Abraham Ancer takes 5-stroke lead at LIV Hong Kong

First-round co-leader Abraham Ancer birdied 5 of his closing eight holes Saturday for an 8-under 62 and a 5-stroke lead after two rounds of the inaugural LIV Golf event in Hong Kong.

Ancer, searching for his first particular person LIV Golf win, had a two-round whole of 15-under 125 on the Hong Kong Golf Membership course. He had zero bogeys over his first two rounds.

His finest end on the circuit got here final season when he tied for third at LIV Golf Bedminster.

“I am not going to be fascinated with main the event,” Ancer stated. “I am simply going to go on the market and keep within the current, go about my routine and simply hold doing the identical factor. Attempt to concentrate on the shot that I’ve received in entrance of me.”

Harold Varner III and Eugenio Chacarra, who shot second-round 66s, had been tied for second.

“An important factor just isn’t fear about Abe,” stated Varner, who’s searching for his second LIV Golf win. “That is the way you lose. I believe I’ve performed sufficient golf to know that the most effective factor is to only give myself as many seems as attainable and attempt to simply keep inside myself.”

Joaquin Niemann, who received the Jeddah event in Saudi Arabia final week for his second LIV victory in three begins, had a 68 and was 10 strokes behind Ancer.

In group play, captain Sergio Garcia‘s Fireballs GC, aided by robust rounds from Ancer and Chacarra, stands at 28-under, three photographs forward of Cameron Smith‘s Rippers GC and 6 up on captain Martin Kaymer‘s Cleeks GC.

The Hong Kong event is the second of three LIV Golf occasions which can be a part of the Asian swing, with the third in early Might in Singapore. The week earlier than Singapore, the LIV sequence can be within the Pacific area at The Grange in Adelaide, Australia, from April 26-28.

Subsequent up after Hong Kong on the LIV tour can be in Miami from April 5-7.

The Related Press and Subject Degree Media contributed to this report.