Who is winning the 2024 Ledgestone Open in MPO after Round 2?
1st - Gannon Buhr at 18 under par
2nd - Kyle Klein at 16 under par
Tied 3rd - Calvin Heimburg at 15 under par
Quote from the leader: “It was the exact same round as yesterday with just a few shots different,” Buhr said. “Yesterday I felt like I deserved an 11 under, but a couple of bad shots prevented me from doing that. I played the last eight holes the exact same today with two birdies, two pars and finished with four [birdies] in a row. I feel pretty good coming down the stretch.”
Game-changing moment: With Buhr charging toward the top of the leaderboard, it was a matter of keeping the scorecard clean on the final six holes for the Discmania youngster to officially climb out in front. His test came on Hole 14. Even with a slow speed disc, a few degrees of extra hyzer angle gave his disc just enough energy to skip twice and slide just inches past the OB rope on the left. Subpar footing and over 450 feet to the basket over the water stood between Buhr and a par. He refocused and executed a perfect approach from distance. That was Eureka Temp’s test and he passed it. He went on to birdie the last four holes.
Summary of Round 2: The lead card just never really got going. Emerson Keith, Chris Dickerson and Aaron Gossage all had slow starts. Much like Round 1, Gossage seemingly caught fire on Hole 8 and birdied five in a row, but his momentum stalled on the difficult Hole 13 pin placement (which gave up only one birdie the entire day) and he failed to find a birdie the rest of the way. Meanwhile, several willing players took advantage from the third and fourth cards. Buhr turned in the hot round for the event so far at 11 under par while his teammate and card mate, Klein, shot a 9 under. Heimburg matched Klein’s 9 under from the fourth card. From the seventh card came the Discraft’s teenage upstart from Michigan, Luke Taylor, shooting an 8 under to move himself to the top of the chase card for Round 3 despite going out of bounds four different times. Tied with Taylor at 13 under is Isaac Robinson who rounds out the Moving Day lead card.
