Marcus Armitage maintained his two-stroke lead at 10-under par as he continued to impress at the 2025 FedEx Open de France.
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The Englishman and Australia’s Min Woo Lee both carded 68 for the second round at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche, with Lee joined in second place on eight under by Denmark’s Jeff Winther after a sublime eight under 63 saw him race up the leaderboard
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In-form Frenchman Adrien Saddier was another player to make a significant move with a bogey-free 66 to move him into a tie for fourth on six under.
Armitage started from the tenth and immediately added a birdie to his first-round 64 thanks to a stunning approach.
He added another at the 14th which saw him reach nine under for the week and he found his way back there after a mixed start to his inward nine.
A 25-foot putt at the first and a superb approach to the third both yielded birdies to offset dropped shots at the second and fourth, but another gain at the sixth took him to ten under for the third time and the 38-year-old parred his way home from there to maintain his advantage at the top.
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Winther, also starting from the tenth, was in inspired form despite not feeling well, as he mixed nine birdies with a solitary bogey to sit in a tie for second alongside PGA TOUR winner Lee.
Home favourite Saddier, who lost in a play-off to Alex Noren at last week’s BMW PGA Championship, posted a bogey-free 66 to share fourth alongside Swedes Jens Dantorp and Mikael Lindberg, fellow Frenchman Jeong weon Ko, and Italy’s Gregorio De Leo.
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Five-time Major winner Brooks Koepka is among the seven-way tie for ninth on five under par.
A further 11 eagles were carded on day two in France, including a hole-in-one for Frenchman Ko, resulting in another 275 trees being planted as part of the tournament’s Eagles for Good campaign, in collaboration with FedEx and the Arbor Day Foundation. The total after two rounds is 600 trees.
Player quotes
Marcus Armitage: It was a little bit of a battle today. For some reason my irons were just going miles. That bit of gym work I’ve started doing this week, it’s paying off already. The ball was going a mile today, so I struggled with that a little bit. But all in all, kept my nose in front, and hopefully we can keep going over the weekend.
Probably ball striking was a little bit better too, so the combination of the two felt like we were in Dubai. But I ground it out, and that’s what golf’s about. Everyone’s great on the good days, it’s the bad days like that, if you can still shoot a score and keep yourself in it, then you just wait for the good days over the weekend.
