– Kazuma Kobori (-10) is the leader of the BMW Australian PGA Championship after the second round. This young New Zealand talent, a true killer on the greens, finished his round with four consecutive birdies to record the best score of the day (63) and climb to the solo lead, one stroke ahead of the young Chinese player Wenyi Ding (-9) and the Australians Anthony Quayle (-9), who has a renowned caddie like Steve Williams in his bag, and Brett Rankin (-9), a veteran (aged 39) who has spent his entire career playing on the PGA Tour of Australasia, where he has only one victory, six years ago.
– Three Spanish players have finished the first 36 holes within the top ten. On one hand, Sebas García (-7), who after leading the tournament following the completion of the first round this morning, delivered a 72 in a rather eventful round marked by the double bogey he signed on the 15th hole, the last par 5 of the course. In any case, the Madrid native has made it into the final weekend matches in his return to the top division, which is undoubtedly more than good news. Also in the fight for everything will be David Puig (-7) and Josele Ballester (-7) after both signed cards of 67 strokes, four under for the day. Both left some opportunities along the way, like Ballester on the 14th, the most challenging hole of the Royal Queensland Golf Club, a par 5 converted into a long par 4 for this tournament, where he hit a superb second shot to leave the ball a metre and a half from the cup. Nevertheless, both the Catalan and the player from Castellón finished in the best way, with two birdies in the final stretch of their respective rounds, becoming serious threats for the last two rounds.
– Rocco Repetto (-4) was unable to continue in the second round with that imperial finish of the first round, played this very morning, shortly before going out to play the second round, in which he chained four birdies and two eagles to climb to second place. After the party came a much rougher round of golf (74 strokes), with six bogeys and three birdies, although the first major objective, which was surely to make the cut in his debut on the DP World Tour, was already well secured. And, looking at it, the young Andalusian is not that far from the top of the leaderboard, six strokes behind with 36 holes to play.
– Two illustrious and main favourites like Joaquín Niemann (-1) and the local idol Cameron Smith (+1) have missed the cut. In reality, the label of main favourite is automatically given to Smith, according to his splendid results in this tournament, which he has already won three times, the last of them on this very course. But he shouldn’t be if we look at his records from the year 2025 outside of LIV Golf: he has played seven tournaments, including this week’s, and hasn’t made any cuts… A devastating fact considering who he is, even though four of those seven tournaments were Majors.
– Quim Vidal, who was +4 with two holes to go when play was suspended due to lack of light, Rafa Cabrera Bello (PAR), who finished his first round this morning with a notable total of -3, but then signed a 74, and Adri Arnaus (-1), who missed the cut by just one stroke with a second card of 71 strokes, will also not be present over the weekend.
