Spain’s Ivan Cantero boosted his probabilities of securing his DP World Tour card for 2025 with a gap 66 on the Genesis Championship in Korea, which took him to the highest of the leaderboard on the closing occasion of the 2024 season.
The ultimate event of the Again 9 will decide who will retain their taking part in rights for subsequent 12 months, with the highest 114 after the occasion slated to maintain their card.
The Spaniard started the week on the bubble in 117th place, however he rolled in seven birdies and dropped a solitary shot to set the tempo at six beneath par at Jack Nicklaus Golf Membership Korea.
Cantero wanted a quick begin in Incheon and he obliged with a surprising method to a few ft on the first to right away get into the purple numbers.
He was two beneath by three when making the most of the par-five third and continued his momentum with back-to-back birdies from the sixth.
The world quantity 454 reached the flip in 31 due to a fifth birdie on the ninth and when he adopted that up with an 11-foot effort on the tenth, he was at six beneath.
Cantero blotted his scorecard when he dropped his solely shot on the sixteenth, however he responded in type by touchdown his tee-shot on the par-three seventeenth inside six ft to return to 6 beneath and set the clubhouse lead.
Dwelling duo Byeong Hun An and Hongtaek Kim, Thai Kiradech Aphibarnrat, South Africa’s Casey Jarvis, Scotland’s Scott Jamieson, Swede Jonas Blixt and Englishman Richard Mansell sit one adrift, with an additional ten gamers at 4 beneath.
These gamers embody defending champion Pablo Larrazábal and fellow Spaniards Alejandro Del Rey and Manuel Elvira, Korean pair Tom Kim and Seunghyuk Kim, New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier, Italian Renato Paratore, Dane Søren Kjeldsen, Germany’s Marcel Schneider and Englishman Todd Clements.
Eddie Pepperell’s hopes of retaining his full card for 2025 already look slim, with the Englishman opening up with a two-over-par 74, which sees him in tie for ninetieth.
He at the moment sits at 124th within the Race to Dubai rankings, with solely the highest 114 gamers assured to retain their playing cards for subsequent season.
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