Second-Round Notes

Weather

Partly cloudy. High of 82. Wind SSE at 7-12 mph.

Three-round 54-hole stroke-play event with 16 teams of two. R1/Scramble, R2/Foursomes, R3/Modified Four-Ball

Foursomes: Each team’s players alternate hitting shots with the same ball until the ball is holed. One player will tee off on the odd-numbered holes, and the other tees off on the even-numbered holes.

Team	Total	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Strokes	Earnings
Day/Ko	-20	58	66	66	124	$1,000,000.00
Finau/Korda	-18	56	70	67	126	$232,500.00
Glover/Maguire	-18	57	69	68	126	$185,000.00
Conners/Henderson	-16	59	69	63	128	$560,000.00
McCarthy/Khang	-16	57	71	65	128	$232,500.00
Fowler/Thompson	-16	60	68	66	128	$185,000.00
Taylor/Yin	-16	58	70	67	128	$170,000.00
Rose/Hull	-14	58	72	66	130	$151,666.66
Åberg/Sagström	-12	60	72	60	132	$330,000.00
Theegala/Zhang	-12	58	74	64	132	$151,666.67
English/Boutier	-12	63	69	65	132	$140,000.00
Dahmen/Vu	-11	61	72	63	133	$151,666.67
Henley/Reid	-10	64	70	66	134	$135,000.00
Horschel/Lee	-9	64	71	67	135	$127,500.00
Champ/Corpuz	-7	59	78	65	137	$127,500.00
Hoge/Knight	-7	66	71	66	137	$120,000.00

6-under 66 marks the low round of the day; offset lone bogey (No. 5) with 7 birdies
At No. 19 in the Official World Golf Ranking, Day marks the highest ranked player in the field, while Ko is No. 11 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings
Day is a four-time Presidents Cup participant for the International Team; Ko is a two-time Olympic medalist (2016 Rio Olympics/Silver, 2020 Tokyo Olympics/Bronze)
Aussie recorded eight top-10s in 2022-23 season, highlighted by his 13th PGA TOUR title at the 2023 CJ CUP Byron Nelson
Kiwi had two top-10s this season (best: 3rd/BMW Ladies Championship)
Ko, a 19-time LPGA Tour winner, including two majors, was named 2022 Rolex Player of the Year and won the 2022 CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburón Golf Club

Following a 16-under 56 in round one’s Scramble format, 18-hole leaders and Grant Thornton ambassadors recorded a 2- under 70
Eight-time LPGA Tour winner Korda had nine top-10s this season, and was a member of the 2023 U.S. Solheim Cup Team; played with Denny McCarthy at the 2022 QBE Shootout at Tiburón Golf Club, finishing T5
Finau, a six-time TOUR winner, won twice on TOUR in 2022-23 (Texas Children’s Houston Open, Mexico Open at Vidanta); made two appearances in the Ryder Cup (2018, 2021) and Presidents Cup (2019, 2022); has made four starts in the team format at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, including a sixth-place finish in 2018 with partner Daniel Summerhays; partnered with Lexi Thompson at the QBE Shootout in 2017 (T4) and 2018 (T7)

Duo posts five birdies, including three consecutive birdies (Nos. 13-15) to offset two bogeys
Maguire became the first Irish woman to win on the LPGA Tour with victory at the 2022 LPGA Drive On Championship; added a second title at the 2023 Meijer LPGA Classic; one of four in the field who competed for Europe in the 2023 Solheim Cup
Glover won twice in 2023, in back-to-back weeks at the Wyndham Championship and FedEx St. Jude Championship, for his fifth and sixth TOUR titles, respectively; 2009 U.S. Open champion is one of three PGA TOUR players in the field to have won a major championship (Justin Rose, Jason Day); represented the United States at the Presidents Cup in 2007 and 2009

The Grant Thornton Invitational is a first-year PGA TOUR Challenge Season event (unofficial) and the first mixed-team co- sanctioned event between the PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour since John Daly and Laura Davies won the final JCPenney Classic in 1999
Rickie Fowler/Lexi Thompson (T4/-16) were the only team with an eagle in the second round, with 11-time LPGA Tour winner Thompson recording an ace at the par-3 16th (155 yards, 7-iron)