THE PLAYERS: Second Round Leaderboard, Post Round Notes

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 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

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