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6th September 2020
10:53am BST

"Yeah, the lie was sort of iffy. My biggest concern was trying to carry the first bunker on the right there, and I knew I needed to hit it really hard and I swung hard at it, and I got it just... I got it maybe like right in the middle of the ball and I didn't get... I felt like if I tried to sweep it, it would be better, and I just sort of came up on it a little bit. "Probably, in hindsight, trying to take on a little bit too much. So, yeah, and then it would have been nice to get away with a par. It wasn't to be. "But it doesn't look like I'm going to lose any ground today anyway, which is some sort of consolation. But it was a little trickier today. The wind was a bit sort of everywhere. Hole locations were a little more difficult. I'm still right there, but would have liked to have had a bit of a better finish."McIlroy did lose ground, but not that much. Johnson managed to birdie the 18th to finish the second round as the sole leader on -13. Just behind the current world number one are Sungjae Im (-12) and Xander Schauffele (-11) with Justin Thomas a further stroke back. McIlroy is in a tie for eighth.
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