Zozo Championship R2

Rickie Fowler & Andrew Putnam tied for the lead

Andrew Putnam carded a bogey-free 62 on Friday to take a share of the lead at 10-under in the Zozo Championship.

“No bogeys I think through the first 36 holes, so that’s obviously great. First group off, so the greens were really smooth and rolled it really well, made a lot of putts.

“There’s a couple tough holes that you’ve got to try to make pars and survive those ones. Just a lot of birdie chances out there. Greens are soft and just played really, really steady today.

“I’ve been playing well for the last few months, so I’m just trying to keep it going. Putter’s heating up. This course feels a lot like home, northwest golf. Obviously the clouds, I’m used to that, a lot of trees, and greens are rolling really smooth, so feel pretty comfortable out here.”

Fellow American Rickie Fowler carded an equally bogey-free 63 for his share of the lead.

“Felt like I did a good job of kind of just focusing, staying kind of present and trying to keep moving forward. It’s always nice to have a clean card. I think that was the biggest difference from yesterday to today. Obviously not as much moisture, we had a nice dry day, but on top of that, for me, just kind of cleaning up the card and managed my way around really nicely today,” said Fowler.

“The last two days I wasn’t exactly swinging it great. Like I said, I kind of did a good job of managing my way around. I’ll get some work in tomorrow before the round and try and exaggerate a few things where I’m a little bit tighter in lines and flights that I want. Like I said, I just did a good job of accepting what I had and kind of moving forward with that.

Keegan Bradley’s own bogey-free 65 places him in third place at 9-under followed at 8-under by another American, John Huh, whose bogey-free 61 was the low round of the day.

Japan’s Keita Nakajima rounds out the top-5 at 7-under.

Overnight leader Brendan Steele carded a 73 and lies in T24 at 3-under.

Pos.PlayerTo ParR1R2Total
T1Andrew Putnam-106862130
T1Rickie Fowler-106763130
3Keegan Bradley-96665131
4John Huh-87161132
5Keita Nakajima-77063133
T6Matthew NeSmith-66668134
T6Sam Ryder-66668134
T8Adam Schenk-56570135
T8Collin Morikawa-57164135
T8Joel Dahmen-56867135
T8Viktor Hovland-56966135
T8Luke List-56966135
T13Ryo Hisatsune-46967136
T13Patrick Rodgers-47165136
T13Hayden Buckley-46868136
T13Maverick McNealy-46769136
T13Tom Hoge-47066136
T13Cameron Champ-46967136
T13Adam Long-46868136
T13Taylor Moore-47066136
T13Xander Schauffele-46769136
T13Satoshi Kodaira-47066136
T13Beau Hossler-46868136
T24Brendan Steele-36473137
T24Aaron Rai-37166137
T24Cam Davis-37067137
T24Wyndham Clark-37166137
T24Lee Hodges-37364137
T24Brandon Wu-36869137
T24Cameron Young-37067137
T24Si Woo Kim-37166137
T24Alex Smalley-36869137
T24Kazuki Higa-36770137
T34Emiliano Grillo-27068138
T34Mackenzie Hughes-27068138
T34Tom Kim-27068138
T34David Lipsky-26969138
T34C.T. Pan-27167138
T34J.J. Spaun-27167138
T34Sahith Theegala-27167138
T41Sebastián Muñoz-17267139
T41K.H. Lee-17168139
T41Sungjae Im-17168139
T41Troy Merritt-16871139
T41Yuto Katsuragawa-16970139
T41Dylan Frittelli-17168139
T41Scott Stallings-17366139
T41Takumi Kanaya-17267139
T49Sepp StrakaPar7268140
T49Hideki MatsuyamaPar7169140
T49Tyrrell HattonPar7070140
T49Corey ConnersPar7367140
T49Kurt KitayamaPar6971140
T54Martin Laird+17566141
T54Mikumu Horikawa+17368141
T54Tommy Fleetwood+17071141
T54Christiaan Bezuidenhout+16873141
T54Chad Ramey+17467141
T59Stephan Jaeger+26973142
T59Mark Hubbard+27171142
T59Naoyuki Kataoka+27468142
T59Matt Wallace+27270142
T59Adam Svensson+27468142
T64Hiroshi Iwata+37073143
T64Danny Lee+36875143
T64Rikuya Hoshino+37370143
T64Chez Reavie+37469143
68Mito Pereira+46777144
T69Tomoharu Otsuki+57669145
T69Kevin Streelman+57471145
T69Kaito Onishi+57273145
T72Lucas Herbert+67472146
T72Aguri Iwasaki+67670146
T74Russell Knox+77473147
T74Riki Kawamoto+77275147
T74Peter Malnati+77473147
T77Shugo Imahira+87870148
T77Davis Riley+87573148
Updated: October 16, 2022
ZOZO Championship
Date: 13th October - 16th October, 2022
Location: Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Chiba, Japan
Purse: $11,000,000