Jorge Campillo (-10) is in the fight for victory at the Myrtle Beach Classic. To the hilt. The Extremaduran golfer, like a pile driver, has again delivered a card of 66 strokes on the second day and has placed himself in third position alone, two strokes behind the leader Chris Gotterup (-12), curiously one of his playing partners.
Campillo has again played solidly at the The Dunes Golf and Beach Club in South Carolina. He is comfortable with his game. He feels at ease with his irons and that allows him to leave many opportunities. He doesn’t make all of them because that’s almost impossible, but the putter is fine. It’s night and day on the greens compared to last week.
His golf has been so similar to Thursday’s, perhaps even better in the irons to green, that he has almost nailed the successes in the same holes. Today he has made six and one bogey and has repeated in four holes: 1, 4, 6 and 13. The difference is that on 13 yesterday he made eagle from outside and today he has made birdie. In any case, in those four holes he has a partial of -9, a large part of the work.
Jorge has been warning for some time on the PGA Tour. We have been telling you about it in Ten Golf. Every day that goes by he feels more at ease. It is true that he had never presented such a solid candidacy for victory as this week when we are at the halfway point of the tournament, but he had delivered very powerful cards. What’s happening at Myrtle Beach is a natural consequence of what he had been doing.
Campillo prefers to be prudent. He has seen it in a thousand colours and already knows how golf works. There is still half the way to get to the end of Sunday with options. What seems to flow wonderfully today, tomorrow can twist, but in the meantime he does not tire of showing that he has more than enough place on the PGA Tour.
Today alone he has left ten birdie options of four and a half metres or less, which in the United States is equivalent to 15 feet. This is power. He has made six, which is very good, but it shows that he still has room for improvement, that even if everything went smoothly he could go even lower at the weekend. It was a round of 66 strokes without shocks, playing like a clock, practicing golf to the Scheffler…
This Saturday he will go out in the last matches to try to give himself a chance of victory on Sunday. Let’s remember that this tournament shares the week with the Wells Fargo Championship, it gives less points, but the victory has the same value.
Campillo is two strokes behind Gotterup, a sensational hitter, somewhat disordered, but lethal with the putt this week, and one behind Robert MacIntyre (-11), an old acquaintance of Jorge Campillo’s DP World Tour. One stroke behind the Extremaduran are Alex Smalley, Davis Thompson, Beau Hossler and Alistair Docherty.
Among those who have missed the cut, set at -1, stand out Sami Valimaki, Ryo Hisatsune, Kevin Kisner, Garrick Higgo, Matti Schmid or Taiga Semikawa.
