Everything you need to know from round two at Muthaiga Golf Club.
John Parry grabbed the solo lead after keeping the bogeys off his card again, while a local amateur put on a show for the home crowds on day two of the 2025 Magical Kenya Open presented by absa.
Here is everything you need to know from round two at Muthaiga Golf Club.
Hebert makes superb hole-out birdie
Benjamin Hebert closed his second-round 66 with a hat-trick of birdies, kicking off the run by chipping in at the par-three 16th before holing birdie putts on the 17th and 18th to set the early clubhouse target at 13 under par. The Frenchman was later overtaken at the top by a charging Parry but only trails by one shot at the midway point. He said: "I'm chipping pretty good at the moment. It was a very good one (at the 16th) but I was a bit surprised that it went in because from my point of view it was just a little bit right but then I was happy."
Schneider judges flop shot to perfection
Check out this sensational flop shot from Marcel Schneider at the seventh, which set up a tap-in birdie.
Van Velzen nearly makes ace...
After Eddie Pepperell made a spectacular hole-in-one at the tricky par-three 11th in round one, Ryan van Velzen went oh so close to giving the fans around the fifth green another to cheer on Friday as his tee-shot was inches from rolling into the cup.
He instead had to settle for a tap-in birdie.
....And so does Parry
Parry produced more than one shot-of-the-day contender as he impressed on Friday but the highlight of his round was surely his tee-shot at the difficult 13th, which stopped just short of the hole. He also had a tap-in birdie at the 14th after two marvellous shots there. Parry heads into the weekend with a one-stroke lead after staying bogey-free for the tournament with a 65 in round two.
Remember the name
Kenyan amateur Shashwat Harish called playing alongside DP World Tour professionals in front of bumper home crowds at the age of 15 'a big motivation' after firing a second-round 72 on his debut. Harish, who was born in 2010, is a member at Muthaiga Golf Club and received excellent support from the locals on Friday afternoon. After opening with a 74 on Thursday, Harish mixed six birdies with two double bogeys and three bogeys in the company of Jannik De Bruyn and Joel Moscatel on day two. He said: "It's a big motivation. I came into this tournament with the goal of evolving as a golfer and I think I have done that. And definitely I want to be on Tour and it's going to be so much fun."
