Adrian Meronk insisted he has accepted being missed for a Ryder Cup wild card as he threatened to outscore all 12 members of the European group within the BMW PGA Championship.
After an 80-minute delay resulting from early morning fog, Meronk added a second spherical of 68 to his opening 67 at Wentworth to share the clubhouse lead with Belgium’s Thomas Detry and Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura.
Former winner Tyrrell Hatton was the best-placed of the Ryder Cup dozen within the early wave on seven underneath, with Jon Rahm and Matt Fitzpatrick each a shot additional again.
Meronk stated final week he was “shocked, sad and angry” to not obtain a choose from Europe captain Luke Donald, particularly after profitable his third DP World Tour title within the house of 10 months in May’s Italian Open on the Ryder Cup venue on the outskirts of Rome.
“I have accepted it,” the 30-year-old Pole stated at Wentworth.
“The first couple of days after were tough, but I have moved on and am focused on my game. I want to finish the season strongly and that is my only goal now.
“I know it’s easy to say, but it’s like having a bad round and letting it go. This one was a little bit tougher to accept because it wasn’t based on me and someone else made that decision.
“I definitely think it is wrong. I feel I’ve deserved it. I feel I’ve shown in the last two years that I’ve played really good on the DP World Tour. If you look at the results and the numbers, I thought it was enough, but there’s nothing I can do now.
“But I have been pretty good at accepting things in my career. I’m trying to turn all that disappointment and anger into motivation, especially this week.”
Meronk, who acquired shouts of encouragement in Polish as he accomplished his spherical, believes the captain having six wild playing cards is simply too many and that one must be held again till after the top of the DP World Tour’s flagship occasion.
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“I’d say that four would probably be reasonable and I think leaving one or two picks for these big tournaments would be a good idea,” he added.
“This time the team has been picked basically after a four-week break and then playing two small events. I think one spot should be reserved after this week at least.”
I’ve been fairly good at accepting issues in my profession. I’m attempting to show all that disappointment and anger into motivation, particularly this week
Adrian Meronk
Rahm seemed at risk of lacking the midway lower when he thinned his second shot on the primary into the face of a fairway bunker and ran up a double bogey, earlier than additionally dropping a shot on the third.
However, the Masters champion responded with an eagle on the fourth, chipped in to save lots of par on the sixth and coated his final 10 holes in six underneath par.
“None of those swings felt bad, it was just an unfortunate thing to happen on the first but you have put it on the fairway around here,” stated Rahm, who carded a closing 62 right here final yr to complete runner-up for the second time in two begins.
