Birdie-fest for Denny McCarthy on his second nine as he adds a 65 to his opening 60
As McIlroy explained it, “I thought if I just hit a really good 8 iron I would get it to pitch pretty much between the front edge of the green and he hole. It just got hit by a little bit of wind, it just switched on us. I hit a pretty good shot. I just misjudged the wind a little bit and it came up short, the one place you couldn’t miss on that hole.”
Séamus Power, meanwhile, carded a second round 68 to add to his opening 69 to reach the halfway point on three-under-par 137. McCarthy’s slow start – a bogey on the second and only negated by a birdie on the eighth as he turned in level-par 35 – gained momentum as the round progressed, a birdie on the 10th followed by a hat-trick of birdies from the 13th and then a closing birdie on the 18th. “I just stayed really patient until I found a nice groove,” said McCarthy.
In the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the second of five Majors on the women’s circuit, China’s Xiyu Lin followed up her opening round 67 with a 71 to reach the midpoint on four-under-par 138 at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey. Lin led by one shot from South Africa’s Lee Ann Price on 139, with China’s Ruoning Yin a shot further back on two-under 140.
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