Peterborough, ON (Sports Network) – Hugo Leon continued his strong play with a 6-under 65 on Friday to push his lead to three strokes after two rounds of the Wildfire Invitational.<\/p>\n
Leon, who won last week’s Great Waterway Classic, ended 36 holes at 14-under- par 128.<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Hughes carded a 5-under 66 and was joined in second place at minus-11 by Kyle Stough, who shot 3-under 68 in round two at Wildfire Golf Club.<\/p>\n
Cory Renfrew managed a 4-under 67 to move into fourth place at 10-under 132. Nick Taylor (67), Mark Hubbard (65) and Derek Berg (67) share fifth place at minus-9.<\/p>\n
Leon started from the 10th and parred his first two holes. After birdies at 12 and 14, Leon converted back-to-back birdie chances at 16 and 17 to move 12- under.<\/p>\n
The Chilean parred the next two before a birdie at the second. Leon moved to minus-14 with a birdie on the fourth. He parred three in a row from the fifth before stumbling to a bogey at the par-5 eighth. Leon bounced back with a birdie at the ninth, his last, to lead by three at 36 holes.<\/p>\n
Hughes had two birdies and seven pars on the opening nine. He traded a birdie for a bogey from the 12th. Hughes drained three birdies in a 4-hole span from the 15th to gain a share of second.<\/p>\n
Stough carded three birdies during his outward nine to move into second place at minus-11. Around the turn, he had two birdies and two bogeys on the front nine.<\/p>\n
NOTES: Leon also won the 2011 ATB Financial Classic … Fifty-seven players made the cut at 2-under-par 140 … Five earlier winners from this year — , Stephen Gangluff, Wil Collins, Riley Wheeldon, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Joe Panzeri — were among those that missed the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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