Remember the guy who shot 63 on Sunday at the Open Championship two weeks ago?
He’s baaaaaaaack!
Henrik Stenson has been nothing short of solid, steady and consistent after two days at Baltusrol.
Looks a lot like he did two weeks ago at Royal Troon, looks like the man to beat going into the weekend at the PGA Championship.
Stenson and the rest of the morning players found themselves facing a receptive course that took a little more than an inch of rain overnight then some more on Friday morning that delayed play for 45 minutes.
That made the greens ripe for Stenson’s laser-like iron shots.
He shot another 67 and got to six-under par, a shot in front of overnight leader Jimmy Walker.
While Stenson was nearly perfect, so was Patrick Reed and to some degree, his former Ryder Cup teammate Jordan Spieth.
Reed put up the morning’s low round, a 65 that parked him a shot behind Stenson at five-under par.
Spieth, who turned 23 this week, started finding the iron game that he has been looking for most of this season. He hit 16 of 18 greens Friday and shot 67 to put himself in the championship hunt going into the weekend.
Spieth might have been up there with Stenson, had it not been for the seventh hole.
Spieth made double-bogey there in the first round then on Friday, pushed his tee shot. “Fore, way right!” Spieth screamed from the tee. He landed on a puddle-infested cart path and after fiddling around with a PGA official for more than 20 minutes, he finally played his second shot and blew it over the green. He would go on to make bogey to put him three-over on that hole after two trips to it.
Another big name is right up there with the rest.
Martin Kaymer, winner of the 2014 U.S. Open and the 2010 PGA, added a 69 to his first-day 66 to tie Reed at five-under.
