Victoria, BC (Sports Network) – David Skinns fired a 5-under 65 on Saturday and jumped ahead by two strokes at the season-opening Times Colonist Island Savings Open.<\/p>\n
Skinns, who played on the Web.com Tour in 2012, sits at 10-under-par 200 through 54 holes, two shots clear of overnight leader Matt Marshall, who shot 69, and Tyler Aldridge (67).<\/p>\n
Stephen Gangluff shot 66 and moved into fourth place at 7-under. Nick Taylor (67) and Brock Mackenzie (66) follow at 6-under and 5-under, respectively.<\/p>\n
Canadians Darren Griff (68), Riley Wheeldon (69) and Devin Carrey (70) are part of a large group tied for seventh place at 4-under.<\/p>\n
Skinns began the day two strokes off Marshall’s pace and went bogey-free to jump in front.<\/p>\n
The Englishman notched a birdie at the third, then turned the trick in succession from the sixth to highlight an outward 32 and catch Marshall at 8- under through nine holes.<\/p>\n
Skinns added another gain at the 12th to grab sole possession of the lead at 9-under, then tallied another birdie on the 16th before parring out to end the day with a 2-stroke advantage.<\/p>\n
NOTES: Marshall tied for 13th at this event in 2012 … Last year’s winner Andrew Roque did not make Friday’s cut. He posted two straight 2-over 72s, which left him three strokes outside the cut line at plus-4 … The cut fell at 1-over-par 141 with 56 players moving on to the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Victoria, BC (Sports Network) – David Skinns fired a 5-under 65 on Saturday and jumped ahead by two strokes at the season-opening Times Colonist Island Savings Open. Skinns, who played on the Web.com Tour in 2012, sits at 10-under-par 200 through 54 holes, two shots clear of overnight leader Matt Marshall, who shot 69, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}