Condensed Round 2 | 2025 CME Group Tour Championship

125 for Megan. Not a breath of wind this morning already getting a little humid. How often do you think we're going to say great iron shot for Megan today? 18 times yesterday and that round was kind of like the season played well got close. Didn't make the pots birdie at one and then this to follow up at two. She knew coming into today she was going to have to do something special. Like that, so good. Like is that just absolutely stop on the number? Look a little frustrated like as you can tell the last two holes have worn on her but what a great way to fight back and she should have a pretty straightforward putt birding the first two holes a good way to start birdie 6 bogeyed 7 lone bogey at the day 8 she birdied and then at 9 the approach. Looking for that first win of the season after seven wins last year. More eyeballs on next year showcasing the women's game. It's really exciting. Here. Three of her last four to vault to minus two of potential rollback there for Nellie Kang up ahead at 15. I has a nice release here. Wow, just keeps getting prettier. That from 190. What a gem. To get it to 7 under then at 17, the par 5 longer birdie try that she would want made it though. But maybe she was due right? Couldn't judge it. The other par three three putted there coming up and over a ridge and this one pours right into the back in order has been restored right on the edge. Do you know to the coon number one in the world number one in the overall race season long race this for Eagle and share? She had around yesterday that made five under look like a walk in the park. Looking at a birdie try to get to 6 under. Speedy putt here, especially the second half. Everything sloping away. Beautiful, beautifully done and judged. She's pretty solid with the party yesterday most of the day. Didn't show the one on the 18th. No problem there long time where you want the ball to enter the hole. Hmm, a little bit at the end stays one off the lead. NASA that next shot here after laying up at 6. See if it was the smart move. Alright. Bogey free Jennifer Cup chose to go over to the 7th Gina to the coon for her birdie. She's lurking the one back of Nelly called a great day today for quarter round of 64 very important. I think. Finale actually took a walk onto the green and examine the whole just to check where the grain was doing. Quicker technique than the one that we saw on the fifth hole. Sit chin. He him second at the 7th. Gin he am and so me Lee teamed up to win the Dow Championship earlier this year. Have to use on the T at the 12th. Say in a par 312 again. What do you think? Working on more visualization and not trying to stand over the ball so long. A little bit more reactive with her putting. Scrambled pot and great angle to watch it. Perfectly judged. How about that aggressiveness? Gonna be a kick in? It spent a lot of time trying to find something in a pot. Sometimes there just isn't anything there. That was a really good part that was. I was there after the green when the representative from Morgan Automotive, which was the sponsor at the Lamborghini, was explaining to her what she just wanted. It's pretty cool going through what the car was going to be like. Good putt there from NASA. She's on a great run. Yeah, that's to get it to 5 under on the day. I mentioned Natalia Guseva playing her way in. Here she is playing alongside Lucy Lee today. The birdie from off the green, yes. So that gets the goose back to where she started today. Tough stretch on that front 9-3 bogeys in a row and this is at the 9th. It's not an angle we see very often on this whole Karen Stubbles is watching Gino Titicum and she's going to finish a 5 iron from that left side. Looks like it's on a good line. Well struck shot. Dangerous angle from over there too. That was superb shot 8 under yesterday for Somi Lee Corpus is rounded 66. She played earlier today. Should be a comfortable pairing for the two of them as well. Tom in the final group. That's good shot there trying to start building the round. So me Lee feeling a little bit more comfortable, maybe. 20 low 20s. Yeah, it was fine. Henderson on the 12th. Yes, not for a moment. They're going to put you outside outside. OK, outside Savannah and Snoop will be inside. Yeah, probably. This for Birdie at 16. Early walk, walked it in. You know, Takeda at 18 to get it to 7. They got the putter there or approach about the season. Very good three that was not happy about the T shirt. That was just enough and it's worked out really well for NASA Hataoka and she is going to have a pot to get to double digits under par. Made the turn. Being aggressive this her second from 106 at 10. This is showing off right here. I thought that was it when we saw live. So sensational approach. Fix the mark and just tap in to get it to 11 under par. And the leader. Remains the leader. By 2 now. Good front 9 for NASA Hataoka. Just left of this flagstick here. Birdie since the 10th hole only hit two green since then. Now the third chance here. Nami Katsu that approach. Back at the 10th, chin, he am 2nd. Yeah, it's just a driving range shot. Truly not a lot to think about other than hitting this wedge shot close. You have one handed finishes like that. Terry, it works every now and then. Like wait, where's that going? Oh right at the whole OK. Disappointed in the process and the way she hit it together, but I think she's happy with the result. Gina 2nd. And that was from 151. 141 covers the bunker and that was just a smooth a time for Gina. Such a good shot that what a shot. Continuation from the 2024 championship. Terry defending champion here as well. Loves this golf course putting on a clinic. Eagle Birdie finished last year to close it out when $4,000,000 looking to win. Player who played her way into the field here through last week's Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican to about North of here. She is having in the field chasing her. Hataoka this for par. That slides by so the one closest to her on the leaderboard right now loses a shot at the 10th. Yeah, difficult hold today. This par 4 second shot here for NASA Hataoka. Yes, because that whole location the far right corner this on aggressive line. Yeah, really good. So me at least 64 yesterday. Set the pace 6 green so far. Spoke to her coach earlier this week. He said they're really working on being a little bit more reactive over the putts, taking the putter back a little bit quicker and working on the rhythm of her stroke. Just that much more she had it. It's great read. Record money wise last year for the season. Show me lead to get it to 8 under par. Gripping a putting stroke, she said that's Lydia Coase. Found herself on a downhill lie. With only 96 yards to go. Backstop behind this flag. Bit of pace there, which is what she needed to do. Another good look. This just slightly downhill towards the whole. She's got a really good chance for three. She does, and from this part of the green time I don't see a huge amount in this one either and have lines that tremendous. So she gets the 13 under par. Finished 22 under par last year. The record is 27 under par. That was Amy Yang. America's Open end up finishing tied for 28th so couldn't. Continue that good form. Which he showed on day one. Back at Liberty National last year. Just to sneak apart here, so she stays at 8 under into the grain. Getting clean contact really important. Had a little look. She's trying to watch the line there the first half, so that would pitch into a slope, but then it falls away downhill towards the whole. There's only been one bogey here, men and Roy. Not the whole way you expect players to make a mistake. Touch to her left. What's so difficult about this 18th green? His players figured out later in the day is the sun. They're pretty large in this pond, right? Don't take him lightly. Sam Kim at 14 to get it to 9 under. Well, she looks really confident on the Greens. Is to get it to 900 on the day. She misses a pot. Not almost. I'm there. I can attest from have you done that past experience? Second at the 13th Semi League. Balls above her feet. 168 is the number. Is it going to be in that or just creeps over that little bowl there on the front left of the green? It's caught out a few players and now say young Kim has a good look. Yeah, she's got 150 is a number. It's just really about keeping your balance and not allowing your feet to skid. But the line was actually pretty clean when it comes to. The pine straw. That is going to stay in the bowl, so there's going to be a tricky part. No, that is such a short putt to miss and move quite a bit, didn't it? But that. Players here page just kind of on the top of this bridge here to the right, putting down the hill. She's going to be disappointed with that. She thought it was from practicing last week in Dallas. 3rd at 14, the par 5 for Somi Lee. Hitting some really solid approaches, but that three pot on the last. Long distance at 16 for Birdie, say young Kim. There it is just getting speed, right? I think that's really well judged. Yeah, and really good with the putter. She's dangerous. She has the ability to take it deep. Karen, I think that it's one of her tremendous strengths as she has the ability back at 14 so many leaves. Missed a couple. Not this time I see that leaderboard 67 Minjee Lee standing by with Amy Rogers. That's for an eagle. Potentially this is the final pair. Somi Lee and Allison Corpus. Somi's second shot to 15. Lower ball flight trying to chase something up the Ridge well done. 60th just in that last spot to get in. Miss Grace Kim on the way from Birdie at 18. The Monday Evian Championship earlier this year made the championship and hollows on the left side of the 17th. Green so below the level of the putting surface is say young Kim. Always very awkward. But this looks pretty good and she's liking it because he's chasing after it. Great view there with that camera angle of how you can basically see nothing. As a player talks about Gino being fortunate Karen because she stayed up on the top and she's 6 inches from falling down the same slogan. Being with a young game was. It is actually much easier shot. It's quick once it's about 15 yards short. There is that that spine isn't there. But to occur second at 17. And something that lands about 15 paces short this pin left should be good. And just about just about right there. She was unlucky that it. Sat softly. You're right away stroke. We've seen out of her today. Brilliant round to take control of the championship. Bit of a guessing game when there's mud on the ball. Looks like it's on the left side. Tends to go right. It's not a nice line, Morgan. Just kind of have to decide his. Do you feel like the mud is going to fall off at impact or will it impact fringe or carry it all the way to the putting surface? Budge when you have to deal with the grain in the fringe. It's pretty big pot to finish up, don't you think? Excellent keeps her right there in the second to last group.