Griffin and Schmid share lead at Colonial

American Ben Griffin and Germany’s Matti Schmid shared the lead at 11 under par after Friday’s second round of the PGA Trip’s Charles Schwab Difficulty in Fort Worth, Texas.Griffin and Schmid hold a two-stroke lead over American John Pak but world primary Scottie Scheffler, chasing a third straight win on trip, was 10 strokes off the leaders after shooting one over-par. Advertisement The leading pair both shot 7-under rounds of 63. Griffin

started on fire, making birdies on his very first 2 holes, the 10th and 11th. The only acne in an otherwise ideal round for the 29-year-old featured a bogey on the par-4 5th hole where he needed to pay up after driving left into the rough.After two runners-up areas on the PGA Tour, Griffin finally earned his very first win at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team occasion where he played with Andrew Novak.He ended up connected for eighth at the PGA Championship last week, his best efficiency in a significant, and stated he felt the victory had freed his game.Advertisement “I feel like I’ve type of made good actions the last couple of years simply kind of constructing to get to that very first win. Now that I’ve got that very first win, I seem like it’s truly releasing me up,”he stated.

“I feel like I’m attempting to win more. Not that I wasn’t trying to win in the past, but just the monkey off the back where I’ve got absolutely nothing to lose mentality. We’re trying to attack pins and get up there with the kids at the top of the leaderboard,”he stated.”It’s certainly been a breakthrough year, however I believe there’s more to come.”Schmid made a similar start with birdies on the 10th and 11th and was bogey-free on the tight fairways of Colonial Country Club.Advertisement”I would say it was just a really strong round of golf. Started off hot. Had a couple of excellent breaks on the rough. I

evaluated the distance right and I simply played quality golf from there on,”he said.Rickie Fowler, with simply one win in the last six years, put himself in the chasing pack,

relocating to within five strokes after a 6-under-par 64. Fowler had assured an even much better round after making 6 birdies by the turn, after starting on the back 9, however he handled only a birdie and bogey on the front nine.”It’s absolutely happening,” he stated.”It’s a great line out here. Nice to see things beginning to come together a bit. “Ad”It would have been good to continue on from our front nine, but a strong day on a Friday. We’ll see if we can get after it this weekend, “he added.Scheffler made the even-par cut at 140 by a single shot while another three-time significant winner, Jordan Spieth, made it on the number.sev/ sst