Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre is within the joint lead on the midway mark of the Canadian Open as Rory McIlroy had a disappointing Friday.
MacIntyre adopted up Thursday’s 64 with a 66 to submit a ten beneath whole and take the lead on the Hamilton Golf and Nation Membership earlier than New Zealand’s Ryan Fox ended up on the identical general rating when he shot six beneath 70 within the second spherical.
The Ryder Cup winner, thus far bogey-free, is at the moment with no common caddie and his father flew out on Sunday to hold for him this week.
“We have been strolling up the final and he stated, ‘I believe I would want to start out negotiating a wage this week,” stated MacIntyre in his post-round interview.
“It is an expertise for each of us. He is performed a superb job thus far. It is good for the 2 of us, it is taken my thoughts utterly off the sport of golf.
Robert MacIntyre entered the week with three top-15s in his final 5 begins, together with a tied-eighth on the PGA Championship
“After the information of final week (Grayson Murray’s demise) issues are loads larger than the sport of golf. We’re human beings and I’ve put my dad on the bag and we’re simply making an attempt to get pleasure from it as a lot as we are able to as a result of we do not understand how for much longer we’ve received of that.
“There was zero expectation as there’s been loads occurring this week. I got here out right here, put my dad on the bag and tried to play sensible golf, lacking on the correct aspect and I’ve performed that thus far.
“I’ve had a shot wherever I’ve missed it and had an opportunity to rise up and down. I am enjoying solidly sufficient and pleased with the primary two days. I am simply making an attempt to get into place for the weekend.”
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The left-hander holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the first and added one other after reaching the par-five fourth in two.
His sharp strategy play on the again 9 introduced two additional birdies after hitting it to seven toes on the quick par 4 12 after which even nearer on the 422-yard fifteenth.
MacIntyre couldn’t make the most of the par 5 seventeenth after having to splash out of a fairway bunker however he received up and down for a par on the final.
Additional again, McIlroy has dropped to tied-Thirtieth after a disappointing second spherical the place he carded two over 72.
McIlroy, who completed twelfth on the PGA Championship, made only one birdie on Friday and is eight photographs off the lead.
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