Tommy Fleetwood fired a superb 63 to join American Russell Henley in a share of the lead at 13 under par after the second round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
The Englishman made eight birdies, with the only blemish to his scorecard arriving on the 16th when he left his approach well short of the flag after finding a fairway bunker off the tee.<\/p>\n
It was an excellent display from Fleetwood, who narrowly missed out on victory at the St Jude Championship and Travelers Championship earlier this season.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old is yet to win a PGA Tour event despite having 44 top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n
He joked earlier this week that he would find it “pretty funny” if he were to triumph this weekend to claim the FedExCup and a cheque of $10m (\u00a37.4m) in the season-ending event.<\/p>\n
“All I can do is keep learning from the things that I might have got. I actually feel like I’ve played very, very well when I have led the tournaments and been in contention,” said Fleetwood.<\/p>\n
“It’s just I might have not got things right at the end. It’s not like I’ve crashed and burned. It’s just that I’ve not quite finished things off.<\/p>\n
“The people that win the most are the guys that are in contention the most and then they keep winning of course. That’s just what I want to do. That’s where I want to be. I keep going.”<\/p>\n
Henley, who started out on Friday two shots clear of his playing partner Scottie Scheffler, recorded timely birdies on the 17th and 18th holes to sign for a four-under 66.<\/p>\n
His US compatriot Cameron Young sits two shots back at 11 under after a scintillating performance, featuring six birdies on the back nine, helped him to a 62, the day’s best score.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre is one shot further behind at 10 under alongside Patrick Cantlay.<\/p>\n
However, world number one Scheffler was unable to make significant inroads at the top of the leaderboard, with his 69 including three bogeys to put him at eight under. <\/p>\n
Scheffler’s performance was encapsulated when he gave a fist pump after missing a par-saving putt on the 14th in a rare show of frustration.<\/p>\n
On the same green, Ireland’s Shane Lowry holed a remarkable birdie putt from just over 97 feet – the longest in FedExCup play-offs history and sixth-longest on the PGA Tour since 2003.<\/p>\n
That arrived as Lowry surged up the leaderboard after the turn, playing the final nine holes in six under.<\/p>\n
It meant he added a 63 to his opening level-par 70 and put Lowry on seven under overall, along with Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy who enjoyed a bogey-free 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood fired a superb 63 to join American Russell Henley in a share of the lead at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-365958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115075283983953453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}