After Friday’s second round of the BMW Championship wrapped up from Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana, Roberto Castro and Dustin Johnson hold a three-stroke lead at 14 under overall.
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Johnson didn’t even know he set the course record until Tony Pancake, the golf director at Crooked Stick, congratulated him on the way to the clubhouse.
Scott began the penultimate playoff event in fifth place on the season-long points list knowing he can control his own fate at the season-ending Tour Championship if he remains in the top five.
Of the other Aussies in the field at Crooked Stick, Marc Leishman (five-over) appears to be headed home and will nearly certainly miss the Tour Championship, which is for the top 30 players on the points table, while Aaron Baddeley is two-under and still has a chance if he can produce his best golf over the weekend.
FedExCup points leader Patrick Reed managed a 70 while Rory McIlroy, victor of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday, was three-under after 10 holes.
When asked about the physics involved, Johnson said, “I don’t go into that stuff – as long as it goes where I’m looking”.
Compatriot Brian Harmon trails by one stroke, while Major champions Dustin Johnson and Jason Dufner shot 67s and sit two back. Kirk made five birdies on the front nine at Crooked Stick and made the turn in 5-under 31 when the horn sounded to stop play.
The reigning US Open champion joined fellow American Roberto Castro at 14-under through 36 holes, the pair three ahead of nearest challenger Paul Casey.
He followed three consecutive birdies with three consecutive bogeys on the front nine.
Both McIlroy and Spieth went even Friday, while Day scrambled to erase a first-round one-over with a five-under in the second round. “So I putted with it like the last four holes yesterday, because I didn’t get it until like late in the round”.
DeChambeau, a former SMU player who swept the 2015 NCAA and U.S. Amateur titles, birdied the final two holes for a 64.
Jason Day played a wedge out of the rough on the second hole, landed it some 30 feet short of the pin and watched it race across the green and into thick rough. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and non-members such as Wyatt and DeChambeau who earned enough money to have placed in the top 200 had they been eligible. The other players are fighting for 25 cards based on series earnings.
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Dutchman Joost Luiten, the 2013 victor, was a stroke back along with England’s Mark Foster and Italy’s Nino Bertasio.
