Double, triple-bogeys trip up Bezuidenhout at Wyndham Championship

Aug 6, 2022 | Featured, South Africans abroad

When play was suspended because of darkness on Friday in the second round of the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina, Christiaan Bezuidenhout had finished his round at level-par 70.

That left him at four-under-par for the tournament at the halfway mark, and in a share of 25th place. With only three players out on the course still to complete their rounds, that’s where Bezuidenhout will start his weekend. It’s five shots off the three-way share of the lead held by Brandon Wu and Ryan Moore of the United States, and Joohyung Kim of South Korea. They lead by one from American Russell Henley and first-round leader John Huh, and Korea’s Sungjae Im.

Bezuidenhout made five birdies in his second rounds, but a double-bogey on 13 and a triple-bogey on 18 stymied his efforts to climb the leaderboard after his good opening round. He started his round on the 10th and pushed his tee-shot right on the 13th. He managed to get on the green of the par-four hole in three, but three-putted from about 58 feet. He again pushed his tee-shot right on 18, and played three off the tee. He pulled that one left, and hacked out to the right rough. He got his fifth on to the green and two-putted from just inside 30 feet.

Dawie van der Walt and Garrick Higgo missed the cut.

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