After opening in 69, Brad Dalke was in good shape to make the cut at the BMW International Open. One round later, he\u2019s in position to win it.<\/p>\n
Dalke, a former amateur standout who made a bigger name as a golf influencer, shot 6-under 66 Friday in Munich, Germany, to sit two off the lead after 36 holes.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Dalke\u2019s DP World Tour debut. He\u2019s in on a sponsor\u2019s invitation \u2013 and making the most of it. The 28-year-old had seven birdies and one bogey in the second round to reach 9 under par. Hennie du Plessis (-11) leads three players by a shot, including Carlos Ortiz, Michael Hollick and Jack Senior. <\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I didn\u2019t have a goal coming into this week,\u201d said Dalke, who is T-5 with Paul Waring, Frederic LaCroix and Joe Dean.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to have some fun and enjoy it,\u201d Dalke added. \u201cAnd obviously, shooting 66 is pretty fun, so that helps the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dalke, with brother Tommy on the bag, is playing in his first world-ranked tournament since 2020 on the Korn Ferry Tour. He was the 2016 U.S. Amateur runner-up and helped lead Oklahoma to the 2017 national championship. Most recently, he was a member of the Good Good Golf team.<\/p>\n
Dalke\u2019s Friday began with a wild tee shot into the right trees on the par-4 first. His recovery shot finished 12 feet from the hole, just off the green. He made that and then made another birdie from off the putting surface at No. 5.<\/p>\n
He then produced three consecutive birdies on Nos. 9-11, making 5-, 28- and 6-foot birdie putts, respectively.<\/p>\n
Dalke made another 28-footer at the 14th before his lone dropped shot of the day at No. 15. His round concluded with a traditional two-putt from 43 feet for birdie at the par-5 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After opening in 69, Brad Dalke was in good shape to make the cut at the BMW International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-742167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}