Christo Lamprecht finally came good as a professional on Friday when he carded a brilliant eight-under-par 64 in the second round of the Korn Ferry Tour’s The Ascendant presented by Blue at TPC Colorado in Berthoud, Colorado.
Playing in his fourth tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour after missing the cut in his first three events, Lamprecht opened with a two-under-par 70, which was well off the leading total of eight-under 64 and gave no sign of what he is capable of.
But he opened his scoring in his second round with an eagle-three on the first following a 380-yard tee shot. He chipped in from the fringe to get things going, and he followed that with a disappointing bogey on the second. But he rectified that mistake with consecutive birdies on the third and fourth, and he had a second eagle on the fifth.
Once again, it was a 380-yard drive which set him up, but this time, it was a brilliantly rifled 222-yard approach to two inches which gave him the boost. He bogeyed the eighth and birdied the ninth to turn in five-under 31. He kept things tidy on the homeward nine with well-taken birdies on 10, 15 and 17 as he climbed 68 places on the leaderboard into a share of third at halfway.
Up front, one ahead of Lamprecht, Peter Kuest and Matt McCarty of the United States shared the lead at 11-under after rounds of 65 and 68 respectively. Lamprecht shared third with four other players, and there were six players in a share of eighth on nine-under.
Dawie van der Walt made the cut after a second round of three-under 69 took him to five-under and a share of 45th. Aldrich Potgieter slipped to a second-round 73 and missed the cut by one as he moved to two-under through 36 holes.
