Castro falters, recovers to hike Riviera lead to 4

Luis Castro blew a two-stroke lead at the front but battled back from two down and stormed ahead by four with a 72 as Korean Tom Kim crumbled at the finish in the second round of the 2017 Riviera MVPSF Amateur Championship at the Riviera Golf Club in Silang, Cavite yesterday.

Castro failed to sustain his lead-grabbing 69 Thursday with a three-over 38 start, reeling back as Kim, two down at the start of the day, fired a 34 and took over. But while Castro recovered with three birdies against a last-hole bogey at the tougher backside of Langer, Kim faltered with two bogeys and a double bogey with no birdie to show for a 74.