Thriston Lawrence kept himself right in the mix on Friday with a second-round four-under-par 68 in the DP World Tour’s Thailand Classic at Amata Spring Country Club outside Bangkok.
And, but for a double-bogey six on the 16th – his front nine after he started on the 10th – he could have been in an even better spot than his share of third on 10-under-par at the 36-hole mark of the tournament. He was three strokes off the lead which was held by Spain’s Rafa Cabrera Bello. The Spaniard carded a seven-under 65 to lead Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti by one, while Lawrence shared third with Alexander Knappe and Yannik Paul of Germany, Thorbjorn Olesen and Christoffer Bring of Denmark and Japan’s Kazuki Higa, whose 64 was the round of the day.
Lawrence had three birdies in his first six holes before the double-bogey, and then he picked up four more shots after the turn, only to drop a shot with a bogey on the eighth for a second day in a row.
Behind him, Zander Lombard had a two-under 70 to reach seven-under at halfway in a share of 20th. Daniel van Tonder and Thomas Aiken were on four-under in a share of 42nd, with Van Tonder’s level-par 72 seeing him make the cut for the first time in a while, and Aiken’s level-par 72 coming with a double-bogey on his last hole.
Louis de Jager, Jayden Schaper and Justin Walters all made the cut on the number, with Bryce Easton, Jake Redman, George Coetzee, Deon Germishuys, Albert Venter and MJ Viljoen all missing out on the weekend action.
