Si Woo Kim shares Wyndham Championship lead

Si Woo Kim shot a second straight 65 to earn a share of the lead with Billy Horschel (64), Talor Gooch (65) and Tom Hoge (68)

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Si Woo Kim of South Korea looks on during the second round of the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by Chris Keane/Getty Images)

In a round of two halves, Si Woo Kim expressed himself like a river in spate on his second nine. He got all his work done on the inward stretch, after making a sedate start off the 10th tee. Kim was an even 35 on those nine holes, but finished with five birdies in the last six holes for a fine 65 on his card.

Overnight leader Tom Hoge had a relatively quiet 68 while Talor Gooch also needed six birdies like Kim for his 65. Billy Horschel climbed to the top on a 64 as all four men congregated on 10-under 130 at the halfway stage of the Wyndham Championship. Shane Lowry and Jason Kokrak fired themselves up the order with a 63 each.

Anirban Lahiri and Arjun Atwal played reasonably well this week, yet ended up on the wrong slice of the knife. It was a day of low scores at Greensboro and the Indians missed out despite some good golf through the first two rounds. Atwal shot an even 70 in the second round, after completing the 18th hole of his suspended first round for a 68. At 2-under, Atwal fell just underneath the cut line. Lahiri missed out too, finishing at even par with a 71 on Friday.

On a packed leader board, as many as twenty five golfers were within three off the lead, suggesting that the weekend could be a mad mayhem of bunched golfers jostling for space.

The scores contained a truck load of 64s, not the least of them Christiaan Bezuidenhout. He climbed 71 spots working from an opening score of one-over 71. Tommy Fleetwood, Sungjae Im, Kevin Kisner, Tyler Duncan, C.T. Pan and Doc Redman were all riding a 64 in the second round.

The litany of low scores meant that the cut fell at 3-under 137, enough to slide Atwal and Lahiri out of the tournament. Jordan Spieth shot 67 despite a double bogey at the par-4 14th hole to make the weekend right on the number.

Akshay Bhatia suffered a disappointing second round. The teenager was 3-under at the start of the day, but a 74 dropped him to even through 36 holes, well beneath cut line.