Min Woo Lee’s nightmare begin to the St. Jude Championship has continued, with the Australian posting a two-over 72 within the second spherical to stay useless final in Memphis, Tennessee.
The 27-year-old is at present sitting in 69th place with a complete of eight-over 148 after two disappointing rounds, producing three consecutive bogeys on Friday. Fellow Australians Jason Day and Cam Davis have fared higher, at present tied for thirty ninth on one-under 139.
Elsewhere, England’s Tommy Fleetwood positioned himself to strike for a primary US PGA Tour title this weekend, firing a six-under par 64 to take a four-shot lead within the weather-hit second spherical at TPC Southwind.
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Fleetwood used birdie bursts early and lateto construct a 36-hole complete of 13-under 127.
He had a four-shot lead over in a single day chief Akshay Bhatia, Collin Morikawa and Justin Rose when play was suspended for the day due to thunderstorms.
Morikawa fired a five-under 65 and was joined within the clubhouse on nine-under 131 by fellow American Bhatia, who posted a 69.
Rose was nine-under with two holes remaining when the sudden storm introduced the spherical to a halt, organisers suspending play for the day two hours later.
Fleetwood, a seven-time winner on the DP World Tour, has six runner-up finishes on the US tour, together with a playoff loss to US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley on the Vacationers Championship in June.
“Perhaps this weekend is the weekend,” Fleetwood mentioned.
“It hasn’t occurred for me but on the PGA Tour, however I’d a lot slightly be up there and never fairly get it achieved than not there in any respect.”
Fleetwood began the day one shot off the lead and received going early with birdies on the second, third and fourth – the place he rolled in a 28-foot putt from off the green.
He dropped a 16-foot birdie putt on the thirteenth to launch a run of 4 straight birdies, and had loads of cushion even after a closing bogey at 18, the place he was in a fairway bunker off the tee.
“These had been two good runs to get on,” Fleetwood mentioned of his birdie bursts.
“Yesterday I felt like I stayed very affected person, after which at present after a sizzling begin I wasn’t feeling that comfy with my swing, so truly then to get on a run after that – I hit nice photographs into 13, 14, I performed these holes actually, very well, performed them excellent.”
Two-time major-winner Morikawa climbed the leaderboard with a spherical highlighted by a gap out for eagle from the green on the ninth.
“Yeah, 127 (yards), tried to land it 125. Got here off bizarre off the face,” he mentioned.
“It nearly got here off knuckly … however simply with a breath of wind behind you, it simply appeared prefer it was diving out of the air.”
For Bhatia, coming off a career-best spherical of 62, it was a irritating day. After two birdies and a bogey within the first 4 holes he made all pars the remainder of the way in which.
World primary Scottie Scheffler, coming off his fourth main title on the Open Championship at Royal Portrush, was additionally pissed off on the way in which to a four-under par 66 that featured eight birdies and 4 bogeys.
It left him six photographs off the lead and prompted a few outbursts from the famously even-keeled American.
Scheffler, whose 4 titles to this point in 2025 additionally embody one other main on the PGA Championship, got here into the primary occasion of the tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs atop the factors standings.
The highest 70 on the record certified for this week’s match and nonetheless Scheffler’s weekend goes he might be assured of rising on Sunday among the many high 50 who advance to the BMW Championship subsequent week.
The highest 30 after the BMW advance to the Tour Championship, the place Scheffler will likely be defending his FedEx Cup playoff crown.