Vintage Lascuña ties for lead with record-tying 64
TONY LASCUÑA shrugged off a bogey start with a run of birdies that continued to drop like rain on Friday, coming through with a course-record tying eight-under 64 to force a three-way tie for the lead with Liu Yu Jui and Lee Cho-Chuan of Taiwan halfway through the $100,000 Nan Pao TPGA (PGA of Taiwan) Open at the Nan Pao Golf Club in Tainan, Taiwan.
Lascuña spiked his scorching game with a five- birdie binge from No. 9 and highlighted it with a couple of putts from 25 feet out to complete a sterling 33- 31 round he actually launched with a missed green bogey on the opening hole.
But that mishap, off a wrong shot selection from 110 yards that bounced and went past the elevated green,
shotmaker, who birdied the next two holes, added another on No. 5 before
Taiwanese Tsai Chongyu’s 64 in 2017 Meronparinibubuga
season of Phiilppine Golf Tour Asia and sixth stop of TPGA.
“It’s still a long way to go but I feel good about my chances. For as long my putting clicks, I’ll be in the hunt,” said Lascuña, who had posted three runner- up finishes in the last few tournaments on the Philippine Golf Tour and PGT Asia, including a playoff setback to Reymon Jaraula at Pueblo de Oro three weeks ago.
Earlier, Jay Bayron failed to sizzle in calm condition off an early start and needed to come up with a strong
make the cut at 139 with four others. stood leaders
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as he headed to No. 10 after an impressive 68 Thursday that put him in the mix after 18 holes of the second Philippine Golf Tour Asia event here. But after a birdie on No. 12, he struggled on Nan Pao’s tough surface that likewise slowed the charge of many other bidders and missed par- saving putts inside six feet on the last two holes. But he found his range and recovered his touch at the front, birdying Nos. 4 and 6 and rebounding from a missed green mishap on the water- laced par- 3 No. 8 with a five- foot downhill birdie putt on the ninth to salvage a 34- 37 card and six shots off the joint heading to the last of the fifth leg of pine Golf Tour Asia stop of TPGA coorganized by Pilipinas Golf ments, Inc. didn’t get the on but worked come up with said Bayron, no entry in event in O p e n joint 27th May. Sean Talmadge, rook ie pro from Hillsborough, California, also made it to the weekend play with a sterling bogey-free four-under 68, anchoring his charge with a solid 33 backside start that erased the stigma of his six three-putt
round 72.
He, however, missed a couple of birdie chances at the front, settling for just one birdie on No. 6 but his 140 total and a spot in the last two rounds proved just enough to motivate him to aspire for more in this third season of the region’s emerging circuit put up by ICTSI and
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