Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia posted a pair of 6-under 66s on Friday to vault to the top of the leaderboard at the 51st Players Championship. Lee has yet to win on the PGA Tour, with his biggest victory to date being the 2021 Scottish Open.

While two rising stars on the PGA Tour both stood at 11-under after the second round, Thomas recovered from his opening-round 78 to make the cut by tying the TPC Sawgrass record.

Rory McIlroy was interested only in his good start to The Players Championship on Thursday than discussing a heckling incident in which he took the phone of a University of Texas player who had heckled him during a practice round.

Few have the experience of playing the Stadium Course as McIlroy and certainly not three of the players directly ahead of him on the leaderboard.

Wyndham Clark withdrew from The Players Championship in the middle of his second round due to a neck injury. Clark had just finished closing out his front nine of the second round with a 4-over 40 when he was shown shaking the hands of playing partners Jordan Spieth and Danny Walker on the Golf Channel broadcast.

Wyndham Clark withdrew after nine holes Friday in the second round of The Players Championship. No immediate reason was provided. Clark, who opened in even-par 72, shot 4-over 40 over his opening nine in Round 2 and was five strokes removed from the projected cut line.

There's been a fourth withdrawal from the 2025 Players Championship. Wyndham Clark made the decision after nine holes Friday. He shot an even-par 72 in Thursday's first round but triple-bogeyed the second hole Friday,