BMW Championship – second spherical leaderboard
-12 W Clark (US), -11 G Woodland (US), -10 JJ Spaun (US), -9 S J Im (Kor), C Gotterup (US), -8 P Cantlay (US), M Thorbjornsen (US), -7 C Morikawa (US), R McIlroy (NI), R Henley (US), M McNealy (US)
Chosen others: -4 J Rose (Eng), -3 RMacIntyre (Sco), M Fitzpatrick (Eng), -2 A Fitzpatrick (Eng), T Fleetwood (Eng), -1 A Rai (Eng)
In a single day chief Rory McIlroy mentioned he can be heading to the driving vary after falling away from the lead on the BMW Championship in St Louis.
The Masters champion started with a effective six-under-par within the opening spherical, however adopted that with a one under-par 69 on Friday.
It means he’s 5 photographs behind Wyndham Clark, with whom he shared the lead after the primary spherical.
Clark had a flawless spherical to complete on 12 underneath and leads the competition by one stroke over Gary Woodland.
The 32-year-old is the one participant within the competitors with out a bogey within the first two rounds.
“I really feel like situations have been fairly just like yesterday,” McIlroy instructed the Golf Channel after his spherical.
“The wind was popping out of a distinct route, however nonetheless very scorable. The greens are comfortable, perhaps the ball’s acquired a little bit bit extra run out on the fairways, however you may nonetheless see guys capturing fairly good scores right now.
“I did not fairly hit it nearly as good as I did yesterday, so most likely a day on the vary for me.
“I am happy with how I simply hung in there. Numerous good par putts on the again 9, particularly. The one bogey I had was with a mistake on the par-five eighth gap, however I made some actually good par saves coming in and that form of saved me in it.”
