Second round proceedings underway at KLM Open with Johan Edfors moving up the leaderboard
Swede golfer, Johan Edfors seems to have taken up the KLM Open seriously almost at the end of the season, and has churned out one bogey along with a birdie to settle for first round score of four-under, 66, for the moment. First round leaders, Simon Dyson
and Marcel Siem have yet to tee-off for their second round and are still at the top of the leaderboard where most of the players are yet to complete their remaining first round holes on their respective back nines.
Another Englishman, Simon Khan is also in contention for an early lead and is four-under for the moment. Indian player, Shiv Kapur has also shot into contention after he completed his first round with four-under, 66, settling for a joint third along with
Edfors, Khan, James Kingston and Robert Dinwiddie.
Englishman, Ross Fisher is tied for joint eighth after he pulled in four birdies in his first round and did not drop a single shot in the whole round.
World number Two, Lee Westwood, had a disappointing day so far when he completed his 18-holes for an even-par. The reigning US Open champion, Rory McIlroy, who decided to stay back on his home tour rather than playing at the lucrative FedExCup Playoff Championship
at the other side of the Atlantic, is now seriously threatened by the halfway cut after his sloppy first round score of one-over.
The 22-year-old Irishman suffered a painful wrist injury at the PGA Championship last month, but stayed on course to finish the championship. He later withdrew in the third round although he made the cut for the last major event of the year. He finished
with a joint third in last week’s Omega European Masters, amply demonstrating the fact that he has now fully recovered from the injury and has regained his top form.
Defending champion, Martin Kaymer, who fell in for the worst figures of day one, has yet to start his second round proceedings and will also be in a bottle-neck to perform better in order to stay in the event. He finished for an outright second last week,
trailing the winner, Thomas Bjorn, by four shots.
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