Justin Rose surged right into a four-shot lead on the midway level of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open as he seeks a second victory at Torrey Pines.
The 45-year-old Englishman added a seven-under 65 on the harder South Course to his opening 62 over the North Course to signal for a 17-under-par whole.
After making a 15-footer for birdie on the third, Ryder Cup star Rose transformed from eight toes for eagle on the sixth earlier than back-to-back positive factors on the eighth and ninth.
Justin Rose has prolonged his lead on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open after two rounds
After dropping a shot on the twelfth, Rose added additional birdies on the thirteenth, seventeenth and the final to pull 4 away from Eire’s Seamus Energy.
“I knew I was going to have a decent lead [but] I was thinking to myself it doesn’t change how you’re going to play this golf course, ” Rose stated. “You must be respectful.
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Justin Rose celebrated an excellent second spherical on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open in sensible and distinctive approach.
“I felt like final 12 months was a pleasant step again in the proper confidence course. I felt like ending runner-up on the Open at Troon in 2024, I felt I performed the proper approach on Sunday and I might have received there if Girl Luck had been on my facet.
“The identical on the (2025) Masters – the Saturday was the spherical that killed me there however I performed the golf to win that match. On the proper moments I have been feeling my greatest.
“I’m chasing goals, I’m chasing Majors, I’m chasing big accomplishments but at the same time I’m trying to chase good memories.
“I have been doing this a very long time and I solely actually need to preserve doing it if I am having enjoyable doing it and placing myself in some enjoyable conditions, and that is what we’re doing proper now.”
Energy carded a 66 to succeed in 13 below, with People Joel Dahmen and Max McGreevy sharing third on 11 below.
Brooks Koepka, on his return to the PGA Tour, made the lower on three below after enhancing on his opening spherical by 5 photographs with a 68.
After Koepka agreed a launch from his contract with the Saudi breakaway LIVGolf collection a 12 months early on the finish of the 2025 season, the PGA Tour launched a hastily-written Returning Members Programme to accommodate the five-time main winner again into the fold.
“I thought I played pretty well,” Koepka stated. “68 was kind of the worst I could have shot today. It could easily have been a 64 or 65.
“Two extra rounds to play, which I am enthusiastic about.
“I’ve never got so many congratulations on making a cut before. It just feels good, I want to be able to play two more days and challenge myself and see where it’s at.”
The longest energetic streak of made cuts on the PGA Tour additionally got here to an finish as Xander Schauffele failed to succeed in the weekend for the primary time in 73 occasions – a run stretching again to the 2022 Masters.
Of all locations, Schauffele missed the lower in his hometown.
“I don’t like missing cuts – I think my record proves that,” Schauffele stated.
“But it’s actually kind of nice, to be honest, if I was going to pick a spot. I get to hang out with my family. … All said and done it’s probably the best place to miss it.”
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