Corey Pereira (Sacramento, California) remains bogey-free through 36 holes at Blackhawk Golf Club, and a second-round 63 has given him a 15-under total and a two-stroke lead entering the weekend at the ATB Classic presented by Building Trades of Alberta. <\/p>\n
Through the season\u2019s first 13 events, Pereira has the tour\u2019s second-best scoring average (67.52) and his 7-under 63 on Friday was his 10th consecutive round in the 60s. He has five top-fives this season, including fifth-place finishes in his last two starts, and is currently No. 3 on the points list with just one event remaining before the top 10 players earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for 2027.<\/p>\n
In June, Pereira\u2019s win at the Mexico Championship presented by Scotia Wealth Management came nearly one year after his wife, Leah, died from a rare and highly aggressive sarcoma, and put him on a path to return to the Korn Ferry Tour for the first time since the 2022 season.<\/p>\n
Also shooting 63, matching Pereira\u2019s score, were Connor Howe (Ogden, Utah), Charlie Crockett (Surrey, England) and Garrett Endicott (San Antonio, Texas). Howe is second at 13-under and projected to move from No. 19 to No. 7 on the points list, while Crockett is third at 12-under and projected to move from No. 23rd to 15th. In a three-way tie for fourth at 11-under, Endicott is projected to move from 93rd to 62nd. After this week\u2019s regular-season finale, the top 60 players on the points list qualify for the season-ending Dominican Republic Tour Championship presented by Scotiabank.<\/p>\n
Also in a tie for fourth, at 11-under, are Justin Biwer (San Diego, California) and Connor Gaunt (Cabot, Arkansas). Competing on the course he grew up playing, sponsor exemption Wil Bateman (Edmonton, Alberta) opened with rounds of 64-67 to join Noah Steele (Kingston, Ontario) and three other players in a tie for eighth at 9-under.<\/p>\n
Playing in the last group to finish on 18 right before darkness, Josh Nagy (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) fired a low of the day 8-under 62 to make the cut on the number. Nagy made eight birdies to move up 79 spots and will enter the weekend tied for 58th at 4-under. Zach Pollo (Rocklin, California) followed a course-record-setting 61 that gave him the opening-round lead with a 75 to make the cut on the number as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Pereira (Sacramento, California) remains bogey-free through 36 holes at Blackhawk Golf Club, and a second-round 63 has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-897440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}