The Canadian vaulted into the clubhouse lead after shooting a 2-under 70 in his morning round on Friday at the PGA Tour Signature Event in Miami.<\/p>\n
Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., is 8 under through two rounds. He was two back of the lead after Thursday’s round.<\/p>\n
Taylor was 3 under through the front nine on Friday after notching an eagle on the par-5 eighth, but slumped to 1 over on the back nine. He found the water on the par-4 18th, but managed to avoid major trouble by holing his bogey putt.<\/p>\n
“I scrambled well. I didn’t hit it probably as well tee to green today as yesterday. But scrambled really well. Made a few key putts to keep the round going,” Taylor told reporters.<\/p>\n
“Then a great save on 18, obviously hitting the drive in the water there, and walking away with a (bogey) was a good save. So overall, I just scored well today.”<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old has five career wins, including one in each of the past three years. He is 63rd in the FedExCup standings this year and does not have a top-10 finish.<\/p>\n
Fellow Canadian Sudarshan Yellamaraju is 4 under for the tournament after shooting a 6-under 66 on Friday. The PGA Tour rookie was a sizzling 9 under through 16 holes before double-bogeying the 17th and bogeying the 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian vaulted into the clubhouse lead after shooting a 2-under 70 in his morning round on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-641780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}