Australians feature on International Series Morocco leaderboard
Maverick Antcliff – file photo AGM
Australasian are well represented near the top of the leaderboard at the halfway stage of the US$2 million International Series Morocco event at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam.
Queensland’s Maverick Antcliff is in outright second position and two shots from the leader Scott Vincent of Zimbabwe, but Sydney’s John Lyras and defending champion, New Zealand’s Ben Campbell, are just two shots further back in a share of 5th with Sydney’s Kevin Yuan also in the top ten in a share of 10th place and five shots from the lead.
Antcliff, who played collegiate golf in the US before turning professional, is a former multiple winner on the China Tour before joining the European Tour in 2020 and 2021. He is now back on the Asian Tour but in eight starts this season he has yet to record a top twenty.
The event which includes several LIV Golf League players, is one of a series of ten such events in which a pathway to the LIV Golf League is the reward for the successful leader of the Order of Merit at season’s end.
Last year, Campbell defeated, in a playoff, the man who would go on to lead the 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit, John Catlin who this week recorded a second round of 76 after sharing the opening round lead and is now tied for 27th.
A massive 26 players are within six shots of the lead starting the final two rounds.
