{"id":998,"date":"2022-08-27T05:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tour-championship-american-xander-schauffele-cuts-compatriot-scottie-schefflers-lead-to-two\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T05:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:29:04","slug":"tour-championship-american-xander-schauffele-cuts-compatriot-scottie-schefflers-lead-to-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tour-championship-american-xander-schauffele-cuts-compatriot-scottie-schefflers-lead-to-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Championship: American Xander Schauffele cuts compatriot Scottie Scheffler’s lead to two"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Schauffele won gold at the 2020 Toyko Olympics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-19 <\/strong>S Scheffler (US); <\/span>-17 <\/strong>X Schauffele (US); <\/span>-13 <\/strong>J Rahm (Spa); <\/span>-12 <\/strong>P Cantlay (US), SJ Im (Kor); <\/span>-10 <\/strong>R McIlroy (NI); <\/span>-9 <\/strong>M Homa (US), T Hoge (US), C Young (US), J Niemann (Chi)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others:<\/strong>-8 <\/strong>J Thomas (US); <\/span>-7 <\/strong>M Fitzpatrick(Eng); <\/span>-6<\/strong> C Smith (Aus), C Morikawa (US), J Spieth (US)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leaderboard<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

American Xander Schauffele closed down Scottie Scheffler’s lead to two shots after carding a seven-under-par 63 in the second round of the Tour Championship on Friday. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Olympic champion started the day five shots behind Scheffler.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Schauffele, 28, hit six birdies before carding an eagle on the final hole to cut his compatriot’s lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

World number one Scheffler leads on 19 under, following up his opening 65 with a four-under 66.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports, Schauffele joked: “I’ve got to keep my head down. Scottie’s playing really boring and solid golf.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“He’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to be doing to keep the lead. I have to stay patient.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scheffler started the tournament with a two-shot lead as players began the season-ending event on different scores determined by their place in the FedEx Cup standings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, American Max Homa hit the round of the tournament so far with an eight-under 62 while Jon Rahm equalled Schauffele’s seven under, moving the Spaniard up to third.<\/span><\/p>\n

A bogey and double bogey for England’s Matt Fitzpatrick, who shot a six-under 64 on Thursday, meant he dropped a shot and ended the second day tied for 11th.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Schauffele won gold at the 2020 Toyko Olympics -19 S Scheffler (US); -17 X Schauffele (US); -13 J Rahm (Spa); -12 P Cantlay (US), SJ Im (Kor); -10 R McIlroy (NI); -9 M Homa (US), T Hoge (US), C Young (US), J Niemann (Chi) Selected others:-8 J Thomas (US); -7 M Fitzpatrick(Eng); -6 C Smith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}