Germany's Martin Kaymer shares first place at the Memorial Tournament, counting for the American Professional Golf Tour (PGA) with American Troy Merritt and South Korean Lee Kyoung-hoon after the 2nd round played on Friday in Charleston, Carolina. South).
Kaymer, former world No. 1 now 186th in the ranking of the best players on the planet, returned a card of 68, or four strokes under par, for a total of 135 (-9).
"It will be five years since I was in charge of the US Open 2014, it would be nice to have the reward for all the work accomplished over the past two to three years", hoped Kaymer, whose career has been disrupted in recent years by wrist and shoulder injuries.
“Lately, I was probably pushing things too much hoping to win again, I'm more relaxed this week. The results were not coming, I had to change something, I opted for a calmer approach to the competitions ”, he explained.
Kaymer, 34, has won three titles on the PGA Tour, including two Grand Slam tournaments (PGA Championship 2010, US Open 2014), but his last was in 2014.
The leading trio are just one stroke ahead of American Jordan Spieth (136, -8) and a two-stroke advantage over a group of five including American Rickie Fowler (137, -7 ).
Englishman Justin Rose moved back to 10th place (138, -6) with a spectacular card of 63 (-9).
The American Tiger Woods, winner of five times of the event, should not add a sixth victory.
The winner of the Masters 2019, his first Grand Slam title in eleven years, has moved down ten places to 33rd (142, -2), seven strokes behind the co-leaders.
"It's still very tight in the lead, I have to catch up on the first part of the course on Saturday, that's where I can make the difference", added the "Tiger".
The American Bryson Dechambeau, winner in 2018 of the event organized by the legendary Jack Nicklaus, relaunched with a card of 70 (-2), but is nine strokes behind with his total of 144.
Memorial Tournament ranking (after the 2nd round, par 72):
1. Troy Merritt (USA) 135 (69-66)
. Lee Kyoung-hoon (KOR) 135 (68-67)
. Martin Kaymer (GER) 135 (67-68)
4. Jordan Spieth (USA) 136 (66-70)
5. Bud Cauley (USA) 137 (67-70)
. Patrick Cantlay (USA) 137 (68-69)
. Emiliano Grillo (ARG) 137 (69-68)
. Adam Scott (AUS) 137 (71-66)
. Rickie Fowler (USA) 137 (69-68)
10. Andrew Putnam (USA) 138 (68-70)
. Danny Willett (ENG) 138 (69-69)
. Marc Leishman (AUS) 138 (67-71)
. Austin Cook (USA) 138 (71-67)
. Justin Rose (ENG) 138 (75-63)
15. Vaughn Taylor (USA) 139 (67-72)
. Kim Si-woo (KOR) 139 (69-70)
. Xander Sc Chaudele (USA) 139 (69-70)
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33. Tiger Woods (USA) 142 (70-72)
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