Seamus Energy failed to actually construct on his promising opening spherical as he picked up only a single shot to take a seat simply outdoors the highest 20 on the John Deere Basic.
The Waterford native had began spherical two inside the highest 10 however with the course nonetheless receptive to good scoring – Hayden Springer shot 59 on Thursday – he was shifting within the fallacious path regardless of a spherical of 70 shifting him to eight-under par general.
That left him six photographs off clubhouse leaders Aaron Rai of England and Taiwan’s CT Pan with the second wave of starters nonetheless on the course in a single day.
After three opening pars, Energy dropped a shot on the fourth gap after drifting left on his method to the inexperienced, however a 16-foot birdie putt on the ninth noticed him out stage.
Coming in, Energy carded eight pars with one stroke picked up on the par-three sixteenth when he chipped in from simply off the inexperienced.
Pan and Rai each shot 63 of their second rounds whereas Springer was alongside them on 14-under par halfway by means of his spherical.