Saturday 25 June 2016 11:56, UK
Jon Rahm and Billy Hurley share the lead at the halfway stage of Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club.
Rahm, playing his first event since turning professional after the US Open, looked set to lead by a shot but bogeyed the 18th hole to drop into a tie with Hurley, his playing partner for the first two rounds.
The 21-year-old Spaniard was the low amateur at Oakmont last weekend and started his professional career with a round of 64 on Thursday.
His form continued into the second round, with four more birdies on his front nine as he stormed into a clear lead on 11 under.
But Rahm dropped a shot at the 10th and again found the nearest competition coming from his own group as Hurley enjoyed a second straight good day.
Hurley went out in three-under 33, and added a birdie at the 10th, before joining Rahm in the lead when he picked up another shot at the 14th.
Both players moved to 11 under with birdies at the long 16th and Rahm edged back into the lead with a three at the 17th, but he failed to get up and down from the fringe on the last to give that stroke straight back.
They have a three-shot lead over Fiji's Vijay Singh, who bounced back from two early bogeys to post a five-under 66 and reach eight under for the tournament.
Singh had a run of eight birdies in 10 holes from the fifth but, like Rahm, made a mess of the closing hole to drop another shot.
Bill Haas, a Congressional winner in 2013 when the tournament was sponsored by AT&T, sits in a group tied for fourth on seven under.
Haas had just the two birdies in his bogey-free round of 69, and he was joined on seven under by South African Ernie Els (69) and Americans Harold Varner III (69) and Webb Simpson (68).
Pre-tournament favourite Rickie Fowler is one stroke further back after a second successive round of 68, which included four birdies and one dropped shot.
