Hugh Foley is the only one of five Irishmen who’ll see final-round action at the Lacanau Alps Open in France and he finds himself just four off the lead after following his opening 71 with a 69 on day two.
The Royal Dublin man is in his first year as a professional and has had mixed fortunes in his maiden campaign. Two top-10 finishes and three missed cuts in seven starts suggest that he’s struggled for consistency, but he has a chance to make that three top-10s this week as he lies tied for 19th but just two shots off a tied for seventh and four shots off the lead.
It wasn’t so much a round of two halves but a round of three thirds for Foley, who started brightly with birdies on holes three and four, but two bogeys on eight and 10 dropped him back to level-par for the day and in danger of missing the cut as he entered the final third.
Birdies on 14, 15 and 18 saw him come charging back up the leaderboard, however, and if he can produce something in the mid-60s on the final day he could become the first Irish winner on the Alps circuit in 2025.
And it all rests on his shoulders after Ronan Mullarney, Michael Young, Robert Moran and John Murphy all found themselves the wrong side of the cutline after round two.
At the top of the leaderboard, Frenchman Quentin Debove and a pair of Spaniards in Javier Callas Roman and Jorge Maicas lead the way on eight-under, with a further three players in hot pursuit at -7.
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