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Kim

Already 5-under for his round, Kim drained his tee-ball at the 177-yarder to accelerate further, eventually ending at 9-under 135. That’s just two shots behind leader Felipe Aguilar. “It was about 165 metres but the view from the tee, we couldn’t see the hole, only the top of the flag. I was aiming a little to the left of the pin and I just hit a seven iron, it was a beautiful shot and the galleries beside the green shouted out so that’s how I knew,” he said. As well as that eagle, Kim circled birdies at 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 16. He swallowed his only bogey at 17. Kim’s hole-in-one was the second of the week following Rikard Karlberg’s first-round ace at the 16th on Thursday.