Golf-Knost and McIlroy go low at the Players

[Sports News]

While overnight leader Jason Day prepared for a late start on Friday, low scoring was once again plentiful for the morning wave as Colt Knost and Rory McIlroy both made big moves in the second round of the Players Championship in Florida. Just 24 hours after Australian Day became the fifth player to fire a record-low, nine-under-par 63 at the event widely regarded as the most prestigious outside the four majors, Knost followed suit with a 10-birdie display on the Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass. Knost had a chance to card a 62 and make history, but three-putted from long range on his final hole, the par-four 18th, for his only bogey as he finished at nine-under 135, a stroke behind early leaders Jonas Blixt of Sweden (67) and Germany's Alex Cejka (67).

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