AP Characterize/Darron Cummings
Patrick Cantlay will likely be midway to a victory at the 2021 Memorial Occasion.
He is tied for the lead with Jon Rahm at Muirfield Village Golf Membership in Dublin, Ohio, after capturing a 5-below 67 in Friday’s second spherical.
Cantlay and Rahm are tied after a day when a realizing allotment of the field had to live the first spherical earlier than starting the second thanks to moist prerequisites slicing play fast on Thursday.
Some, alongside with Rahm, did no longer even live their second spherical since every thing was as soon as pushed wait on from the preliminary delays. The second spherical will resume Saturday morning at 8 a.m. ET.
The beefy leaderboard would possibly maybe possibly well moreover moreover be found at PGATour.com.
T1. Patrick Cantlay, -8
T1. Jon Rahm, -8 by 13
3. Scottie Scheffler, -6
T4. Carlos Ortiz, -5
T4. Max Homa, -5 by 14
T4. Xander Schauffele, -5 by 12
T4. Rickie Fowler, -5 by 11
Cantlay played with Jordan Spieth and Bryson DeChambeau on Friday, but he was as soon as the preferrred valuable particular person on the course in the early allotment of the day.
The 29-year-aged played 33 holes following a 4: 30 a.m. ET serious warning name after his opening spherical was as soon as nearly totally rained out. He build the groundwork with a formidable three-below 69 in that first spherical after which caught fireplace to live his second spherical with three straight birdies to jump to the solo lead at eight-below.
“We’re accessible for this form of very very long time this day that you just are going to be in a field to tear to sleep at the wheel a limited bit,” he knowledgeable journalists. “And, so, being cognizant of that and checking in with yourself, ‘are you as centered as you can moreover moreover be when strive and be,’ is key.”
He on occasion called it a “relaxing shock to birdie the remaining three” given how drained he was as soon as at that level of his spherical.
That birdie run build him atop the leaderboard earlier than the late tee times, but Rahm, who is the defending Memorial Occasion champion, tied him and must quiet in a roundabout diagram circulation him by the live of his second spherical on Saturday.
Rahm followed his three-below 69 in the hole spherical with six birdies and one bogey by 13 holes in the second spherical. If he continues to play like he did whereas notching birdies on four straight holes on Nos. 4-7, this would possibly maybe possibly well moreover moreover be refined for Cantlay to raise him off.
Rahm is allotment of a loaded field that functions a option of important names and 10 of the tip 11 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings. Spieth (-1), Rory McIlroy (E), DeChambeau (-1), Hideki Matsuyama (-4 by 14), Justin Thomas (-2) and Viktor Hovland (-2) were among these positioned to perform the sever.
Rickie Fowler (-5 by 11) and Xander Schauffele (-5 by 12) also see able to troublesome for a title.
Nobody was as soon as extra spectacular than Collin Morikawa in the first spherical, who held a solo lead with a six-below 66. That build him below the highlight on Friday, and he looked as if it would possibly maybe possibly well well be effectively on his scheme to taking the lead wait on from Cantlay when he birdied the 10th hole to pull internal a stroke at seven-below.
And then the 12th hole took place.
His tee shot on the par-three hole went into the water, and he ended up with a triple bogey and fell down the leaderboard. He is quiet in stable field at four-below by 12 in the second spherical, but this can prefer a robust effort to conquer that triple-bogey.
