Taylor Pendrith (1st/-12) has his fourth career 36-hole lead/co-lead on the PGA TOUR; 0-for-3 to date converting to victory (most recent: 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic/finished T14).
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Earned first career PGA TOUR title in May at the 2024 CJ CUP Byron Nelson.
Five players have multiple wins on TOUR this season: Scottie Scheffler (6), Nick Dunlap (2), Robert MacIntyre (2), Rory McIlroy (2) and Xander Schauffele (2).
Missed the cut in his tournament debut at the 3M Open in 2023.
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Entered the week No. 29 in the FedExCup standings and seeks his first appearance in the TOUR Championship in his third season on TOUR (advanced to the BMW Championship in 2022).
Entered the week No. 14 in the Presidents Cup standings for the International Team; the 2024 Presidents Cup is at The Royal Montreal Golf Club in Pendrith’s home country of Canada.
Made his Presidents Cup debut in 2022, compiling a record of 0-4-0 for the International Team.
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Matt NeSmith (2nd/-10) lost in a playoff two weeks ago at the ISCO Championship, his second career runner-up on TOUR.
Stewart Cink (T9/-7) makes the cut for the 505th time on the PGA TOUR, the most of any player since making his TOUR debut in 1995 and the seventh-most of any player on record (1983-present); only four other players in the field have made 500 or more starts on TOUR (Matt Kuchar, Aaron Baddeley, Charley Hoffman, Zach Johnson); Cink has four top10s in five starts on PGA TOUR Champions this season.
Neal Shipley (T42/-3) made the turn in the second round at 2-over for the tournament before carding a 5-under 30 on the front nine (his second nine) to make the cut; Shipley, who made his first TOUR start as a professional at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in June, has now made six cuts in seven starts this season (four in five as a professional), highlighted by a T6 at the ISCO Championship (MC/John Deere Classic).
