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Brandon Moyo at Royal Harare Golf Club
SEVEN Zimbabwean professional golfers have made the cut into the final two days of the 2025 FBC Zimbabwe Open taking place at Royal Harare Golf Club.
The Zimbabwean contingent that made the cut, led by Robson Chinhoi also includes Visitor Mapwanya, Ryan Cairns, Nyasha Muyambo, Shaahid Mahmed, Stuart Krog and Tonderai Masunga.
Chinhoi, a one time winner on the Sunshine Tour was the pick of the Zimbabwean golfers on round two with a brilliant four-under-par-68 which saw him jump to position seven (tied) on the leaderboard with an overall five-under-par-139.
His round was made up of five birdies and an eagle on the par-five 16th holes. He also had three bogeys. Chinhoi is six strokes behind leader, Luis Carrera.
Mapwanya shot one-under-par-1 in the second round for an overall two-under-par-142 while Cairns and Muyambo finished their 36 holes on one-under-par-143 following identical second round scores of 73.
Mahmed carded a second round 71 to finish on level-par-144 tied with Krog who played a brilliant 69 to level par having gone into the second round on four-over-par. Masunga carded a second round 70 for an overall one-over-par-145 enough to see him make the cut.
Speaking after the day’s play Krog said he was happy with how he played on Friday and hopes that some of the Zimbabweans who made the cut will be able to climb up the leaderboard over the weekend.
“I had a good day today. Thursday, the first round of the season I was very rusty, it didn’t go my way. I really fought hard on the back nine to shoot three-over. I really had to play good golf, especially in the afternoon today, it gets really harder and a lot firmer. I had a good back nine, and I managed to get into the weekend and hopefully we can keep that momentum for the next two days.
“Hopefully, similar to last year we can have a couple of guys near the back-end of the field on Saturday and Sunday and get the crowd going,” said Krog.
Carrera (-11) is enjoying a narrow one-stroke lead at the top of the leaderboard with MJ Viljoen following in second on -10.
Hennie Otto, Martin Rohwer and Austin Bautista are tied for third on -7. – @brandon_malvin
