(ANSA) - Rome, October 11 - 2018 Open champion Francesco
Molinari missed the cut at the 76th Italian Open, ending his
hopes of a hat trick after his wins in 2006 and 2016.
"Neither anger nor disappointment, I accept the verdict and
I'm ready to turn the page. It's just a shame to have fallen
here in the Italian Open," he said.
"My level of play was mediocre, to be generous...Nothing
worked and I'll have to put my head down and work on
everything".
Britain's Matthew Fitzpatrick took the lead at the halfway
stage by carding a five-under par second round of 66 to move to
10 under, one clear of Denmark's Joachim Brandt Hansen and three
strokes ahead of fellow Briton and former world number one
Justin Rose.