Second-Round Leaderboard
Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | Total |
1 | Wyndham Clark | 65 | 65 | 130 (-14) |
T2 | Xander Schauffele | 65 | 69 | 134 (-10) |
T2 | Nick Taylor | 66 | 68 | 134 (-10) |
T4 | Matt Fitzpatrick | 66 | 69 | 135 (-9) |
T4 | Maverick McNealy | 67 | 68 | 135 (-9) |
Wyndham Clark (1st/-14)
- First player in THE PLAYERS Championship history to open with two consecutive rounds of 65 or better
- Fourth player in tournament history with a 36-hole score of 130 or better; each of the previous three won by four strokes
129 (15-under), Webb Simpson, 2018, TPC Sawgrass (66-63)
129 (15-under), Jason Day, 2016, TPC Sawgrass (63-66)
130 (14-under), Wyndham Clark, 2024, TPC Sawgrass (65-65)
130 (14-under), Greg Norman, 1994, TPC Sawgrass (63-67)
- 130 ties his lowest opening 36-hole total on TOUR (others: 2020 WM Phoenix Open/finished T34, 2020 Shriners Children’s Open/finished T13)
- Fifth career 36-hole lead/co-lead in individual stroke-play events on TOUR; 1-for-4 in converting to victory (2023 Wells Fargo Championship)
- Second consecutive week on TOUR to hold 36-hole lead/co-lead; held a share of the 36-hole lead at last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and finished runner-up, five shots behind Scottie Scheffler; first player to hold consecutive 36-hole leads/co-leads on TOUR since Scheffler in 2023 (CJ CUP Byron Nelson, PGA Championship)
- One of two players with multiple 36-hole leads on TOUR this season (other: Scottie Scheffler/3)
- Third player in tournament history with a 36-hole lead of four strokes or more; each of the previous two won by four strokes
Largest 36-hole leads at THE PLAYERS
5 strokes, Webb Simpson, 2018 (TPC Sawgrass)
4 strokes, Wyndham Clark, 2024 (TPC Sawgrass)
4 strokes, Jason Day, 2016 (TPC Sawgrass)
Largest 36-hole leads on TOUR in 2024
5 strokes, Patrick Cantlay, The Genesis Invitational
4 strokes, Wyndham Clark, THE PLAYERS
2 strokes, Joe Highsmith, Puerto Rico Open
- Finished solo-second at last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard; only player with a win and a runner-up this season
- Earned his third career PGA TOUR title at the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am; all three wins have come in the last two seasons (2023 Wells Fargo Championship, 2023 U.S. Open, 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am)
- Making fifth start at THE PLAYERS Championship; made the cut for the first time in 2023 and finished T27 (DQ/2019, MC/2021, MC/2022)
- PLAYERS Championship winners who also won the U.S. Open: Lee Trevino, Jerry Pate, Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, Tom Kite, Lee Janzen, Tiger Woods, Martin Kaymer, Webb Simpson, Rory McIlroy
Miscellaneous Notes
- Xander Schauffele (T2/-10) holds his best 36-hole position since the 2023 RBC Heritage (T2); Schauffele, whose most recent of seven PGA TOUR titles came at the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open, has 15 top-10s since the start of the 2022-23 season, the second-most of any player in that span (22, Scottie Scheffler)
- Nick Taylor (T2/-10) is making his seventh start at THE PLAYERS Championship, with his best result coming in 2019 (T16); with a win, Taylor would become the first player with multiple wins during the 2024 season (won the WM Phoenix Open in a playoff over Charley Hoffman)
- Defending champion Scottie Scheffler (T6/-8) opens with rounds of 67-69 and is six strokes off the lead; no player has successfully defended a title at THE PLAYERS (best finish by a defending champion is T5 by three players: Hal Sutton/2001, Tom Kite/1990, Jack Nicklaus/1977)
- One of 22 players making their debut at THE PLAYERS Championship, Germany’s Matti Schmid (T6) leads the field with three eagles, which ties his career-high (2023 Kentucky Championship); no player has ever recorded more than three eagles in a PLAYERS Championship
- Garrick Higgo WD during the second round due to a wrist injury