TOUR Championship Round 2 Recap / Round 3 Preview: Dustin Johnson holds narrow lead (9/5)

The First Cut Golf

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4.4 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The TOUR Championship continues at East Lake. We’re breaking down the second round on today’s episode of The First Cut Golf Podcast… Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm seemed unstoppable after yesterday’s first round. With a pair of scores over par today their win is far from guaranteed. What can we expect from the duo tomorrow (1:17)? Sungjae Im made a huge rise up the leaderboard today with a 64, Sungbot held the lead briefly on Saturday, can we expect him to take it outright tomorrow (7:26)? Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas round out the top 4 of the leaderboard, just how bad has JT’s putting been this week and can he turn it around (11:49)? Finally we wrap with our favorite players to make a run on moving day (21:00) ————————— Check us out on YouTube for video podcasts and exclusive content, visit https://www.youtube.com/FirstCutPodcast 'First Cut' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow @FirstCutPod on Twitter and Instagram Follow our hosts on Twitter: @KylePorterCBS, @mark_immelman, @RickRunGood, @therealGFD For more golf coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/golf/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.1	Welcome to the first cut podcast.
0:48.2	I'm Rick Gaiman, and this is your tour championship round two recap.
0:53.3	And quite the round it was joining me to break it all down.
0:58.1	It's Greg, do charm. What up, gregg i'm doing really well rick i'm sure not as good as you though i mean i mean are you in heaven right now or what yeah i mean so
1:03.3	he is not currently in the lead but uh he had the lead and sung jim just one shot off the pace
1:10.0	of dustin johnson has me feeling all fat and sassy heading
1:14.6	into Sunday because Sung Jeezy, I've declared, wait, I declared him back a couple of weeks ago.
1:19.7	I'm going to declare him back again right now. Well, he had a little fallout. He was back,
1:23.8	and then he dipped. And now he's back again. So, yeah, Sung J.M. He's back. You heard it here first for the second time.
1:31.0	You've heard it. Yeah, you heard it here second for the first time. All right. Let's talk about the guys who started the day, started the week at the top of the leaderboard, Dustin Johnson, John Rob. I'm even going to lump Justin Thomas in here.
1:46.2	Those guys played a combined five over par. John Rom was four over himself. JT was one over
1:54.3	and DJ found a way to get in at even par, but it was a lot of hard work along the way. And now what it's done is essentially
2:02.4	created this jam-packed leaderboard where seven of the top 30, seven of the 30 players in the
2:10.3	field are within four shots. It's quite interesting. I mean, it works really well for us. You've ended up with, I mean, look, we've all been, at least I have been somewhat critical
2:22.4	of the format.
2:23.9	But right now, through two rounds in the second, in the second rendition of this tournament
2:29.4	in this format, it's led to a quite fascinating leaderboard, right? You have kind of the best of both worlds.
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