Spieth Holds 1 Stroke Lead Heading Into Day 3
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AUGUSTA, GA (AP) - Defending champion Jordan Spieth kept his nerves in check and steered his golf ball through gusts of up to 30 mph skillfully enough to hang onto the lead at the end of a chaotic second round at Augusta National.
Spieth's 2-over 74 gave him a two-day total of 140 -- Rory McIlroy is a stroke back after one of the few sub-par rounds of the day -- and made the Texan the first player to lead six consecutive rounds after he went wire-to-wire in a 2015 win.
Friday marked the first time since the third round in 2007 that no player broke 70.
Bryson DeChambeau, the U.S. Amateur and NCAA champion at SMU, played with Spieth and Paul Casey and was 3-under par and closing in on Spieth at No. 18. But he ran into trouble off the tee -- hitting one drive out of bounds and another into an unplayable lie and wound up making triple-bogey 7.
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