{"id":407079,"date":"2011-04-29T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/rumford-makes-big-move\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:43:25","slug":"rumford-makes-big-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/rumford-makes-big-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumford makes big move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69.2837837838\">\n<p>Australian Brett Rumford&#8217;s birdie spree elevated him into a three-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Ballantine&#8217;s Championship.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<h4><span>Second round leaderboard<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span>(<em>GB and Ire unless stated<\/em>)<br \/>-10 B Rumford (Aus)<br \/>-7 S Kjeldsen (Den)<br \/>-7 M Angel Jimenez (Spn)<br \/>-6 R Davies<br \/>-6 J Morrison<br \/>-6 D McGrane<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Rumford fired a flawless second round of 63 at the Blackstone Golf Club in Incheon to take control of the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Starting from the 10th, he reached the turn in 32 thanks to four birdies and picked up a further five shots on the way home to lay down an early gauntlet on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 33-year-old, who won the last of his three European Tour titles at the Omega European Masters in 2007, is three clear of Denmark&#8217;s Soren Kjeldsen and Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kjeldsen had seven birdies in his 66 and Jimenez the same number during a round of 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Overnight leader Damien McGrane of Ireland dropped two shots in his final four holes to sign for a level-par 72.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McGrane is part of a three-way tie for fourth at six under alongside Welshman Rhys Davies (68) and England&#8217;s James Morrison (69).<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span>Solid<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span>World number one Lee Westwood made progress up the leaderboard with a 68 and is well placed for a weekend charge at four under.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Westwood erased memories of his double-bogey finish on Thursday, ending a solid day&#8217;s work with his seventh birdie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Crowd-pleasing American Dustin Johnson is one better off than Westwood, following his opening 70 with a 69, while defending champion Marcus Fraser (70) of Australia is on two under.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was not such a good day for South Africa&#8217;s Ernie Els and Englishman Ian Poulter, who both missed the cut after respective rounds of 73 and 72.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cb4b4af2yer_450x250.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/story\/0,19528,12176_6903444,00.html\" title=\"Rumford makes big move\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rumford makes big move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Australian Brett Rumford&#8217;s birdie spree elevated him into a three-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Ballantine&#8217;s Championship. Second round leaderboard ( GB and Ire unless stated ) -10 B Rumford (Aus) -7 S Kjeldsen (Den) -7 M Angel Jimenez (Spn) -6 R Davies -6 J Morrison -6 D McGrane Rumford fired a flawless second round of 63 at the Blackstone Golf Club in Incheon to take control of the tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rumford makes big move - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/rumford-makes-big-move\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rumford makes big move - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Australian Brett Rumford&#039;s birdie spree elevated him into a three-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Ballantine&#039;s Championship. 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