Everything you need to know about Friday's National Golf Club.
Thomas Detry performs well, Grégory Havret extends career, Justin Rose burns out on second day at 2024 FedEx French Open Got chips.
Here's everything you need to know about Friday's action at National Golf Club.
Detrey looks familiar
Detry shares the half-way lead with Sweden's Jesper Svensson and Britain's Dan Bradbury at 9 under. The Belgian shot eight of them on Friday to match his 63 at the same stage of the Olympics at the same venue this summer, finishing ninth. He said: “I've been here many times. I also shot 63 at the Olympics on Friday. I'm close to home, I have a lot of friends over on the weekends, fans and family are not far away. “I just love it. . “
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Bradbury's highlight came on the 14th hole when he made a superb long eagle putt and then, with the help of back-to-back birdies, set up his second-round 66 shots. When asked to describe his eagle, he said: “Just hitting it with a 3-iron, 260 yards from the pin, but hitting the 3-wood pretty far, so I hit the 3-iron as hard as I could. 45 feet, easy hole in!”
Haverett isn't ready for it to be over yet
Tributes have been paid to Grégory Havret, 47, as he prepares to compete in his 560th and final DP World Tour event in his hometown. A first-round 75 meant Friday looked like his last professional outing, but instead he had five birdies, just one bogey and two holes on the final two holes. A gutless par putt to advance to one under and win the championship. He took part in the tour for two more days himself. “I really wanted to make the cut,” said the 2001 Atlanta Open, 2007 Barclays Scottish Open and 2008 Gleneagles Johnnie Walker Championship winner, as well as the 2010 U.S. Open runner-up. “Those wins were early on. I haven't felt that way since the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 2007, 2008, or even 2001, and I'm just happy to play so well and continue the weekend.”
Rose doesn't need a putter
Justin Rose had two notable highlights on the front nine when he shot a 68 midway through the tournament to finish two strokes off the lead at 7 under. With his foot in the bunker and the ball landing on the grass above the third hole, he made a majestic eagle:
Thanks to that effort, his putt went one more hole on the sixth hole.