Richie Ramsay embraced his ‘Project 10’ setting about to hole more putts inside 10-feet, to boost hopes of wrapping-up his 2020 European Tour card.
Ramsay did just that grabbing five birdies, including his closing two holes, in a four-under par 68 to be well inside the top-20 at five-under par after two rounds of the BMW PGA at Wentworth.
The Edinburgh-based Ramsay heads to day three trailing six shots behind the leading duo of former Masters champ, Danny Willett (65) and Spaniard Jon Rahm (66) who head the Burma Road field at 11-under par.
The very affable Edinburgh-based golfer dropped a shot at the first but then for a second day running birdied the fourth along with the 12th and 14th holes ahead of draining a 25-footer at the par-5 17th and then landing a gap-wedge to nine-feet at the last.
Ramsay’s day two score is only a seventh occasion in 34 rounds of Wentworth has broken 70 and with lowest round third day 66 on route to a best result in 10 prior appearances of a T6th.
And helping Ramsay improve on his current 139th Race to Dubai standing was a session earlier in the week with putting guru Phil Kenyon, who helped steer Henrik Stenson to Open glory in 2016,
Ramsay said: “I was speaking with Phil Kenyon during a lesson and we were talking about my stats last year. I needed to hole out more from inside 10-feet and in as that’s where the best players in the world prosper.
“I’m calling it my ‘Project 10’.
“Inside of 10-feet I was poorer than average and that stat was bad to see but at the same time I have so much potential to get better so it was good in another sense.
“If I can improve that area, I can get significantly better. My long game is fine, if I can just improve the putting then we can really make some gains.”
The triple Tour winning Ramsay has held onto his Tour each year since his debut season but in his 21 events this year the Scot has sat out the weekend round in eight, and has a best finish of fifth at the British Masters for his only top-10.
Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox is just a shot back after a no-frills 71 and to make the Wentworth halfway cut for a first occasion in three appearances.
Ramsay said: “I was speaking with Phil Kenyon during a lesson and we were talking about my stats last year. I needed to hole out more from inside 10-feet and in as that’s where the best players in the world prosper.
“I was poorer than average. That stat was bad to see but at the same time I have so much potential to get better so it was good in another sense.
“If I can improve that area, I can get significantly better. My long game is fine, if I can just improve the putting then we can really make some gains.”
The triple Tour winning Ramsay has held onto his Tour each year since his debut season but in his 21 events this year the Scot has sat out the weekend round in eight, and has a best finish of fifth at the British Masters for his only top-10.
