Guido van der Valk put up a solid start but only pulled ahead on a stirring eagle-spiked windup as he led the assault on Mimosa Plus' Acacia Lakeview course with a 66, one stroke ahead of four others after 18 holes of the ICTSI Mimosa Plus Championship in Pampanga on Tuesday.
After birdying the first three odd-numbered holes, Van der Valk reeled back with a miscue on the par-3 No. 13 on what he described as a 'sloppy' shot but closed out with a birdie-eagle-par-birdie feat to string a pair of 33s and surge past Nilo Salahog, Reymon Jaraula, Japanese Toru Nakajima and Taiwanese Ting Yu Chen.
So that's the key,' said van der Valk, who also credited his wife Lorabelle's help on his bag.'I'm lucky, my wife caddied for me, so she kept me cool and I was good,' he added.Salahog also did good and found himself in the early mix again although this time, he vowed to keep going and get a clear shot at the elusive first PGT crown.
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