New Leaders at Ledgestone
New Leaders at Ledgestone
2024 DGPT - Ledgestone Open — Round 2 Recap
It's a wild one in the Peoria, Illinois area and the 2024 Disc Golf Pro Tour+ Discraft's Ledgestone Open presented by GRIPeq is only at the halfway mark.
There was a massive shakeup in both the FPO and MPO divisions on Friday, including a pair of new leaders heading into the weekend.
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Holyn Handley opened up a four-stroke lead with a tie of the hot round at Sunset Hills — a 1016-rated, 8-under par showing that was matched by Hailey King and Eliezra Midtlyng, who both jumped 18 spots into a tie for third. Lisa Fajkus kept her spot on the lead card and is four back of Handley and two ahead of King and Midtlyng, who will round out the lead card.
Also in a tie for third are Stacie Rawnsley (up 9 spots after Friday), Rebecca Cox, Ohn Scoggins and Missy Gannon, whose even-par round dropped her from a two-stroke lead after Thursday's opener.
Handley did her work off the tee with 17-of-19 fairway hits and an 83% mark in C2 in regulation, and added a big putt early to get her round going.
The weekend at Lake Eureka Temp will begin with an entirely-new lead card in MPO led by, you guessed it, Gannon Buhr.
Buhr jumped from the third card to a two-stroke lead with a 1086-rated, 11-under round — the hottest of the week so far by two strokes — on Friday. Buhr did so with a bogey and three OB strokes and had just two looks from C2, one of which he connected on. Friday was the third-straight tournament in which Buhr turned in a 1080-plus rated round.
Following his scorcher were Kyle Klein, Calvin Heimburg and Isaac Robinson with 9-under rounds lifted them on to Saturday's lead card. They jumped six, 12 and 23 spots, respectively.
Klein sits in second at 16-under, Heimburg third at 15-under and Robinson fourth at 13-under in a tie with Luke Taylor, G.T. Hancock, Jakub Semerád, Aaron Gossage and Emerson Keith.
There's a little separation, but not much, as the field is now chasing the No. 1 player in the Official Disc Golf World Rankings and the highest-rated player in the world in the 19-year-old Buhr.