{"id":659144,"date":"2026-05-22T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:37:15","slug":"jordan-spieth-second-nine-birdie-spree-leads-to-62-one-shot-off-lead-at-byron-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659144\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth second-nine birdie spree leads to 62, one shot off lead at Byron Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Spieth finished one shot off his best round in more than a decade Friday at TPC Craig Ranch.<\/p>\n

Spieth\u2019s bogey-free 62 included a second-nine where he recorded seven birdies \u2014 all to get him to 12 under par, within a stroke of playing competitor Sungjae Im (61) and Kensei Hirata atop the CJ Cup Byron Nelson leaderboard<\/a>, before the 36-hole cut is made later in the day.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka still have 18 holes<\/a> to get within Im and Spieth.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, there\u2019s plenty for Spieth fans to celebrate. The Texan has given himself a chance to win his first Tour event in more than four years \u2014 in front of a hometown crowd. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe hole started to look big, so that allows me to play a little bit safer on my approaches,\u201d Spieth said of the groove he got into on his second nine.<\/p>\n

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The second round of THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson is underway at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas.<\/p>\n

Spieth, who began the round on the 10th hole, tied his career-best for most consecutive birdies on that second nine. He previously accomplished the mark during his opening round at the RBC Heritage<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n

Spieth went six-for-six on hole Nos. 1-6 <\/a>after carding a 33 on his first nine holes Friday. The birdie fest was snapped at the par-3 seventh where he two-putted for par.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to capitalize, right? Play the hole, and you\u2019ve got a wedge in your hand, you\u2019ve got a shot that you see, and you\u2019re kind of thinking, \u2018I should make birdie here.\u2019 It\u2019s just nice to do it,\u201d said Spieth, who previously finished second at the Byron Nelson in 2022<\/a> but has never one in front of the Dallas faithful.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a lot of it just comes down to knocking in putts,\u201d he added. \u201cIt felt good. I had a lot of family out today too. I certainly have that tomorrow, and my kids will make an appearance this weekend, which will be fun because they don\u2019t come out very often.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyler Duncan shot 66 to join Spieth at 12 under, one stroke ahead of first-round leader Taylor Moore<\/a>. The 32-year-old Moore, who was born in Texas and also lives now in Dallas, followed his opening 62 with a 69.<\/p>\n

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Tee times, groupings and how to watch the second round of The CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas.<\/p>\n

Spieth has been circling this type of day all season, with seven T-25 finishes and seven rounds in the 60s over the last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I\u2019ve certainly shown that I can get streaky with it and was able to kind of get on the right side of that today,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

Im earned a share of the lead with an ace on the par-3 seventh<\/a>. He then closed his round with an eagle at the par-5 ninth to finish at 13 under.<\/p>\n

“[Sungjae] hit one of the most beautiful \u2014 that was one of the prettiest hole-in-ones I\u2019ve ever seen. Prettier than any one I ever made,\u201d Spieth said. It\u2019s 222 [yards], and the wind is off the left to the left pin. There\u2019s only a few people that would land that left of it on purpose. He might be one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just hit this just perfect 5-iron that held the breeze and came down and went in like a putt, breaking left to right,\u201d Spieth added. \u201cFrom that distance, that club, I was like, \u2018Sungjae, all these other par-3s were way easier to make a hole-in-one on than that one.\u2019 He obviously closed out with an eagle on the last to make our chances of playing together hard for tomorrow, but maybe Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sungjae Im\u2019s hole-in-one on the par-3 7th hole put him into a three-way tie atop the leaderboard in Texas with Kensei Hirata and Jordan Spieth. He took sole possession of first with an eagle to finish off his second-round 61.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth finished one shot off his best round in more than a decade Friday at TPC Craig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-659144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}