Miguel Ángel Martín (-2) has chained his second consecutive round under par at the Open Senior which is being held at the very tough Carnoustie and has placed himself in fifth position, only four strokes behind the leader, the South Korean K.J. Choi (-6), and two from the second place which is also held by the Canadian Stephen Ames (-4).
In short, the golfer from Huelva is in the fight for everything in the last Major of the senior season. As happened on Thursday, Martín has played really solid golf and has managed to avoid mistakes on a really complicated day, where the wind has blown very hard at times. He has only made two bogeys and has signed three birdies. He has only four mistakes in 36 holes, something really remarkable under the conditions they have had.
In this sense, there are only ten players under par in the tournament and no one has managed to deliver a mistake-free card so far. It’s a slaughter from which some, like Miguel Ángel Martín, are getting off better than others. The best card of the day has been for the Indian Arjun Atwal (68 strokes), followed by Choi and Darren Clarke with 69 hits.
Among the players who are under par and, therefore, up to their necks in the battle to win, are Richard Green (-3) and Padraig Harrington (-3), as well as Ángel Cabrera (-1) or Paul Broadhurst (-1). We must also keep an eye on Bernhard Langer (PAR) and Thomas Bjorn (PAR).
The rest of the Spaniards present at the event have been cut off: José Manuel Carriles, who today signed a painful 81 after a good start, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, José María Olazábal and Carlos Balmaseda.
The cut missed by Jiménez is news, it is the first time that the Malaga player has been left out of a weekend in a senior Major. To date he had played 38 and had always played the four days, with two victories, one in the Open, and 23 top 10. His worst position in the Open Senior had been a 29th, precisely last year.
