Cazoo Open up 2022: Julien Guerrier leads from Callum Shinkwin, Eddie Pepperell slides, David Howell tends to make minimize

Julien Guerrier set himself in situation to exorcise the demons of last thirty day period by moving to the prime of the Cazoo Open up leaderboard.

Cazoo may possibly have been an unappealing word in the Guerrier house for a couple months, as he had the Cazoo Typical in his grasp only to implode on the back again nine at Hillside.

A several weeks on, and the Frenchman is in competition once more and holds a two-shot guide heading into the weekend.

Guerrier was not faultless but in hard situations at Celtic Manor, his round of 68 was good sufficient to get him to seven-underneath.

Callum Shinkwin is the closest challenger to Guerrier, as he posted a spherical of 68 to climb to 5-beneath.

“I started out off awful,” Shinkwin reported. “It was a prolonged drive to commence on 11 and I bought chilly. Following that it clicked in and I began hitting it superior.

“The putter was pretty heat, which was good, and I was viewing the traces fantastic.

“The wind does swirl round this place a good deal and I am pretty delighted with the way I played.”

Second Spherical Leaderboard

• 1. Julien Guerrier, 7-below
• T2. Callum Shinkwin, 5-beneath
• T2. Johannes Veerman, 5-below
• T4. Jack Senior, 4-underneath
• T4. Espen Kofstad, four-below
• T4. Marcus Armitage, 4-underneath
• T4. Thomas Detry, four-under
• T8. Mikko Korhonen, 3-less than
• T8. Ewen Ferguson, a few-below
• T8. Dale Whitnell, a few-beneath

Johannes Veerman was a player who threatened to get to and perhaps overhaul Guerrier, but he produced a double bogey on 13 and dropped a different shot on 15. With his round threatening to unravel, he holed his 3rd shot on 18 from the fairway to get to 5-under.

A 66 was the very best round of the working day, with Thomas Detry catapulting himself to 4-beneath on the back of some spectacular play.

Eddie Pepperell started very well with a birdie on his opening hole, but the Englishman’s sport was off colour and he dropped back again into the pack at even-par right after a spherical of 74.

On his 700th DP Earth Tour visual appearance, David Howell signed for a 71 to protected his place in the field at the weekend.