Who is leading the 2024 LIV Golf Chicago after Round 2? Day 2 leaderboard explored

The second round of LIV Golf Chicago was played this Saturday, September 14th at the Bolingbrook Golf Club. The event will crown the individual champion of the season and both candidates, Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann, still have a chance.

Rahm leads LIV Golf Chicago at seven-under. Niemann is just three shots back in a tie for fourth.

2024 LIV Golf Chicago Day 2 Leaderboard

The following is the LIV Golf Chicago leaderboard after the second round:

1 Jon Rahm -7
2 Sergio Garcia -6
3 Brooks Koepka -5
T4 Adrian Meronk -4
T4 Ian Poulter -4
T4 Joaquín Niemann -4
T7 Kalle Samooja -3
T7 Dustin Johnson -3
T7 Bryson DeChambeau -3
T7 Lucas Herbert -3
T7 Paul Casey -3
T12 Tyrrell Hatton -2
T12 Carlos Ortiz -2
T12 Thomas Pieters -2
T12 Anirban Lahiri -2
T16 Richard Bland -1
T16 Abraham Ancer -1
T16 Henrik Stenson -1
T19 Charl Schwartzel E
T19 Harold Varner III E
T21 Danny Lee +1
T21 Talor Gooch +1
T21 Jinichiro Kozuma +1
T21 Dean Burmester +1
T21 Eugenio Chacarra +1
T21 Peter Uihlein +1
T27 Sam Horsfield +2
T27 Kevin Na +2
T27 Sebastián Muñoz +2
T27 Scott Vincent +2
T27 David Puig +2
T27 Louis Oosthuizen +2
T27 Patrick Reed +2
T34 Phil Mickelson +3
T34 Charles Howell III +3
T34 Brendan Steele +3
T34 Matt Jones +3
T38 Kieran Vincent +4
T38 Marc Leishman +4
T38 Mito Pereira +4
T38 Graeme McDowell +4
T38 Andy Ogletree +4
T38 Anthony Kim +4
T38 Branden Grace +4
T38 Martin Kaymer +4
46 Lee Westwood +5
T47 Jason Kokrak +6
T47 Cameron Smith +6
49 Pat Perez +7
T50 Matthew Wolff +8
T50 Cameron Tringale +8
52 Bubba Watson +9
53 Caleb Surratt +13
54 Hudson Swafford +16

Jon Rahm's performance in the second round of LIV Golf Chicago included six birdies and no bogeys. His score allowed him to climb 10 places to the top of the leaderboard.

Day one leader Brooks Koepka lost the four-shot lead he had at the start of the round after carding just three birdies and six bogeys.

Sergio Garcia also moved up the leaderboard thanks to a five-under-par second round. Adrian Meronk and Tyrrell Hatton shared Garcia's score, with the Pole moving up 17 places to T4 and the Englishman 26 places to T12. Hatton had an ace on the 6th hole.

Garcia, Hatton, and Koepka are three of the four contenders for third place, which will be decided in the final round. Only Cameron Smith seems to be out of contention.

The same goes for the title race between Rahm and Niemann, who are only three shots apart.

The X (formerly Twitter) account LIV Golf Communications reported that the second round of LIV Golf Chicago had an attendance of 15,000 spectators, a new record for the league.

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Edited by Tushar Bahl