Who is leading the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans after Day 2? Day two leaderboard explored

The second round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans ended with four teams tied for first place, three of them maintaining their positions from the previous day. However, several of the pre-tournament favorites improved their leaderboard positions significantly.

The teams of Brehm/ Hubbard, Rai/ Lipsky, McIlroy/ Lowry and Thompson/ Novak, tied for first place, with a score of 13 under. The first three duos are at the top of the leaderboard for the second consecutive round.

2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans Day 2 leaderboard

Below is the leaderboard of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (only teams that made the cut are included):

T1 Thompson/ Novak -13
T1 Brehm/ Hubbard -13
T1 Rai/ Lipsky -13
T1 McIlroy/ Lowry -13
T5 Cantlay/ Schauffele -12
T5 List/ Norlander -12
T5 Conners/ Pendrith -12
T5 Tarren/ Skinns -12
T5 Taylor/ Hadwin -12
T5 Johnson/ Palmer -12
T11 Detry/ MacIntyre -11
T11 Echavarria/ Greyserman -11
T11 Hoffman/ Watney -11
T11 Kohles/ Kizzire -11
T11 Blair/ Fishburn -11
T11 Meissner/ Smotherman -11
T11 Hall/ Piercy -11
T11 Mitchell/ Dahmen -11
T19 Stevens/ Barjon -10
T19 Yu/ Pan -10
T19 Ghim/ Kim -10
T19 Fitzpatrick/ Fitzpatrick -10
T19 Lee/ Kim -10
T19 Taylor/ O'Hair -10
T19 Wu/ Lower -10
T26 Higgo/ Fox -9
T26 Ramey/ Trainer -9
T26 Garnett/ Straka -9
T26 Wu/ Nicholas -9
T26 Wallace/ Olesen -9
T26 Sigg/ Hadley -9
T32 Kraft/ Tway -8
T32 Hardy/ Riley -8
T32 Phillips/ Bridgeman -8
T32 Eckroat/ Gotterup -8
T32 Morikawa/ Kitayama -8
T32 Malnati/ Knox -8
T32 Reavie/ Snedeker -8
T32 Lashley/ Campos -8
T32 Norrman/ Campillo -8

Zurich Classic of New Orleans highlights

Exactly half of the teams that started the Zurich Classic of New Orleans made the cut (40 out of 80). The second round was played in foursomes format, and the course proved to be very demanding in this mode, as only 17 teams managed scores in the 60s.

The duo of Davis Thompson and Andrew Novak relied precisely on a round of 69 to take a share of the lead. The other three teams holding on to first place at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans scored 70s.

Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele carded the best second round (67) to climb 24 places on the leaderboard and sit T5, just one stroke behind the leaders. Cantlay and Schauffele have played four times as a team at the Zurich Classic and already won in 2022.

Other favorites who improved markedly were brothers Alex and Matt Fitzpatrick, who moved up 25 places to T19, three strokes behind first place.

There were also some teams that surprisingly missed the cut. These included Sahith Theegala and Will Zalatoris and brothers Nicolai and Rasmus Hojgaard.

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Edited by Rachel Syiemlieh