By way of 36 holes on the Arnold Palmer Invitational, just one participant has fired a pair of rounds within the 60s. That will be Irishman Shane Lowry, whose 5-under 67 soared him into the solo lead on the halfway level.
“Eight-under after two rounds round this place is fairly good,” Lowry stated after his spherical.
“Excited to have a late tee time right here [on Saturday] and looking out ahead to the weekend.”
Thus far, Lowry has leaned on his strengths: he leads the sector in strokes gained approaching the inexperienced and has gained nearly 4 strokes along with his putter, which is nice for sixth among the many 51 gamers who made the reduce in that class.
The 2019 Open Champion has made solely three bogies thus far this week, all of which have been attributable to misfires off the tee. He has missed the green 11 occasions total, a stunning determine since he’s traditionally correct off the tee. However his iron play and quick sport look terrific, which has made up for that minor deficiency after which some.
First spherical chief Wyndham Clark will be a part of him within the ultimate pairing on Saturday. Clark trails Lowry by two after posting a 1-under 71 on Friday, a spherical marred by a guidelines controversy on the third gap that resulted in Clark doing no wrongdoing.
Arnold Palmer Invitational Spherical 3 Tee Occasions (All Occasions ET):
- 9:20 a.m. — Max McGreevy
- 9:30 a.m. — Patrick Rodgers, Jacob Bridgeman
- 9:40 a.m. — Sam Stevens, Xander Schauffele
- 9:50 a.m. — Lucas Glover, Isaiah Salinda
- 10:00 a.m. — Daniel Berger, Ben Griffin
- 10:10 a.m. — Tommy Fleetwood, Andrew Novak
- 10:25 a.m. — Chris Kirk, Sam Burns
- 10:35 a.m. — Matt Fitzpatrick, Will Zalatoris
- 10:45 a.m. — Brian Harman, Adam Scott
- 10:55 a.m. — Nick Taylor, J.T. Poston
- 11:05 a.m. — J.J. Spaun, Aaron Rai
- 11:20 a.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Denny McCarthy
- 11:30 a.m. — Eric Cole, Byeong Hun An
- 11:40 a.m. — Tom Hoge, Patrick Cantlay
- 11:50 a.m. — Michael Kim, Robert MacIntyre
- 12:00 p.m. — Adam Hadwin, Austin Eckroat
- 12:15 p.m. — Jackson Koivun (a), Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- 12:25 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Scottie Scheffler
- 12:35 p.m. — Justin Rose, Sungjae Im
- 12:45 p.m. — Sepp Straka, Tony Finau
- 12:55 p.m. — Si Woo Kim, Mackenzie Hughes
- 1:10 p.m. — Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley
- 1:20 p.m. — Jason Day, Max Greyserman
- 1:30 p.m. — Russell Henley, Rory McIlroy
- 1:40 p.m. — Corey Conners, Collin Morikawa
- 1:50 p.m. — Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. Observe him on X @jack_milko.
