Scottie Scheffler was in a rush to say his supremacy because the second spherical of the Hero World Problem bought underway below vivid skies on the Albany course on Friday.
The defending champion notched up seven birdies on the entrance 9 (making par on the fifth and eighth) and yet another within the 14th to return a card of 8-under-64 and a two-day complete of 131 for a two-stroke lead over fellow-Main winner Justin Thomas and the fast-rising Akshay Bhatia.
“I didn’t actually should make very many lengthy birdie putts on the entrance 9. I simply was actually stable on the greens and was capable of hit it shut as properly,” was the World No. 1’s matter-of-fact response to a question on making six birdies over the primary seven holes.
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Whereas Thomas, second in a single day, performed characteristically properly for a 67, with 5 birdies and a dropped shot, it was the debutant Bhatia who caught one’s consideration.
The 22-year-old, wiry leftie with two PGA Tour titles to his title, made seven birdies with three of them on par-5 holes but in addition had a bogey on the eighth gap. With 14 birdies, he’s tied with Scheffler for many birdies by two rounds.
For in a single day chief Cameron Younger, it was a spherical to neglect. Beginning at 64, he needed to undergo the horrors of six bogeys and one double bogey (on the 18th) and a 75 pushed him down the leaderboard to tied-10.
Main scores (after second spherical):
131: Scottie Scheffler (67, 64); 133: Akshay Bhatia (67,66), Justin Thomas (66, 67); 135: Keegan Bradley (68, 67); 137: Sepp Straka (69, 68), Sungjae Im (69, 68), Ludwig Aberg (67, 70)
(The author is in Nassau on the invitation of Hero MotoCorp)