US Open champion and world No.2 Dustin Johnson fired a Crooked Stick course record to surge into a tie for the lead at the BMW Championship.
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He and Johnson lead Paul Casey by three strokes.
Johnson recorded 27 putts in his 9-under second round and attributed his good scoring to a flatstick he only put into play Thursday after hitting one practice putt, a holed 30 footer.
“I guess no one was ever better than 63”, Johnson said with a shrug and a smile.
“I do better on tougher courses sometimes”, he told reporters. “Hit a lot of good iron shots, but I really rolled the putter nicely”.
Johnson collected two eagles, holing a 15-yard bunker shot at the par-five ninth and sinking a 25-foot putt at the 15th en route to his sizzling score at Crooked Stick in Carmel. He followed with a 15-foot eagle putt at the 15th and a clutch 21-foot par putt at 16th.
I just felt like I have been putting it pretty well, but I was just struggling to get my putter on the line that I was seeing and so I just grabbed one of these putters and started rolling it and Itsy Bitsy Spider – it’s a smaller Spider, the same one Jason Day uses.
“I’m not hitting those quite as good as I would like to but I’m getting there”.
Adam Scott and Jason Day are clinging to top-five Fedex Cup positions despite dropping down the leaderboard on on the second day of the BMW Championship in IN today, the penultimate tournament of the US PGA Tour season.
Known as one of the shortest drivers on tour while Johnson is one of the longest, Castro is proof of the long held “drive for show putt for dough” theory in golf.
“Seventeen is just hard”, Sucher said.
Rory Mcllroy shoots 68 over two days.
The top five in points can simply win the 30-man event for the bonus payoff. They were at 4-under 140, 10 shots out of the lead.
The Queenslander acknowledged he is a long way back but hasn’t counted himself out of the tournament yet.
“I played decent golf but I need to play exceptional this weekend to have a chance”, Scott said.
McIlroy, last week’s Deutsche Bank Championship victor, shot an even-par 72 in a round that included four bogeys. “Got going coming back and was thinking about birdies”.
“Nice to turn it around and hopefully I can put together something similar this weekend and climb up the leaderboard”, Day said. “Six dropped from inside of seven feet with a long of 18’8” at the par-3 17th.
Castro sank a 17-foot birdie putt at the second and drained a stunner from 54 feet to birdie the fourth, but the highlight shot of his round was a 41-foot chip-in birdie at the 14th.
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His only bogey for the day came at 16 after a three putt from 45 feet. He is tied for fourth place with Chris Kirk at 10 under.
