Tony Finau closed with three consecutive birdies to match his career low round with a second-round 8-under 62. He takes a four-shot lead into the weekend in the weather-affected Cadence Bank Houston Open.
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“I hit it nicely. I thought I just took the momentum that I had from yesterday. I finished 5-under on my last nine yesterday and I just rolled that momentum right into today. I thought I made a huge putt for par on No. 1 and then I was kind of off to the races. I almost made a hole-in-one on No. 2 and just kind of cruising from there. It was a really nice round of golf,” said the American.
“I didn’t take a day off from last week until this week, just meaning I wanted to just be sharp. I was not very sharp last week. I played some good stretch of golf mixed with a lot of bad stretches of golf, so I just wanted to be a little sharper and play some better golf and within myself and I’ve been able to do that these first couple days.”
American Patrick Rodgers closed with a 63 to move into second place at 9-under.
Fellow American Tyson Alexander (66) is tied in third place at 8-under with Sweden’s Alex Noren who had three holes left in his round when play was suspended for the day.
China’s Carl Yuan (66) and American James Hahn (65) share fifth place at 7-under.
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| Pos. | Player | To Par | Thru | R1 | R2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony Finau | -13 | F | 65 | 62 | 127 |
| 2 | Patrick Rodgers | -9 | F | 68 | 63 | 131 |
| T3 | Tyson Alexander | -8 | F | 66 | 66 | 132 |
| T3 | Alex Noren | -8 | 15 | 65 | - | 65 |
| T5 | James Hahn | -7 | F | 68 | 65 | 133 |
| T5 | Carl Yuan | -7 | F | 67 | 66 | 133 |
| T7 | Wyndham Clark | -6 | F | 66 | 68 | 134 |
| T7 | Mackenzie Hughes | -6 | F | 66 | 68 | 134 |
| T7 | Aaron Rai | -6 | F | 70 | 64 | 134 |
| T7 | Ben Griffin | -6 | F | 67 | 67 | 134 |
| T7 | Ben Taylor | -6 | F | 66 | 68 | 134 |
| T7 | Trey Mullinax | -6 | 12 | 67 | - | 67 |
| T7 | Aaron Wise | -6 | 12 | 65 | - | 65 |
| T14 | Davis Riley | -5 | F | 71 | 64 | 135 |
| T14 | Joel Dahmen | -5 | F | 67 | 68 | 135 |
| T14 | Adam Hadwin | -5 | F | 70 | 65 | 135 |
| T14 | Alex Smalley | -5 | F | 71 | 64 | 135 |
| T14 | Joseph Bramlett | -5 | F | 70 | 65 | 135 |
| T14 | Austin Cook | -5 | 16 | 68 | - | 68 |
| T14 | Scottie Scheffler | -5 | 13 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T14 | Russell Knox | -5 | 10 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T22 | Gary Woodland | -4 | F | 69 | 67 | 136 |
| T22 | Keith Mitchell | -4 | F | 66 | 70 | 136 |
| T22 | Justin Rose | -4 | 14 | 67 | - | 67 |
| T25 | Stephan Jaeger | -3 | F | 70 | 67 | 137 |
| T25 | Scott Piercy | -3 | F | 67 | 70 | 137 |
| T25 | Brendan Steele | -3 | F | 67 | 70 | 137 |
| T25 | Si Woo Kim | -3 | F | 68 | 69 | 137 |
| T25 | Martin Laird | -3 | F | 68 | 69 | 137 |
| T25 | Justin Suh | -3 | F | 69 | 68 | 137 |
| T25 | Byeong Hun An | -3 | 10 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T25 | S.H. Kim | -3 | 10 | 68 | - | 68 |
| T25 | Zecheng Dou | -3 | 8 | 67 | - | 67 |
| T25 | Brent Grant | -3 | 8 | 67 | - | 67 |
| T25 | Erik Barnes | -3 | 8 | 68 | - | 68 |
| T25 | Travis Vick (a) | -3 | 8 | 68 | - | 68 |
| T37 | Michael Kim | -2 | F | 70 | 68 | 138 |
| T37 | Matthew NeSmith | -2 | F | 74 | 64 | 138 |
| T37 | Harris English | -2 | F | 69 | 69 | 138 |
| T37 | Andrew Putnam | -2 | F | 68 | 70 | 138 |
| T37 | Taylor Pendrith | -2 | F | 66 | 72 | 138 |
| T37 | Matthias Schwab | -2 | F | 73 | 65 | 138 |
| T37 | Luke List | -2 | 13 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T37 | Jason Day | -2 | 12 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T37 | David Lipsky | -2 | 11 | 66 | - | 66 |
| T37 | Michael Gligic | -2 | 9 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T47 | Maverick McNealy | -1 | F | 67 | 72 | 139 |
| T47 | Callum Tarren | -1 | F | 73 | 66 | 139 |
| T47 | Max McGreevy | -1 | F | 66 | 73 | 139 |
| T47 | Stewart Cink | -1 | F | 68 | 71 | 139 |
| T47 | Sam Stevens | -1 | F | 70 | 69 | 139 |
| T47 | Cole Hammer | -1 | F | 74 | 65 | 139 |
| T47 | Zack Fischer | -1 | F | 69 | 70 | 139 |
| T47 | Davis Thompson | -1 | F | 68 | 71 | 139 |
| T47 | Eric Cole | -1 | F | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T47 | Seung-Yul Noh | -1 | 15 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T47 | Sahith Theegala | -1 | 14 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T47 | Zach Johnson | -1 | 13 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T47 | Hideki Matsuyama | -1 | 12 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T47 | Ryan Armour | -1 | 11 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T47 | Denny McCarthy | -1 | 10 | 67 | - | 67 |
| T47 | Harry Hall | -1 | 10 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T47 | MJ Daffue | -1 | 9 | 68 | - | 68 |
| T47 | Nico Echavarria | -1 | 9 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T65 | Kevin Tway | Par | F | 71 | 69 | 140 |
| T65 | Nick Watney | Par | F | 69 | 71 | 140 |
| T65 | Brandon Wu | Par | F | 71 | 69 | 140 |
| T65 | Kyle Westmoreland | Par | F | 68 | 72 | 140 |
| T65 | Paul Haley II | Par | F | 72 | 68 | 140 |
| T65 | Adam Svensson | Par | 15 | 73 | - | 73 |
| T65 | Taylor Montgomery | Par | 13 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T65 | Tyler Duncan | Par | 11 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T65 | Francesco Molinari | Par | 11 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T65 | Adam Schenk | Par | 11 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T65 | Kevin Streelman | Par | 10 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T65 | Robby Shelton | Par | 10 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T65 | Will Gordon | Par | 9 | 68 | - | 68 |
| T65 | Austin Eckroat | Par | 8 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T79 | Chad Ramey | +1 | F | 73 | 68 | 141 |
| T79 | Walker Lee | +1 | F | 69 | 72 | 141 |
| T79 | Augusto Núñez | +1 | F | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T79 | Danny Lee | +1 | 15 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T79 | Matt Wallace | +1 | 15 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T79 | Sebastián Muñoz | +1 | 12 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T79 | Justin Lower | +1 | 11 | 69 | - | 69 |
| T79 | Sean Jacklin | +1 | 9 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T87 | Zac Blair | +2 | F | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T87 | Russell Henley | +2 | F | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T87 | Taylor Moore | +2 | F | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T87 | Kelly Kraft | +2 | 15 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T87 | Richy Werenski | +2 | 13 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T87 | Henrik Norlander | +2 | 11 | 73 | - | 73 |
| T93 | David Lingmerth | +3 | F | 70 | 73 | 143 |
| T93 | Lee Hodges | +3 | F | 69 | 74 | 143 |
| T93 | Charley Hoffman | +3 | F | 72 | 71 | 143 |
| T93 | Tano Goya | +3 | F | 74 | 69 | 143 |
| T93 | Kevin Roy | +3 | F | 75 | 68 | 143 |
| T93 | Jimmy Walker | +3 | 16 | 74 | - | 74 |
| T93 | Ryan Palmer | +3 | 16 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T93 | Beau Hossler | +3 | 15 | 75 | - | 75 |
| T93 | Nick Taylor | +3 | 14 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T93 | Robert Streb | +3 | 12 | 74 | - | 74 |
| T93 | Philip Knowles | +3 | 9 | 74 | - | 74 |
| T104 | Dylan Frittelli | +4 | F | 71 | 73 | 144 |
| T104 | Jason Dufner | +4 | F | 75 | 69 | 144 |
| T104 | Doc Redman | +4 | 14 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T104 | Chesson Hadley | +4 | 10 | 74 | - | 74 |
| T104 | Johannes Veerman | +4 | 8 | 74 | - | 74 |
| T104 | Scott Harrington | +4 | 8 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T110 | John Huh | +5 | F | 72 | 73 | 145 |
| T110 | Sepp Straka | +5 | F | 78 | 67 | 145 |
| T110 | Chris Stroud | +5 | 16 | 72 | - | 72 |
| T110 | Adam Long | +5 | 11 | 70 | - | 70 |
| T110 | Trevor Werbylo | +5 | 10 | 71 | - | 71 |
| T110 | Brandon Matthews | +5 | 8 | 76 | - | 76 |
| T116 | Ryan Brehm | +6 | F | 71 | 75 | 146 |
| T116 | Lukas Euler | +6 | F | 72 | 74 | 146 |
| T116 | Sam Burns | +6 | 13 | 77 | - | 77 |
| T119 | Cameron Champ | +7 | F | 74 | 73 | 147 |
| T119 | Ben Kern | +7 | F | 71 | 76 | 147 |
| T119 | Ben Martin | +7 | 16 | 75 | - | 75 |
| T119 | Carson Young | +7 | 8 | 75 | - | 75 |
| T123 | Kramer Hickok | +8 | F | 73 | 75 | 148 |
| T123 | Dean Burmester | +8 | F | 71 | 77 | 148 |
| 125 | Peter Malnati | +11 | 15 | 78 | - | 78 |
| 126 | Garrick Higgo | +12 | F | 78 | 74 | 152 |
| W/D | Danny Willett | - | 75 | 54 | 129 | |
| W/D | Jim Herman | - | 74 | 55 | 129 | |
| W/D | Anders Albertson | - | 76 | 63 | 139 | |
| W/D | Austin Smotherman | - | 80 | 58 | 138 | |
| W/D | Erik van Rooyen | - | 75 | 48 | 123 | |
| DQ | Mark Hubbard | - | 75 | 74 | 149 |
