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Australian weathered golfers are close enough to bring back the Claret Jug after surviving two intriguing rounds to stay in the British Open controversy.
In a cruel accident, the eight Australians at Carnoustie Americans Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Matt Kuchar took advantage of the golden sun to climb to the top of the standings on the second day of play.
Despite their miserable luck, seven Australians the half-cut, led by the big winners Adam Scott and Jason Day and the intrepid rookies Lucas Herbert and Cameron Davis, to give themselves a chance at the fight of the Open glory.
Scott is the only Australian player in red numbers after beating a subpar 70 to be a penny for the championship and five shots behind second-round leader Kevin Kisner and Zach Johnson.
"I hope I have my best things this weekend," Op 2012 "I'm going to have to do a very good trick, that is to say five below normal, ideally tomorrow, to get into this tournament. "
I played a lot of good rounds of golf in majors this weekend, especially at Augusta but also at the Open, and I am very clear with what I have to do.
"My game is good enough to do it … it's just a matter of doing it."
Day lamented ending bogey, bogey, bogey for a 71 to be pair and six back , having been only two off the head late in his turn in the pouring rain.
"It was miserable over there.It did not stop raining all the time," said Day Flooded.
"It was just hard because it was not easy. at the end everything was wet, all my bags are wet, my clubs are wet.
"So it was a difficult end, I would have liked to be able to take the last four holes, but that's what it is that is. "
" I hope that I can weather tomorrow. Even if there is wind, as long as it is not wet, I will try to get back into it. "
Herbert, 22 years old and who made his Open debut, produced the best round of Australia, a 69"
"If I get a good round tomorrow morning, who knows , Sunday, said Herbert,
Cameron Davis, a beginner of the Open Open, is seven strokes after a 72nd lap, Marc Leishman (72nd), Cameron Smith (71st) and Brett Rumford (70th) ) were all eight times late.
"I just hoped it would dry up, I've done it a long time ago," said Leishman, who took the lead with rounds 64-66 to force a playoff with Johnson in St Andrews three years ago.
"I hope that's what I'm going to do.Two more laps to the left, I hit the ball well."
Matt Jones, who endured the worst of the worst conditions, has was the only Australian to miss the heat after the 75 and 76 year rounds that left the 2015 Australian Open champion nine times.
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