New Zealand’s Sam Jones hit the primary large blow of his profession on Thursday to take a two-shot lead on the Soudal Open.
Jones, a newcomer to the DP World Tour, holed out his second shot from 273 yards on the par-5 seventeenth gap at Rinkven Worldwide Golf Membership earlier than taking pictures a 9-under 62 in Antwerp, Belgium.
British duo Andrew Wilson and Matthew Jordan had been amongst 5 gamers to complete joint second at under-par, together with Nacho Elvira, Roman Langeske and Niklas Norgaard.
England’s Matthew Jordan trails Jones by two strokes in leaderboard
One other Brit, Andrew Wilson, can be two strokes behind the chief in Belgium
The 27-year-old Jones had three birdies and one bogey on the entrance 9, then added 4 extra birdies to finish a implausible day with an albatross rating.
“Initially it was three photographs and I used to be going to put up (on the seventeenth),” Jones defined. “Take into consideration taking three irons off the tee, hitting three woods, pulling slightly bit, and hitting it effectively.”
From there, he hit a 3-wood into the breeze.
“I used to be already going effectively at that stage, so I figured if I acquired a bogey right here it would not be an enormous deal,” he mentioned. “Simply hit it, flush it, name it good within the air and that is it.”
Jones involves Belgium after making 4 cuts in 4 of his previous 5 begins.
Proceed to observe the DP World Tour Soudal Open in Belgium reside on Sky Sports activities Golf Channel from 12pm on Friday
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