Gibson is now 39th on the Web.Com Tour money list and a top three of even possibly a top four this coming week might get him in through via Web.Com Tour regular season status as if he was to finish inside the top twenty five on the Web.Com Tour’s regular season money list he is back on the PGA Tour.
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Kim had a 12-under 128 total for a two-stroke lead over Furyk (64), Lucas Glover (61), Kevin Na (67) and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (64). Cauley, who was eighth in last week’s John Deere Classic, was third at Sedgefield in the 2012 Wyndham.
Charley Hull of Britain fell out of the chasing pack by missing three par putts inside 5 feet on the back nine.
He circled four birdies on his front nine, including back-to-back at hole Nos.
That week he lost a play-off to Aaron Baddeley in the Barbasol Championship but already Kim is showing signs he learnt from that experience.
Si Woo Kim, right, celebrating with his caddie Sunday after winning at Greensboro, N.C.
“Something seems unusual that I could move up the leaderboard while I wasn’t playing in a way to put me here”, Matsuyama said.
Sitting in sixth place at 9 under and three strokes back is Rafa Cabrera Bello.
It was a grand day for South Korean golf as compatriot Park In-bee won Olympic golf gold earlier in the day, but Kim did not draw inspiration from Park’s achievement. Then the putts began to fall.
Fifty-six players were still on the course when darkness suspended the second round. “They’re not following the trajectory I’m looking for, and there were only one or two good shots today if I have to choose”.
Former joint leader Rafael Cabrera-Bello could not improve on his 63 and took 68 thanks to two bogeys, while Englishman Luke Donald’s hole-in-one heroics from Thursday counted for little as he drifted to seven-under, five strokes off the halfway lead. If you get the ball in the fairway, it’s playing short, the ball is rolling.
With Glover having a chance at matching Kim’s round or even going lower, the course has yielded plenty of birdies.
Davis Love III, the tournament victor previous year at age 51, is sidelined following hip surgery.
Tim Wilkinson didn’t do enough to move into the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings. It also is the next-to-last chance to earn points for the Ryder Cup, which begins September 30. Unfortunately for the current Australian Open Champion he dropped two places and now sits outside the fully exempt status for the PGA Tour in 2017.
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Kim has served his US Tour apprenticeship, which started in 2013, and slowly but surely developed into a title contender.
