Rain delays, unhealthy gentle and an incomplete spherical have been all no match for Eugenio Chacarra, who dug deep, bringing all his expertise on the course to go prime of the leaderboard whilst Indian golfers fell brief in Spherical Two of the Hero Indian Open on the DLF Golf & Nation Membership right here on Friday.
Play was delayed for nearly an hour and a half as a result of rain and unhealthy gentle within the morning, pushing tee-offs. With the backlog piling up, the final group began as late as 2.20 pm. Play was known as off round 6.40 pm with 30 golfers nonetheless to finish their second spherical, which is able to now proceed on Saturday morning.
Chacarra, one shot adrift in a single day, had 4 birdies and three bogeys for a reasonably balanced spherical, topped off with an eagle on the 18th for a two-day whole of eight-under 136. He was adopted intently by South African Casey Jarvis, one stroke behind, MJ Daffue and Spherical One chief Freddy Schott, making the top-five.
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Jarvis was the person of the second with 9 birdies by means of the day, his good spherical marred by a single bogey on the 4th to complete with an eight-under 64 for the day, the very best efficiency over the primary two days. Coming off two consecutive title wins this yr, the 22-year-old Jarvis admitted he was excessive on confidence.
“The greens have been a bit softer this morning, so I took benefit of that on my entrance 9. Then the rain helped on the again 9. I’m simply working on confidence in the intervening time. I believe it’s the right preparation (for Augusta),” Jarvis mentioned.
In the meantime, with the reduce projected at four-over, solely two Indians – veteran Om Prakash Chouhan and 18-year-old Manoj S — are anticipated to stay in motion over the weekend, whilst USA’s Akshay Bhatia hovered dangerously shut, staying simply over the mark with two holes to go.
Prime scores (Spherical Two incomplete):
136: Eugenio Chacarra (Esp, 67-69); 137: Casey Jarvis (RSA, 73-64); 138: MJ Daffue (RSA, 71-67); 139: Freddy Schott (Ger, 71-67); 141: Nick Voke (NZ, 74-67), Matthew Baldwin (Eng, 72-69), Quim Vidal (Esp, 70-71); 143: Ewen Ferguson (Sco, 70-73), Darius Van Driel (Ned, 73-70), Andy Sullivan (Eng, 72-71), Yurav Premlall (RSA, 71-72), Ryan Peake (Aus, 71-72); 144: Tom Vaillant (Fra, 74-70), Dylan Fritelli (RSA, 71-73), Matteo Manassero (Ita, 72-72), Francesco Molinari (Ita, 72-72), Om Prakash Chouhan (Ind, 73-71).
Revealed on Mar 27, 2026