Luiten drops to eighth place in KLM Open, six Dutchmen in last weekend

Joost Luiten circled the second day of the KLM Open with a lane average of 72 strokes. The double winner of the tournament shows a score of -5 halfway through the tournament in Cromvoirt.

With that, Luiten, along with five other Dutch golfers, Rowin Caron, Daan Huizing, Vince van Veen, Lars van Meijel and Lars van der Vight, qualify for the final weekend.

Luiten, 37, got off to a promising start in the Netherlands’ biggest golf tournament on Thursday and scored five under par on the opening day to earn him a joint fifth-place finish.

Due to his round of 72 shots, Luiten has lost a few places in the standings, he is now tied for eighth. Caron jumped to seventeenth place after a 68 lap. Huizing (68) and Van Veen (70) also climbed. They are 41st with -2.

Van der Vigt (69) continues in the 51st. The Spaniard Jorge Campillo keeps the lead, he came out at -10 after a 71 inning. Campillo is two strokes ahead of the Italian Renato Paratore and three strokes less than the New Zealander Daniel Hillier.

Luiten started his second round well and birdied the third and fourth holes. Halfway through his inning, however, he was tied after two bogeys. In the second half of his round, he recorded a double bogey on the fourteenth hole. He closed with a birdie on the eighteenth and final hole.

In 2013 and 2016 Luiten was the best at the KLM Open. The two editions took place on a different route, in 2013 in Zandvoort and in 2016 in Spijk in Gelderland.