Guido Van der Valk birdied the 18th to save a 74 and take the lead halfway through The Country Club Invitational on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Jay Bayron faltered in a disastrous finish.
Van der Valk had already stepped out of the players’ tent ruing his day-long struggle on TCC’s tricky surface long before Bayron came in ruffled by the winds in the last flight with a 76, virtually unaware that he had taken control of the field at three-over 147 and 36 holes away from completing a back-to-back championship in the Philippine Golf Tour’s centerpiece event.
With Bayron blowing a gutsy even-par card with three straight bogeys from No. 13 and a mishap on the closing hole, Van der Valk took charge by one over Clyde Mondilla, the very player he nipped in winning this event, previously billed as the Don Pocholo Memorial, in 2020. Bayron’s fumbling finish and a four-over card dropped him to joint third at 149 with Gialon and Shin, whose even par 72s proved as the best in another punishing day and after 36 holes of the championship.
Gialon, meanwhile, stressed the need to sharpen his short game to contend for the record P2 million top purse, saying: “I need my pitch-and-putt game to click.”
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