Australia’s Jason Day stays firmly within the hunt on the $20m USD Genesis Invitational at the moment sitting in a tie for second halfway by means of the third spherical.
Day started the day in the identical place after opening rounds of 65 and 69 had him eight-under total – nonetheless effectively behind chief Patrick Cantlay who starred within the first two rounds with 64 then 65 to sit down 13-under.
Day’s spherical started poorly with a bogey on the second, earlier than an distinctive tee shot on the par-three sixth arrange a birdie.
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He discovered the green-side bunker off the tee on 10 however made birdie for the third consecutive spherical on the par-four gap, and backed it up on 11 with a 3rd birdie to maneuver to two-under for the spherical and 10-under total.
Cantlay, enjoying within the closing pairing of the day and one gap behind Day, is at the moment even by means of 10 holes after a birdie on the primary gap of the day was adopted by a bogey on three.
His lead stays at three photographs.
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In the meantime former Genesis champion Adam Scott surged up the leaderboard with a four-under 67 following a wild again 9.
Scott rebounded from a first-round 72 to card a 68 within the second spherical, and continued that momentum with three early birdies on holes one, three, and 6.
Two extra birdies on ten and eleven had him five-under for the spherical, however issues got here undone on the extraordinarily difficult run from 12 to fifteen. Bogeys on 12, 13 and 15 dropped a trio of photographs.
However the Aussie veteran turned it round with a birdie on the par-five seventeenth and notched his seventh birdie of the spherical on the 18th with a 33-foot putt.
His four-under 67 moved him to six-under total, nonetheless off the tempo because of his poor opening spherical however with momentum constructing forward of the ultimate spherical.
It’s a powerful efficiency given he’s solely competing within the match following a sponsor’s exemption from Tiger Woods, whose basis organises the occasion.