Who is leading the 2024 Nedbank Golf Challenge after day 2? Leaderboard explored

The second round of the 2024 Nedbank Golf Challenge was played on Friday, December 6, at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa. Julien Guerrier took advantage of Max Homa's poor performance to climb into first place.

Guerrier leads the Nedbank Golf Challenge on five-under-par, one stroke ahead of compatriot Romain Langasque and local player Ockie Strydom. Eight other players are within three shots of the leader.

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2024 Nedbank Golf Challenge Day 2 Leaderboard

Here is the Nedbank Golf Challenge leaderboard after the second round. Only the top 50 are included:

• 1 Julien Guerrier -5
• T2 Romain Langasque -4
• T2 Ockie Strydom -4
• T4 Johannes Veerman -3
• T4 Andy Sullivan -3
• T4 Matthew Jordan -3
• T4 Max Homa -3
• T8 Laurie Canter -2
• T8 Paul Waring -2
• T8 Frederic LaCroix -2
• T8 Christiaan Bezuidenhout -2
• T12 Aldrich Potgieter -1
• T12 Francesco Laporta -1
• T12 Elvis Smylie -1
• T12 Thorbjørn Olesen -1
• T16 Jordan Smith E
• T16 Todd Clements E
• T16 Mackenzie Hughes E
• T16 Robin Williams E
• T16 Pablo Larrazábal E
• T21 Daniel Hillier +1
• T21 Angel Hidalgo +1
• T21 Ewen Ferguson +1
• T21 Wenyi Ding +1
• T25 Joe Dean +2
• T25 David Ravetto +2
• T25 Jesper Svensson +2
• T25 Brandon Stone +2
• T25 Will Zalatoris +2
• T25 Nicolai Højgaard +2
• T25 Sam Bairstow +2
• T25 Yuto Katsuragawa +2
• T25 Thriston Lawrence +2
• T25 Daniel Brown +2
• T25 Dan Bradbury +2
• T36 Dylan Frittelli +3
• T36 Guido Migliozzi +3
• T36 Thomas Detry +3
• T36 Jorge Campillo +3
• T36 Sebastian Söderberg +3
• T36 Adrian Otaegui +3
• T36 Niklas Norgaard +3
• T36 Alex Fitzpatrick +3
• T44 Connor Syme +4
• T44 Erik van Rooyen +4
• T44 Corey Conners +4
• T47 Matteo Manassero +5
• T47 Nacho Elvira +5
• T47 Danny Willett +5
• T47 Ugo Coussaud +5

Julien Guerrier carded eight birdies and four bogeys in the second round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge. Just over a month ago, the Frenchman won the first tournament of his 20-year career on the DP World Tour (2024 Andalucia Masters).

After his performance, Guerrier highlighted the difficult weather conditions that prevailed during the round. Here is part of what he had to say (via DP World Tour News Service):

"It’s a privilege to score under par in tough conditions like that. I am very pleased I made a lot of birdies. It was difficult to stay patient, you know you are going to make some mistakes, everybody does."

The difficult conditions saw only 14 players break par. Defending champion and yesterday's leader Max Homa was not in that group as he finished the second round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge at 3 over (3 under for the first 36 holes).

Homa was 1 under through 15th with three birdies and two bogeys. But back-to-back double bogeys on the 16th and 17th dashed his hopes of remaining in the lead.

Another PGA Tour player, Will Zalatoris, moved up 16 spots on the leaderboard with five birdies, three bogeys, and a double bogey (even par for the round).