Defending champion Jordan Spieth moved into a three-way tie for the lead of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas at the halfway stage after a six under par second round of 66.
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Paul Casey claimed a share of the lead with Zach Johnson and Jimmy Walker on the opening day of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
Chris Kirk, Patrick Reed and Bubba Watson are each one shot back on the par-72 course at Albany Golf Club.
What it means: It’s still very much a logjam at the top, as almost half of the 18 players in the field either share the lead or sit one shot back. “I started walking because balls have been sticking on the green so I thought it just stuck, but I guess it just crept forward that extra two feet”, the 22-year-old Texan said.
“For the majority of the round, until 15, we had as score-able conditions as possible”, Spieth said upon the completion of his second round. On the golf course, though, he remains all business.
His journey to a history-making Masters victory started a year ago, when Spieth won the Australian Open and Hero World Challenge on back-to-back weeks.
He had to work hard just to keep pace on a calm, muggy afternoon is the islands, where the wind wasn’t strong enough to blow out a match and it showed in the scoring.
For one brief moment on the back nine, there was a seven-way tie for the lead. But that’s golf and I am sure Anirban has the potential to take on the best. “I’ve played with him before at the WGC-HSBC in 2014, at a time when I was trying to get into Top-50”. “I’m going to need to maintain that to maintain the level of play”. Matsuyama would have done the same but for a quadruple bogey on the 18th hole.
“If my mom had putted, she would have shot 65”, Lahiri said.
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He responded with three birdies in a row starting at the par-5 sixth, eagled the par-5 11 and added back-to-back birdies at 13 and 14 as well. “I hope they come at the same time that they did this past year, but you just never know”.
