MIAMI (AFP) – World number two Rory McIlroy and team-mate Shane Lowry stayed at the top of the leaderboard at the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event.
The pair, who are expected to represent Ireland in July’s Paris Olympics, share a four-way lead after Friday’s alternate shot second round.
After shooting 62 in Thursday’s four-ball (better ball) opening round, McIlroy and Lowry carded a two-under-par 70 in tricky wind conditions at TPC Louisiana.
The American pairs of Davis Thompson and Andrew Novak and Ryan Brehm and Mark Hubbard, along with the Anglo-American team of Aaron Rai and David Lipsky were also on 131 after the first two rounds.
Playing the back nine first, the Irish pair reached the turn at one-under before making a bogey on the par-3 third, but they rallied at the end of their round with birdies on the seventh and eighth.
