World No 3 Cameron Young surged into a share of the lead of the Rocket Classic after a nine-under 61 in the second round in Detroit.
Young climbed 68 spots to move to 10 under with his bogey-free round and shares a three-way lead with Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Fishburn.
The two-time Open runner-up made seven birdies on his front nine and threatened to become just the second player, after Jim Furyk, to shoot two career sub-60 rounds.
“It felt like I had a 10-footer for birdie on pretty much every hole. I made a bunch of them in a row on my first nine,” said Young.
“Then the putter kind of went cold a little bit for my second nine. Just really solid golf all the way through. Happy to have kind of played my way back in the tournament a little bit after Thursday.”
Young is now favourite heading into the weekend and will look to continue his great recent form that saw him finish runner-up at The Open two weeks ago.
Cameron Young is in the joint lead at the halfway point of the Rocket Classic (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
The 29-year-old won The Players Championship and Cadillac Championship earlier this year but has not been able to put together a string of strong results.
“You wonder am I missing something, why is this the way that it is, why is it not working, all those things. But when it goes well, it feels totally the opposite,” said Young.
“When it goes well, it feels like you never will play bad again. It just comes and goes. You kind of have to be ready for either one.
“At some point it’s going to get harder and at some point you’ll come out of that difficult period and it will feel easy again. It’s kind of just a game of being ready for whatever comes next.”
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Young will fancy his chances against Cantlay and Fishburn but there are 17 other players within three shots of the lead.
England’s Matt Wallace is only one shot behind after his bogey-free round of 64 and Rickie Fowler is on the same overall score of nine under.
First-round leader Peter Malnati was unable to repeat his heroics from Thursday as he made one-over 71 but is one of eight players only two shots back, including two-time major champion Xander Schauffele.
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