Our favorite golfer, Miguel Angel Jimenez is at it again, busy dancing his way to the lead in the European Tour’s True Thailand Championship. He just keeps on keepin on.
From European Tour.com:
Even a bout of flu could not slow Miguel Angel Jiménez as he established a one shot lead at the halfway stage of the True Thailand Classic presented by Black Mountain began.
Jiménez had complained of feeling under the weather during his opening 67, although that had not prevented him dancing on the fairway after holing his approach to the ninth for eagle.
And the 51 year old Spaniard insisted he was still bunged up on Friday, although there was little sign of it as he reeled off seven birdies at Black Mountain Golf Club, including a 20 foot effort on the seventh.
Jiménez did drop a shot at the ninth, his final hole, after a wayward tee shot and coming up short of the green with his approach to card a 66 and 11 under halfway total.
That closing bogey saw a three shot lead reduced to one as playing partner Kiradech Aphibarnrat birdied the same hole from eight feet for a second straight round of 67.
Already a winner on the Champions Tour this year, Jiménez is now looking to extend his own record as The European Tour’s oldest winner, which he currently holds when he triumphed as a 50 year old in last year’s Open de España.
“I’m very happy,” said Jiménez. “I am disappointed to make bogey on the last but overall I played very solid and made a lot of birdies.
“I was hitting shots right at the flags today. You need to be in the right places on the greens to put the ball on the right side of the hole, because the putts are very fast – I like it.
“I have the flu and I’m very bunged up and slept terribly last night, but apart from that I’m fine.”
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