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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.
(AP) — Ryder Cup cap-
tain Jim Furyk had an easy
time deciding on three of
his four picks for the Ryder
Cup.
Xander Schauffele is mak-
ing the last one a little more
difficult.
Schauffele nearly holed a
wedge on his second hole,
rolled in a 40-foot birdie
putt in the middle of his
round Friday and wound
up with a 6-under 64 in the
BMW Championship for
the lowest 36-hole score of
his career and a two-shot
lead over Justin Rose.
"I'm sort of in a position
where I feel like a win is
the only way I'd even be in
consideration," Schauffele
said.
He also made it more dif-
ficult on Woods, who again
goes into a weekend have
to catch up to the leaders.
One day after he opened
with a 62 — his lowest
score since his last victory
more than five years ago
— Woods went eight holes
before his first birdie and
didn't make many after
that. He finished with two
straight bogeys for a 70
that left him five shots be-
hind in a tie for 12th.
“Very simple. I didn’t make
any putts,” Woods said. “I
hit a lot of beautiful putts Serena Williams uses net game,
that were on the top of the
edge, and then obviously
hit a couple bad ones on easily into 9th U.S. Open final
the last hole, but looked
like all the putts were going
to in. But they didn’t go in Serena Williams reacts after defeating Anastasija Sevastova, of Latvia, during the semifinals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament,
today.” Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, in New York.
Associated Press
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