Australian Professional Golf Association Championship: Anthony Brown and Daniel Popovic tied for lead in round two
Anthony Brown and Daniel Popovic ended the day of the second round of the Australian PGA Championship tied at the first spot which is, incidentally, not big enough for both of them.
When the day began, Brown was seven shots below the lead. He made a move early on and closed in. By the day’s end, he had pinned a shiny 4-under 68 on the round’s leaderboard for all to have a great big look at.
The day recorded six birdies with two bogeys slipped in there too. The first birdie came in on the second hole followed by two even pars.
Three consecutive birdies on the fifth, sixth and seventh went up on the score card. With that, the front nine came to a close. The back nine had the two bogeys on holes 12 and 18.
For Popovic, things could not have been better if he had planned them. Wait, he did. The opening birdie of round two sure was.
His day saw four birdies in total and it would have been a dazzling day had it not been for the double bogey on the fifteenth hole.
Double bogeys in the world of professional golf are acceptable, even in close tournaments like what we are witnessing here at the Sunshine Coast. Double bogeys really start to stink when they are not followed up by a birdie or two.
Birdies, after double bogeys should be somewhere in there in the golfer’s standard handbook because double bogeys, and your simple bogeys too, if not recovered, look bad at the end of the day.
That is just how Popovic’s round ended.
It was not as bad as some of the others we have seen here at the Palmer Coolum Resort this week (and certainly not bad enough to have him fall behind leading the tournament). However, it could have shot him beyond Anthony Brown.
The day ended with a 2-under 70. Clearly, by the standards Popovic undoubtedly judges himself, he could have done a great deal better. Here is to hoping he maintains this epic lead into the third round.
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