The second day of the Magical Kenya Open has ended without the afternoon round of play substantially changing what the morning round had already left us, although we have three co-leaders, as the Scotsman Connor Syme (-7) has also climbed to the top, along with Tapio Pulkkanen (-7) and Darius Van Driel (-7).
The tournament couldn’t be tighter and, therefore, full of excitement. We have up to 44 players within a margin of five strokes with the head, which leads us directly to a simple rule of three, perhaps even crude, which has to do with what happened in the last two editions, which were also held at the Muthaiga Golf Club, just like this year’s.
Let’s see. A year ago the final winner was the Spaniard Jorge Campillo, who won with a two-stroke difference over the Japanese Kawamura. However, the Spanish player was five strokes behind the lead after the first two rounds. Two years ago the winner was the Chinese Ashun Wu, who was also five strokes behind the head after the first 36 holes. Okay, it may be a coincidence, it usually is, but it is also an incentive for an exciting weekend ahead.
And in this fight, in this range of real victory options, Lucas Vacarisas (-5) has fully entered, after delivering a card of 69 strokes today. The Spanish player decided to come and play this week in Kenya, temporarily parking the Challenge Tour, his circuit, and so far the move couldn’t be going better for him, considering that in Kenya points are also added for the Challenge, in addition to what can be added for the Race to Dubai of the DP World Tour. In the same case is also Joel Moscatel (-2), who has also passed the cut, despite finishing his round with a double bogey and a bogey in the last holes, when he was high on the board.
Up to seven Spanish players, in fact, fall within the particular rule of three of the Muthaiga Golf Club, the one of the margin of five strokes with the leader after two rounds: Manu Elvira (-6), Lucas Vacarisas (-5), Nacho Elvira (-4), Adrián Otaegui (-3), Alex del Rey (-3), Iván Cantero (-3) and Joel Moscatel (-2). There is an eighth who has also passed the cut and who is not far from entering the equation, Santi Tarrio (-1). Let’s say that all of them can still make a splash, although there are many who can do so on a course where very irregular and treacherous greens will continue to dictate sentence.
