{"id":415812,"date":"2023-02-17T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415812"},"modified":"2023-02-17T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:36:06","slug":"cabrera-bello-bonces-back-to-take-lead-at-thailand-classic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cabrera-bello-bonces-back-to-take-lead-at-thailand-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabrera Bello bounces back to take control at Thailand Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Four-time European tour winner Rafa Cabrera Bello bounced back from a double bogey on an island hole to shoot a 7-under 65 at Amata Spring Country Club on Friday and take a two-shot lead after the second round of the Thailand Classic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scores after two rounds in Thailand \ud83d\udcca<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThailandClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ThailandClassic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1626544364947140610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Starting on the 10th hole, the 38-year-old Spaniard had back-to-back birdies on the 11th and 12th before teeing into the water on the iconic 17th hole, which led to his first dropped shots of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you hate slow play \ud83d\ude02<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThailandClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ThailandClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p9hx7rWKMt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/p9hx7rWKMt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1626491711802290177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">After needing two putts for the double bogey, Cabrera Bello recovered right away to earn a birdie on the 18th and went on to claim six more on the front nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">That included four straights from hole No. 5 for a 13-under total of 131.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">\u201c(The 17th) is a tough hole and it was pretty windy,\u201d Cabrera Bello said. \u201cI got a wind gust, I didn\u2019t hit that bad of a shot, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">&#8220;I just kept my head down and kept focusing on what I was doing. The birdie on 18 put me right back on track and I played an excellent front nine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work over the break on my swing and trying to make it better. I feel some weeks it really clicks, other weeks it&#8217;s not quite there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trending in the right direction and happy the swing is feeling good this week and I&#8217;m making good scores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Paraguay&#8217;s Fabrizio Zanotti was two shots behind in second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">Zanotti, who has two tour wins, had four birdies and one eagle on the seventh hole before bogeying the 16th to end his day with a 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-53 p Component-p-0-2-44\">\u201cI was able to take advantage of the par fives,\u201d Zanotti said. \u201cToday it was a little tricky with the wind, you need those birdies so you can play a little more relaxed on the tough holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Component-dfp-0-2-48 apnews_article_midarticle_1\" data-card-id=\"sovrn-article-midarticle\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time European tour winner Rafa Cabrera Bello bounced back from a double bogey on an island hole to shoot a 7-under 65 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415813,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17565],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti was two shots behind in second place","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415812"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415812"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}