge to close out his round.
The two foreign aces’ early surge also relegated the locals to the background in the circuit the latter have four legs. And it took an unheralded cudgels for the hosts with 69s in Solid driving propels Andrew Campbell of Australia to the top of the heap with a 65. tougher condition in the afternoon for joint third.
Tony Lascuña, winner of the - bounded from a three-over card and got back into early contention the back with three birdies but fumbled with bogeys on Nos. 1 and 6 before hitting another birdie on the eighth.
Other two- under par scorers were Singapore’s Choo Tze Huang,
Thai Wisut Artjanawat hit four birdies but stumbled with three - Nilo Salahog, Elmer Salvador, Andreas Gronkvist, also of Sweden,
Zanieboy Gialon aced the 155yard No. 13 using an 8-iron Callaway Apex and Titleist ball No. 6 opening round bid hampered by a double-bogey on par-3 No. 6. - Hayden Beard, Thais Natchanon seven shots off Campbell.
With the course in great shape, the 28- year- old Sydney native made scoring look easy despite windy condition.
“With the nice condition of the course, it was easier to play even against the strong winds in the morning,” said the lanky, pony- tailed Campbell, winner back home.
- bucked a missed green bogey on No. 3 with birdies in the next two, rammed in another birdie on the seventh before drilling a 20-foot eagle putt on No. 9. He birdied No. 10 to go five- under then from 205 yards for a tap-in eagle before trading two birdies with the same number of bogeys, including
Other backers of the event - - Stojanovski, Ferdie Aunzo, Thai Andreas Gronkvist, Dutch Guido