Justin Thomas turned right into a two-shot lead at the halfway point of this CJ Cup in Korea after firing a superb nine-under 63 in the next round.
Thomas managed to construct holing his birdie putt of the day to scale to 13 under par two ahead of leader Byeong Hun An along with Korean-born New Zealander Danny Lee and birdied the first four holes.
Jordan Spieth improved his prospects of a first win since The Open for a succession of mistakes contributed which left him 11 strokes off the speed and also outside the upper 50, but winner Brooks Koepka went in the other direction.
There were no such problems for entire world No 5 Thomas as he adopted his own flyer with another profit in the eighth and three in five holes after the turn.
Thomas kept the mistakes at bay and also atoned for his bogey-six in the 18th on Thursday with a good birdie to close out a 63 which he explained as”effortless”.
“That was, I’d say, overall one of the better rounds I’ve played in a little while,” he explained. “It arrived very easy. I felt like all the putts I made were not anything mad.
“The putt on 10 was probably the hardest one I had, however for the large part, I had them in the appropriate areas for where they were fairly easy putts or closer to the hole. I never actually had to worry a lot out there, that is undoubtedly a bonus.”
An slept about the overnight lead and started day two with a nervy bogey at the 10th, but the home museums were soon cheering because he recovered with a birdie at the 12th and then made four in a row from the 17th, lifting him to 12 under with seven holes – and 2 par-fives – to playwith.
But the former BMW PGA winner fought over the final third of his rounded and dropped his second shot at the championship in the sixth before parring in for a 69 to stay at 11 under, a dent afterwards matched by Lee after he took a little gloss off his 66 with a bogey at the last.
Four birdies in six holes in the 12th raised Lee, who was playing with Thomas and Phil Mickelson, to 12 underneath, but he caught a wedge heavy from inside 100 yards at the last and came up short of the green, a mistake which led to a final six.
“I had a 95-yard third chance, it was back, and I was attempting to hit my 60-degree wedge a bit too hard and struck it a little bit,” explained Lee. “Got short-sided and I did not make the down and up. But apart from that, it was a really positive round.”
Spieth, still following his first victory considering lifting the Claret Jug in Royal Birkdale, recovered from a bogey at the very first with four birdies on the back nine andafter a second blemish at 11, he birdied five of the final seven holes to return a 65 which steered him under and Emiliano Grillo (66).
As he added a 68 following having a pair of 69s one farther behind together with fascinating young Norwegian talent Viktor Hovland tyrrell Hatton leads the British struggle.
But Koepka continued to struggle for form and made only two birdies from five bogeys in a 75 that leaves him outside the top-50 of this field.
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