Brooks Koepka missed the lower on the WM Phoenix Open, the place Ryo Hisatsune leads by one from fellow Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama.
England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick and John Parry are 4 strokes off high spot on seven underneath, with world No 1 Scottie Scheffler seven adrift after following a gap 73 with a flawless 65 to make his 66th successive PGA Tour lower stretching again to 2022.
Scheffler, at 4 underneath, remains to be within the hunt for a twentieth PGA Tour title and second of 2026 and can take inspiration from this occasion 4 years in the past, when he gained from 9 photographs again.
Nevertheless, Koepka’s week is over after he did not make the ultimate two rounds in his second occasion since coming back from LIV Golf.
The five-time main champion ended at two over after 36 holes, hitting a two-under 69 on Friday having shot a four-over 75 on Thursday.
Matsuyama surged into the lead after peeling off six successive birdies on his entrance 9 en path to a seven-under 64 however was then eclipsed by compatriot Hisatsune, whose eight-under 63 took him to 11 underneath at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona.
Hisatsune was six underneath for his again 9 after 4 birdies and an eagle between 13 and 17, chipping in for a achieve on his penultimate gap having pushed into the water.
Pierceson Coody and first-round chief Chris Gotterup are joint-third on eight underneath, one forward of a pack together with Fitzpatrick, Parry and South Korea’s Si Woo Kim – the latter taking pictures a round-of-the-day nine-under 62.
Kim registered eight birdies and an eagle after beginning his second spherical with a bogey.
Parry, who earned a PGA Tour card by dint of his performances on final yr’s DP World Tour, carded an eventful five-under 66.
He made eight birdies, together with 4 on the trot from the thirteenth, and three bogeys.
Fitzpatrick’s one-under 71 featured birdies at his second and third holes earlier than a run of eight straight pars preceded three bogeys, two birdies and two pars throughout his final seven.
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