RORY MCILROY REMAINS in contention at the halfway mark of the Genesis Invitational after another impressive round which leaves him just two shots behind leader Matt Kuchar.
Having opened with a 64, Kuchar carded a two-under 69 to move into nine under at the Riviera Country Club in California on Friday.
The American mixed four birdies with two bogeys and sits ahead of McIlroy (67), Harold Varner III (68) and Wyndham Clark (68).
McIlroy, the world number one, produced another fine round, which included six birdies and two bogeys.
He capitalised on the three par-fives – the first, 11th and 17th holes – by birdieing each.
It is a congested chasing pack, with Sung Kang (67), Adam Scott (64), Vaughn Taylor (67) and Russell Henley (69) tied for fifth at six under.
The 2005 champion and a two-time runner-up, Scott’s round was the day’s best as the Australian holed seven birdies – including four on his final six holes.
Tiger Woods, whose foundation hosts the tournament, battled to a two-over 73 to fall back to a tie for 45th.
The 15-time major champion is joined at even par by Jordan Spieth (70) and Brooks Koepka (73).
Dustin Johnson is in a far better position after shooting a five-under 66 that lifted him into a share of 11th place alongside nine others, including defending champion J.B. Holmes (69).
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Where ????
Rochdale ?
He’d beat Utd routinely from there as well baby!
Arsenal, good manager..
Ireland anyone ha ha …hello red thumbs..
I don’t get the criticism of the man.
Chelsea were already off the pace in the league and basically out of the champions league when he took over.
He has them in the latter stages of two competitions and could well win both and yet all he gets is knocked.
Any club in England would be lucky to have him and hicks and Gillette left liverpool in an awful state, not rafa
Of course he wants to manage a top club. He doesn’t know how to manage without throwing money at new, usually terrible, signings. Mancini and Mourinho used to have Serie A won by November then they give Benitez a job and he makes a fool of himself every week by telling the press he needs 2 years to build etc. He did well with Valencia although they had good players back then and fair enough he won the CL but he left Liverpool in a terrible state.
Everton maybe, if moye’s leaves.
Why would a big club go for such a small manager?