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Wyndham Clark takes control at The Players Championship

AP photo by Lynne Sladky / Wyndham Clark follows through on a shot during the second round of The Players Championship on Friday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
AP photo by Lynne Sladky / Wyndham Clark follows through on a shot during the second round of The Players Championship on Friday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. AP photo by Lynne Sladky / Wyndham Clark follows through on a shot during the second round of The Players Championship on Friday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

By DOUG FERGUSON / The Associated Press 5 min read

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler posted his 25th consecutive round under par Friday, and this was hard work.

He felt pain in his neck that required treatment on the course, and he struggled to swing and to stay within range of Wyndham Clark.

Feeling fit or not, that turned out to be the goal for everyone on the second day of The Players Championship.

Clark was playing in the group behind, oblivious to Scheffler’s injury or anything else on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. He ran off four straight birdies on the front nine and finished with a 7-under-par 65 to move to 14-under 130, one shot short of the 36-hole record for the course set by Webb Simpson at the 2018 edition of The Players Championship.

Clark had a four-shot lead over Xander Schauffele (69) and Nick Taylor (68), who played in the afternoon and had to cope with warm, breezy conditions on greens that remained surprisingly soft.