Fleetwood shares lead with Scheffler and Thomas
Tommy Fleetwood has seven wins on the European Tour but has yet to triumph on the US-based circuit
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Travelers Championship second round
-9 S Scheffler (US), J Thomas (US), T Fleetwood (Eng); -8 J Day (Aus); -7 D McCarthy (US), A Eckroat (US); -6 N Taylor (Can), K Bradley (US)
Selected others: -5 R McIlroy (NI); -3 H Hall (Eng); -2 R MacIntyre (Sco); +1 A Rai (Eng); +3 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); +5 S Lowry (Ire)
England's Tommy Fleetwood made two eagles in a second-round 65 to take a share of the lead in the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.
The 34-year-old, who shot a first-round 66, sits on nine under par alongside world number one Scottie Scheffler and his fellow American Justin Thomas.
Fleetwood, who is searching for his first PGA Tour title, carded a modest level-par opening half but then surged up the field in the last six holes at TPC River Highlands.
He eagled the par-five 13th by finding the green in two shots then sinking a 10-foot putt before holing out from the fairway with a 30-yard shot on the par-four 14th to pick up two more strokes.
A 12-foot birdie putt at the par-three 16th gave him a share of the lead, with Australian Jason Day one shot back.
"I've been having a good season and I felt like my game was in a really good place going into the US Open last week," Fleetwood told Sky Sports.
"For whatever reason - I'll never understand the game - I played really poorly but in golf there is always another week and this week is a big week.
"I came out motivated to take whatever there is to learn to make you better for the coming weeks and so far this week I'm happy with how I bounced back."
Thomas reeled off five consecutive birdies in his six-under 64 while Scheffler carded a 69 to also sit atop the leaderboard.
World number two Rory McIlroy, who was two off the first-round lead, had a frustrating day with a one-over 71 that dropped him to four behind.
McIlroy made three bogeys in his opening four holes and turned in three-over 38, but three birdies in his next six holes recovered the damage.