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Senior PGA Tour Event: Atwal makes minimize as Jeev misses out for second consecutive time

Arjun Atwal had consecutive rounds of 72 after 73 within the opening one as he made the minimize on the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship.

Playing solely in his second occasion on the Champions Tour for golfers over the age of fifty, Atwal at 1-over 217 was tied thirty ninth.

India’s different star Jeev Milkha Singh nonetheless missed the minimize in his second straight Senior PGA Championships after a poor opening spherical of 76 adopted by an even-par spherical.

Irishman Padraig Harrington, winner of three Majors with two Opens and one PGA Championships in 2008-09, is now one spherical away from his second Senior Major title.

He gained he US Senior Open in June 2022. Harrington who began the week with a 64 has added 68-68 in his subsequent two rounds is 16-under and one shot away from Steve Stricker (70-67-64). He is three forward of Senior PGA Championship debutant Stewart Cink (68-68-67).

Atwal, who was T-11 in his solely Champions Tour begin final month, was 2-under by way of 16 holes earlier than he dropped a double bogey his seventeenth gap, the Par-4 seventeenth.

He began from the tenth and birdied the 14th and 18th. He then parred the subsequent six holes earlier than discovering double.

Atwal will play his remaining spherical with Jim Furyk, the 2018 Ryder Cup captain, who can be the vice-captain for 2023 and the US Team for 2024 President’s Cup. The third participant within the group is David Mackenzie.

-PTI