Nico Echavarria carded a bogey-free 63, his career-best 18-hole score on the PGA Tour, featuring an eagle at the par-5 6th to take a share of the lead at 12-under at the World Wide Technology Championship. He is the only player still bogey-free through 36-holes.
“it was a very, very good round,” said Echavarria. “Obviously everyone knew that the scores were going to be lower. Different wind, we’ve never played this wind, so I thought it was cool that no one has practiced this wind. We play a lot of holes into the wind or downwind that we didn’t play even last year, so it was interesting.
“You never think like people will make eagle on 6 and we had two in our group. Straight downwind par-5. We were hitting three shots into it yesterday and the last year, so different wind. We played well. The putter was hot, I drove it beautifully. This is probably the best I’ve felt with the driver in a long time. Got to take the positives and make a good weekend out of it.
“I didn’t know how I was going to feel on Thursday when I teed off. After my win in Puerto Rico I said I felt awful the next few weeks or even months. This time I guess you’re older, you know what to expect and really it’s going very well.”
The Colombian is seeking a third Tour victory in his 59th start, most recently at the 2024 Zozo Championship.
American Max Greyserman made two bogeys and closed with a 64 for his share of the lead. He holds his first career 36-hole lead/co-lead and seeks his first PGA Tour title in his 27th start.
“I think I’ve been playing well for a while and coming off earlier in the season, just understanding the Tour, where I belong and just building confidence, I guess, and executing just a little bit better every week. I feel like now I’ve kind of got my game in a place to where if I’m playing solid, I’m going to be at the top of the leaderboard and it’s a good spot to be and hope to keep doing it,” said Greyserman.
Carson Young followed an opening round even-par with a career-best 11-under 61 in spite of a bogey at the 4th, tying the tournament 18-hole scoring record (Roland Thatcher/R3/2008, Matthew Wolff/R1/2021). He lies in a share of third place at 11-under alongside fellow American Dylan Wu whose 65 featured six birdies in a row from the 1st as well as back-to-back bogeys from the 14th.
“It was just a pretty fun round, everything came pretty easy,” said Young. “I drove it great, hit a lot of really good iron shots. All my birdies it seemed like were inside like 10 or 15 feet. I played good, I did everything really good today, so it was a lot of fun. Just hoping to keep it going and looking forward to the weekend.
“The weather definitely helps. Less wind out of a slightly different direction made the course a little bit easier, was able to reach some par-5s or get closer up to them. Other than that, I just was hitting it good and it just came to me today. The putter got hot yesterday. I didn’t make many putts, a lot of that is with the wind, reading the putt and then having to read the wind with the putt, it was a little bit of a challenge for me. But I felt like I was hitting good putts, so I just stuck with that mindset and they started dropping today.”
Mexico native Emilio Gonzalez was disqualified after the second round due to a breach of Rule 18.3. (Provisional Ball).
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Nos. 1-50 in the FedExCup standings through the Tour Championship are locked in their positions, while Nos. 51 and beyond carry their FedExCup points into the Fall. Nos. 51-60 through the FedExCup Fall will qualify for two Signature Events in 2025: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, The Genesis Invitational. No players moved into Nos. 51-60 this week.
The Top 125 will be exempt into all Full-Field events and The Players next season and Nos. 126-150 will earn full Korn Ferry Tour status and conditional status on Tour next season.
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| Pos. | Player | To Par | R1 | R2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Nico Echavarria | -12 | 69 | 63 | 132 |
| T1 | Max Greyserman | -12 | 68 | 64 | 132 |
| 3 | Carson Young | -11 | 72 | 61 | 133 |
| 4 | Dylan Wu | -10 | 69 | 65 | 134 |
| T5 | Austin Eckroat | -9 | 68 | 67 | 135 |
| T5 | Maverick McNealy | -9 | 69 | 66 | 135 |
| T5 | Kelly Kraft | -9 | 68 | 67 | 135 |
| T8 | Sam Stevens | -8 | 70 | 66 | 136 |
| T8 | Tom Hoge | -8 | 69 | 67 | 136 |
| T8 | Ben Griffin | -8 | 73 | 63 | 136 |
| T8 | Ryan Gerard | -8 | 70 | 66 | 136 |
| T8 | Ryan McCormick | -8 | 68 | 68 | 136 |
| T8 | Joe Highsmith | -8 | 68 | 68 | 136 |
| T8 | Tom Whitney | -8 | 67 | 69 | 136 |
| T15 | Rico Hoey | -7 | 67 | 70 | 137 |
| T15 | Kevin Streelman | -7 | 67 | 70 | 137 |
| T15 | Justin Lower | -7 | 70 | 67 | 137 |
| T15 | Nick Hardy | -7 | 69 | 68 | 137 |
| T15 | Joel Dahmen | -7 | 70 | 67 | 137 |
| T15 | Matt Kuchar | -7 | 70 | 67 | 137 |
| T21 | Nate Lashley | -6 | 68 | 70 | 138 |
| T21 | Patrick Fishburn | -6 | 70 | 68 | 138 |
| T21 | Jacob Bridgeman | -6 | 69 | 69 | 138 |
| T21 | Harry Hall | -6 | 70 | 68 | 138 |
| T21 | Alex Smalley | -6 | 73 | 65 | 138 |
| T21 | Patrick Rodgers | -6 | 71 | 67 | 138 |
| T21 | Justin Suh | -6 | 69 | 69 | 138 |
| T21 | Chandler Phillips | -6 | 72 | 66 | 138 |
| T21 | Martin Laird | -6 | 69 | 69 | 138 |
| T21 | David Lipsky | -6 | 71 | 67 | 138 |
| T21 | Sam Ryder | -6 | 69 | 69 | 138 |
| T21 | Luke List | -6 | 70 | 68 | 138 |
| T21 | Adam Svensson | -6 | 70 | 68 | 138 |
| T21 | Brandon Wu | -6 | 72 | 66 | 138 |
| T35 | Michael Kim | -5 | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T35 | Tyson Alexander | -5 | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T35 | Charley Hoffman | -5 | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T35 | Henrik Norlander | -5 | 69 | 70 | 139 |
| T35 | Garrick Higgo | -5 | 70 | 69 | 139 |
| T35 | Aaron Baddeley | -5 | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T35 | Erik van Rooyen | -5 | 68 | 71 | 139 |
| T35 | Beau Hossler | -5 | 76 | 63 | 139 |
| T35 | Harry Higgs | -5 | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T44 | Chesson Hadley | -4 | 71 | 69 | 140 |
| T44 | Kevin Chappell | -4 | 75 | 65 | 140 |
| T44 | Harris English | -4 | 70 | 70 | 140 |
| T44 | Daniel Berger | -4 | 74 | 66 | 140 |
| T44 | Lucas Glover | -4 | 72 | 68 | 140 |
| T44 | Ryan Brehm | -4 | 73 | 67 | 140 |
| T44 | Wesley Bryan | -4 | 69 | 71 | 140 |
| T51 | Zach Bauchou | -3 | 76 | 65 | 141 |
| T51 | Josh Teater | -3 | 72 | 69 | 141 |
| T51 | Lanto Griffin | -3 | 72 | 69 | 141 |
| T51 | J.J. Spaun | -3 | 73 | 68 | 141 |
| T51 | Robby Shelton | -3 | 74 | 67 | 141 |
| T51 | Luke Donald | -3 | 72 | 69 | 141 |
| T51 | Trace Crowe | -3 | 69 | 72 | 141 |
| T58 | Danny Willett | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T58 | Chad Ramey | -2 | 76 | 66 | 142 |
| T58 | Blaine Hale, Jr. | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T58 | Doug Ghim | -2 | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T58 | Hayden Springer | -2 | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T58 | David Skinns | -2 | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T58 | Zac Blair | -2 | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T58 | Joseph Bramlett | -2 | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T58 | Taylor Montgomery | -2 | 68 | 74 | 142 |
| T58 | Kevin Tway | -2 | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T58 | S.Y. Noh | -2 | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T58 | Vince Whaley | -2 | 74 | 68 | 142 |
| CUT | Austin Cook | -1 | 71 | 72 | 143 |
| CUT | Taylor Moore | -1 | 74 | 69 | 143 |
| CUT | Paul Barjon | -1 | 76 | 67 | 143 |
| CUT | Austin Smotherman | -1 | 71 | 72 | 143 |
| CUT | Neal Shipley | -1 | 76 | 67 | 143 |
| CUT | Pierceson Coody | -1 | 70 | 73 | 143 |
| CUT | Adam Schenk | -1 | 73 | 70 | 143 |
| CUT | Patton Kizzire | -1 | 72 | 71 | 143 |
| CUT | Trey Mullinax | Par | 76 | 68 | 144 |
| CUT | Roger Sloan | Par | 77 | 67 | 144 |
| CUT | Callum Tarren | Par | 78 | 66 | 144 |
| CUT | William Moll | Par | 72 | 72 | 144 |
| CUT | Martin Trainer | +1 | 73 | 72 | 145 |
| CUT | Sean O'Hair | +1 | 73 | 72 | 145 |
| CUT | Scott Piercy | +1 | 74 | 71 | 145 |
| CUT | Omar Morales(a) | +1 | 71 | 74 | 145 |
| CUT | Carl Yuan | +1 | 72 | 73 | 145 |
| CUT | Jhonattan Vegas | +1 | 72 | 73 | 145 |
| CUT | Hayden Buckley | +1 | 76 | 69 | 145 |
| CUT | Ben Taylor | +1 | 75 | 70 | 145 |
| CUT | Norman Xiong | +1 | 71 | 74 | 145 |
| CUT | Rafael Campos | +1 | 73 | 72 | 145 |
| CUT | K.H. Lee | +2 | 74 | 72 | 146 |
| CUT | Ryan Moore | +2 | 76 | 70 | 146 |
| CUT | S.H. Kim | +2 | 78 | 68 | 146 |
| CUT | Santiago de la Fuente | +2 | 77 | 69 | 146 |
| CUT | Matti Schmid | +2 | 73 | 73 | 146 |
| CUT | Chez Reavie | +2 | 74 | 72 | 146 |
| CUT | Tyler Duncan | +2 | 72 | 74 | 146 |
| CUT | Adrien Dumont de Chassart | +2 | 75 | 71 | 146 |
| CUT | Kevin Dougherty | +2 | 74 | 72 | 146 |
| CUT | Isidro Benitez | +2 | 71 | 75 | 146 |
| CUT | Will Gordon | +3 | 69 | 78 | 147 |
| CUT | Matt NeSmith | +3 | 78 | 69 | 147 |
| CUT | Keith Mitchell | +3 | 75 | 72 | 147 |
| CUT | Austin Hitt | +3 | 75 | 72 | 147 |
| CUT | Cameron Champ | +4 | 77 | 71 | 148 |
| CUT | Camilo Villegas | +4 | 77 | 71 | 148 |
| CUT | Billy Andrade | +4 | 75 | 73 | 148 |
| CUT | Dylan Brack(a) | +4 | 74 | 74 | 148 |
| CUT | Tim Wilkinson | +5 | 74 | 75 | 149 |
| CUT | Raul Pereda | +5 | 77 | 72 | 149 |
| CUT | Mark Geddes | +5 | 74 | 75 | 149 |
| CUT | Alejandro Tosti | +7 | 82 | 69 | 151 |
| CUT | Ryan Palmer | +7 | 78 | 73 | 151 |
| CUT | Troy Merritt | +9 | 80 | 73 | 153 |
| CUT | Wilson Furr | +9 | 79 | 74 | 153 |
| CUT | Robert Garrigus | +11 | 79 | 76 | 155 |
| CUT | Andrew Walker | +11 | 81 | 74 | 155 |
| CUT | Erik Barnes | +17 | 78 | 83 | 161 |
| DQ | Emilio Gonzalez | - | 73 | 71 | 144 |
