Power tails Dahmen by nine
Seamus Power plays a shot on the ninth hole during the second round at the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. on Friday, June 17, 2022. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)
Seamus Power added a four-under 68 to his opening 67 but fell further behind Joel Dahmen in the Corales Puntacana Championship.
The West Waterford star (38) made five birdies in another solid round to get to nine-under in the Dominican Republic.
He was seven shots behind overnight leader Dahmen, who followed his course record 62 with a bogey-free 66 to lead by four shots in the clubhouse from Michael Thorbjornsen (63), Charley Hoffman (66) and South Africa's Garrick Higgo (68) with a record halfway aggregate of 16-under-par.
"16 (under) is pretty good anywhere you're playing," said Dahmen, who won the event to notch his lone PGA Tour win in 2021.
"Yesterday played a lot easier; it was calm most of the day. We had it relatively calm for the front nine, it really picked up on the back.
"The afternoon wave's definitely going to have it harder, so I'm happy with where I'm at, for sure."
In the RBC Heritage at Harbor Town, Andrew Novak shot a six-under 65 to lead by a shot in the clubhouse from Canada's Mackenzie Hughes on nine-under.
Meanwhile, Conor Purcell ended a run of three successive missed cuts in the Volvo China Open on the DP World Tour.
The Portmarnock rookie (27) was three under for the day with three holes to play, and while he double-bogeyed his 16th hole, he parred the last two to card a one-under 70 to make the cut with two shots to spare on level par.
He was ten shots behind 2016 champion Haotong Li, who carded an eight-under 63 to share the lead with Spain's Eugenio Chacarra (67) and Finland's Tapio Pulkannen (70) at halfway.
They were two shots clear of Germany's Jannik De Bruyn on 10-under at Enhance Anting Golf Club in Shanghai.
At the HotelPlanner Tour's Abu Dhabi Challenge, Dermot McElroy was the leading Irishman at halfway, seven shots behind Robin Sciot-Siegriet.
The French star signed for a bogey-free five-under-par 65 at Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club to lead Spain's Sebastian Garcia by a shot on 11-under.
McElroy shot 69 to share 22nd on four-under.
Royal Dublin's Max Kennedy and Jonathan Caldwell also shot 69s to sit on two-under and one-under respectively.
But Mark Power (two-over), Liam Nolan (three-over) and Daniel Mulligan (four-over) missed the one-under-par cut.
