Walker Campbell Moves Up 3 Places In Florida
Bermuda’s Walker Campbell continues competing at the Junior Orange Bowl Golf Championships in Florida, where he has moved up the leaderboard.
Campbell shot a Second Round 5-over par 76, moving up from his starting position of 43rd to T40th.
Italy’s Renato Paratore took charge of the second round of the Boys Division, 67-67, [134, -8] to open up a 4-stroke lead over Venezuela’s Jorge Garcia, Belgium’s Alan De Bondt and Chile’s Guillermo Pereira.
Overnight leader Renato Paratore slipped into a tie for 5th place with a lackluster 73, explaining, “it was a day when my putter simply wouldn’t cooperate at all.”
Austria’s Gerold Folk leaped into contention with a best-of-the day 66, Paratore and De Bondt posting 67s.
Campbell started out on the Front Nine and ran off four consecutive Pars, before recording a Double Bogey on the par 4 fifth, a Bogey on the sixth saw him move to 3-over par, but Campbell recorded his first Birdie of the Championships on his twenty-fifth hole, it came on the par 4 seventh, Campbell closed out the front nine with back to back Pars to make the turn at 2-over par.
On the Back Nine Campbell started out with a Par on the tenth, before recording another Double Bogey on the par 4 eleventh. Campbell ran off five consecutive Pars, before shooting a Bogey on the par 4 seventeenth and then he closed out with a Par on the eighteenth.
Walker Campbell’s Junior Orange Bowl First Round Scorecard
- 1 – 5 – Par
- 2 – 3 – Par
- 3 – 4 – Par
- 4 – 4 – Par
- 5 – 4 – Double Bogey
- 6 – 4 – Bogey
- 7 – 4 – Birdie
- 8 – 3 – Par
- 9 – 4 – Par
- Campbell made the turn at +2
- 10 – 4 – Par
- 11 – 4 – Double Bogey
- 12 – 3 – Par
- 13 – 4 – Par
- 14 – 3 – Par
- 15 – 5 – Par
- 16 – 4 – Par
- 17 – 4 –Bogey
- 18 – 5 – Par
- Campbell completed his Second Round at +5
