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Miguel Ángel Jiménez maintains the leadership in the American Family

Miguel Ángel Jiménez © Golffile | Eoin Clarke

Miguel Angel Jimenez (-10) remains the solo leader of the American Family Insurance of PGA Tour Champions after the second day. The Malaga golfer has delivered a 69-stroke card, with four birdies and a lone bogey and has been able to hold his head despite the attack by Fred Couples (-9), author of the best lap of the day.

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The two will go out this Sunday in the stellar match together with Retief Goosen (-8). A lot of class, a lot of golf, a lot of money in the showcases in just one ‘tee time’. Jiménez rules, but victory will not be far from easy, rather the opposite. There are eight players separated by only three strokes, a negligible distance with 18 holes still ahead. Among Miguel’s ‘hunters’ are, in addition to Couples or Goosen, Jerry Kelly, Jim Furyk O Robert Karlsson. Artillery fire.

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Jiménez signed a very solid lap today. Obviously, he has not had the shine of the 64 that was made on Friday, his best lap in 2021, but he has managed to give it continuity with a consistent day. He has been good from tee to green, without the precision of the first day, and above all he has kept the level very high on the greens. He’s kicking really good.

The key moment of the lap came at the 15th hole. Jiménez had committed his first and only bogey of the day at the 14th and his reaction was fantastic. He has made two birdies at 15 and 16 to secure the lead. In 15 he did it with a flag drive, a beautiful approach of about 40 meters and a great putt of about two.

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Jiménez will seek tomorrow the first victory in 2021, but the third of the season, since they remember that finally the PGA Tour Champions decided to unite 2020 and 2021 in a single campaign. Right now it is fifth in the ranking of the Charles Schwab Cup, so a victory would put him squarely in the fight to win the title, one of the few objectives that at the moment have resisted Churriana’s since he turned 50.

Similarly, a win this Sunday would be a fantastic feat. It would be his tenth year in a row winning at least one tournament, either in the PGA Tour Champions, where it has won at least once since it was released in 2014 to 2020, as in the rest of the circuits (it has triumphs in the European Tour in 2012 and 2013).

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