Olympic champion Xander Schauffele produced a grandstand end to breathe some much-needed life into the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
World primary Scottie Scheffler, who began the week on 10 underneath par because the participant with probably the most FedEx Cup factors forward of the season finale, was 5 photographs clear after the opening spherical at East Lake.
And though the Masters champion remained out in entrance with a bogey-free 66 on Friday, he noticed his lead slashed to 2 photographs as taking part in accomplice Schauffele completed birdie, birdie, eagle in his 63.
“It’s only the second round of the tournament, so I was just trying to go out there and play solid golf,” Scheffler informed Sky Sports.
“If anything I would have wished to see a few more putts going in, but at the end of the day no bogeys and keeping a clean card is pretty nice.”
With Scheffler overlaying the primary three holes in two underneath par and Schauffele taking part in them in a single over, the hole between the Ryder Cup team-mates was as a lot as eight photographs.
However, Schauffele adopted his bogey on the third with birdies on the fourth and sixth and lined the again 9 in simply 29 photographs to maintain the pressure on.
“I saw he was quite a far pace ahead, but I just kind of peeked at the board and saw a bunch of guys shot some good scores,” Schauffele mentioned.
Scottie Scheffler (left), speaks with Xander Schauffele after their second spherical of the Tour Championship (Steve Helber/AP)
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“So I just knew if I could kind of hang tight, control my golf ball a little better, we’re going to have plenty of looks coming in.”
Former US Open champion Jon Rahm additionally shot 63 to path Scheffler by six photographs, with defending FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay and Sungjae Im a stroke additional again.
“It’s going to take a really strong weekend from me and hopefully not a strong one from Scottie. That’s kind of what we’re looking for,” Rahm mentioned.
“I think tomorrow could be a good day. If I can post another good round again tomorrow and he doesn’t shoot a low one, we’ll be in position.”
Rory McIlroy is 9 photographs off the lead following a second consecutive 67.
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