Valero Texas Open R2

Simon Bale|April 5, 2025

Keywords: Brian Harman, PGA Tour, TPC San Antonio, Valero Texas Open

Tommy Fleetwood vows to give chase as Open history favours Brian Harman

Brian Harman made eight birdies and two bogeys for a 6-under 66 to reach 12-under and take the halfway lead at the Valero Texas Open. He leads the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (6.540) and Strokes Gained: Approach the Green (5.064)

Harman holds his eighth 36-hole lead/co-lead on the PGA Tour. He equaled the largest 36-hole lead of the season held by Aldrich Potgieter at the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld.

In nine starts this season, the American has recorded three top-25 finishes, highlighted by a T17 at The Genesis Invitational. Harman has three PGA Tour wins to his name, at the 2023 Open Championship, 2017 Truist Championship and 2014 John Deere Classic.

“It’s been pretty good, controlling my distances nicely. It’s one of the demands this place makes on you, you have to really have control of your ball. Ball lands on the green, they’re a lot firmer than they seem, and if you’re playing from out of position it’s really tough,” said Harman.

“It has been a slow start [to the season], a little uncharacteristic. I’ve been pretty frustrated, I haven’t really been able to put my finger on what it is that’s kind of holding me back. So nice to take a couple weeks off and regroup and at least have a couple nice days so far.”

American Keith Mitchell made five bogeys and signed for a 72 to stay in second place at 8-under. He is playing in his 158th start since his lone PGA Tour win at the 2019 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.

Mitchell is projected to be No. 1 in the Aon Swing 5, with the top five FedExCup points earners (not otherwise exempt) in the Puerto Rico Open, Valspar Championship, Texas Children’s Houston Open and Valero Texas Open earning spots in the RBC Heritage.

American overnight leader Sam Ryder fired two birdies and four bogeys to card a 2-over 74 and currently lies in a share of third place at 7-under alongside England’s Matt Wallace, whose 67 featured a single bogey, as well as Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune whose 67 remained bogey-free.

Playing in his seventh career Tour start, American amateur Ben James shot a 71 for a share of 13th place at 5-under, becoming just the second amateur to make the cut at the Valero Texas Open since 1983. In 2012 American Jordan Spieth finished T41.

2021 Valero Texas Open champion Spieth carded a 1-over 73 and is T22 at 4-under. After ranking second in Strokes Gained: Putting during the first round (3.224), he was 99th during the second round (-0.869).

Currently T37 at 3-under, American Tony Finau aced the par-3 16th hole with an 8-iron from 199 yards, his third ace on the PGA Tour (2020 World Wide Technology Championship/No. 4/R3, 2018 Sony Open in Hawaii/No. 17/R3). This marks the fourth ace at No. 16 and the eighth overall since the event moved to TPC San Antonio in 2010.

Defending champion Akshay Bhatia of the USA missed the cut by two strokes.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Brian Harman	-12	66	66	132
2	Keith Mitchell	-8	64	72	136
T3	Sam Ryder	-7	63	74	137
T3	Matt Wallace	-7	70	67	137
T3	Ryo Hisatsune	-7	70	67	137
T6	Daniel Berger	-6	70	68	138
T6	Carson Young	-6	67	71	138
T6	Emiliano Grillo	-6	69	69	138
T6	Andrew Novak	-6	68	70	138
T6	Patrick Cantlay	-6	71	67	138
T6	J.T. Poston	-6	72	66	138
T6	Antoine Rozner	-6	73	65	138
T13	Henrik Norlander	-5	72	67	139
T13	Harry Hall	-5	70	69	139
T13	Ben James(a)	-5	68	71	139
T13	Denny McCarthy	-5	71	68	139
T13	Zach Johnson	-5	71	68	139
T13	Harry Higgs	-5	73	66	139
T13	John Pak	-5	71	68	139
T13	Ryan Gerard	-5	73	66	139
T13	Quade Cummins	-5	71	68	139
T22	Ben Martin	-4	71	69	140
T22	Doug Ghim	-4	70	70	140
T22	Ben Griffin	-4	70	70	140
T22	Keegan Bradley	-4	71	69	140
T22	Jordan Spieth	-4	67	73	140
T22	Maverick McNealy	-4	68	72	140
T22	Francesco Molinari	-4	70	70	140
T22	Erik van Rooyen	-4	71	69	140
T22	Tom Hoge	-4	72	68	140
T22	Sami Valimaki	-4	70	70	140
T22	Chan Kim	-4	69	71	140
T22	Chad Ramey	-4	72	68	140
T22	Rickie Fowler	-4	75	65	140
T22	Patton Kizzire	-4	70	70	140
T22	Steven Fisk	-4	68	72	140
T37	Chandler Phillips	-3	72	69	141
T37	Rafael Campos	-3	70	71	141
T37	Kevin Roy	-3	72	69	141
T37	Alejandro Tosti	-3	70	71	141
T37	William Mouw	-3	70	71	141
T37	Beau Hossler	-3	71	70	141
T37	Tommy Fleetwood	-3	68	73	141
T37	Cameron Young	-3	71	70	141
T37	Tony Finau	-3	69	72	141
T37	Justin Rose	-3	72	69	141
T37	Adam Svensson	-3	71	70	141
T37	Camilo Villegas	-3	70	71	141
T37	Nate Lashley	-3	74	67	141
T37	Noah Goodwin	-3	71	70	141
T37	Aldrich Potgieter	-3	68	73	141
T52	Patrick Fishburn	-2	70	72	142
T52	Mac Meissner	-2	72	70	142
T52	Matt Kuchar	-2	70	72	142
T52	Peter Malnati	-2	69	73	142
T52	Corey Conners	-2	71	71	142
T52	Gary Woodland	-2	73	69	142
T52	Brice Garnett	-2	74	68	142
T52	Jesper Svensson	-2	70	72	142
T52	Matthew Riedel	-2	74	68	142
T52	Thorbjørn Olesen	-2	70	72	142
T52	Eric Cole	-2	72	70	142
T52	Patrick Rodgers	-2	72	70	142
T52	Bud Cauley	-2	70	72	142
T52	Lanto Griffin	-2	71	71	142
T52	Taylor Dickson	-2	70	72	142
CUT	Trey Mullinax	-1	71	72	143
CUT	Rico Hoey	-1	69	74	143
CUT	Charley Hoffman	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Ricky Castillo	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Michael Thorbjornsen	-1	75	68	143
CUT	Kris Ventura	-1	74	69	143
CUT	Thriston Lawrence	-1	70	73	143
CUT	Martin Laird	-1	72	71	143
CUT	Ben Silverman	-1	70	73	143
CUT	Adam Schenk	-1	73	70	143
CUT	Alex Smalley	-1	70	73	143
CUT	Rikuya Hoshino	-1	71	72	143
CUT	Luke List	Par	74	70	144
CUT	Webb Simpson	Par	73	71	144
CUT	Ludvig Åberg	Par	71	73	144
CUT	Akshay Bhatia	Par	74	70	144
CUT	Joel Dahmen	Par	71	73	144
CUT	Greyson Sigg	Par	72	72	144
CUT	Mason Andersen	Par	72	72	144
CUT	Thomas Rosenmueller	Par	76	68	144
CUT	Mark Hubbard	Par	76	68	144
CUT	Matteo Manassero	Par	69	75	144
CUT	Anders Albertson	Par	74	70	144
CUT	Kaito Onishi	Par	74	70	144
CUT	Tim Widing	Par	74	70	144
CUT	Austen Christiansen	Par	76	68	144
CUT	Lee Hodges	+1	71	74	145
CUT	Hideki Matsuyama	+1	73	72	145
CUT	Justin Lower	+1	74	71	145
CUT	Paul Peterson	+1	73	72	145
CUT	Sam Stevens	+1	72	73	145
CUT	Andrew Putnam	+1	72	73	145
CUT	Sam Burns	+1	69	76	145
CUT	Si Woo Kim	+1	71	74	145
CUT	Chris Gotterup	+1	75	70	145
CUT	Vince Whaley	+1	72	73	145
CUT	Trevor Cone	+1	74	71	145
CUT	Isaiah Salinda	+1	70	75	145
CUT	Braden Thornberry	+1	72	73	145
CUT	Ryan Palmer	+2	74	72	146
CUT	Jimmy Walker	+2	76	70	146
CUT	Nick Hardy	+2	72	74	146
CUT	Victor Perez	+2	72	74	146
CUT	Philip Knowles	+2	75	71	146
CUT	Bronson Burgoon	+2	74	72	146
CUT	Ben Kohles	+2	72	74	146
CUT	Chris Kirk	+2	73	73	146
CUT	David Skinns	+2	75	71	146
CUT	Kevin Velo	+2	73	73	146
CUT	Hayden Buckley	+2	70	76	146
CUT	Max Homa	+3	76	71	147
CUT	Max McGreevy	+3	74	73	147
CUT	Frankie Capan III	+3	74	73	147
CUT	Danny Walker	+3	79	68	147
CUT	Niklas Norgaard	+3	75	72	147
CUT	Padraig Harrington	+3	73	74	147
CUT	Preston Summerhays(a)	+3	75	72	147
CUT	Kevin Kisner	+4	75	73	148
CUT	Jake Knapp	+4	74	74	148
CUT	Tom Kim	+4	77	71	148
CUT	Matt Fitzpatrick	+4	76	72	148
CUT	Seamus Power	+4	72	76	148
CUT	David Lipsky	+4	73	75	148
CUT	Jared Jones	+4	77	71	148
CUT	Blaine Hale, Jr.	+4	72	76	148
CUT	Ryan Fox	+5	76	73	149
CUT	Kurt Kitayama	+5	71	78	149
CUT	Cristobal Del Solar	+5	71	78	149
CUT	Hunter Logan	+6	76	74	150
CUT	Patrick Pockels	+6	76	74	150
CUT	Matti Schmid	+6	73	77	150
CUT	Will Chandler	+6	76	74	150
CUT	Jeremy Paul	+7	74	77	151
CUT	Paul Waring	+7	75	76	151
CUT	Aaron Baddeley	+7	75	76	151
CUT	Jackson Suber	+8	77	75	152
CUT	Vince Covello	+11	81	74	155

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Updated: April 5, 2025

Valero Texas Open 2025

Date: 3rd April - 6th April, 2025

Location: TPC San Antonio (Oaks Course), San Antonio, Texas

Purse: $9,500,000

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