LAUREL, Batangas – Siblings Daniella and Lanz Uy blazed home with three straight birdies and stormed past overnight leaders Rey Pagunsan and Aidric Chan with a 69 for a two-stroke lead after two rounds of the Delimondo National Pro-Am at Taal Splendido Golf Club here yesterday.
The Uys bucked a bogey start on No. 7 with a stirring four-birdie binge linking both nines then rebounded from a double-bogey and two-bogey mishaps in a six-hole stretch from No. 13 with four birdies in their last five holes, including three in row from No. 4 that shoved them past Pagunsan and Chan at 141.
Daniella (left) and Lanz Uy watch their putt roll on No. 5
“We played good overall, our short game and putting clicked,” said Daniella, the former Junior World champion and now a sophomore on the Ladies Philippine Golf Tour.
In contrast, the veteran Pagunsan and reigning national junior champion Chan wobbled in their closing holes at the back, dropping three straight strokes from No. 12, marred by two three-putt miscues, although they put some semblance of a fightback with a final hole birdie on No. 15.