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Golf – Thomas Pieters advances to fifteenth place in Adelaide (LIV Golf Tour)

With a second round of 67 strokes, Thomas Pieters climbed from 23rd to fifteenth place on Saturday at the LIV Tour golf tournament (25 million dollars), which takes place on the Grange golf course in Adelaide, Australia. Pieters, who started on the sixth hole, put away a birdie on the seventh hole. Things went wrong on hole eight, resulting in a triple bogey. However, the Antwerp native started a strong recovery and then put away seven more birdies, resulting in a round of five under par and a shared fifteenth place. With his total score of 136 strokes, eight under par, he has six strokes more than the American Brendan Steele, who is in the lead and one stroke better than the New Zealander Danny Lee.

In the team classification, team RangeGoats GC, with Thomas Pieters and the Americans Bubba Watson, Matthew Wolff and Peter Uihlein, is in joint sixth place with a score of 28 under par. The lead, with a score of 35 under par, is for Torque GC with the Chileans Joaquin Niemann and Mito Pereira, the Colombian Sebastian Muñoz and the Mexican Carlos Ortiz.