BMW Championship - 2018

Xander Schauffele holds a two-shot lead in the 2018 BMW Championship after shooting a six-under 64 in Friday's second round at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

Schauffele, who carded an equally impressive 63 in Round 1, stands at 13 under overall. Justin Rose is two strokes off the pace at 11 under, while Rickie Fowler, Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley and Alex Noren are tied for third at 10 under through 36 holes.

Rory McIlroy (-9) and Tiger Woods (-8), the co-leaders following Thursday at 8 under, couldn't match their opening-round success, but remain in the hunt in the FedEx Cup Playoffs' penultimate tournament.Schauffele struggled to open the PGA Tour postseason with a missed cut in the Northern Trust and a 49th-place result in the Dell Technologies Championship. It left him outside the top-30 cutoff for the Tour Championship, but the current projection for a win would move him into sixth place.

The 24-year-old reigning Tour Championship winner tallied seven birdies and one bogey in the second round. Along with trying to earn an opportunity to defend his title in the season finale, he's also hoping to secure a place on the United States Ryder Cup team.

"Obviously I thought a lot more about it the past couple of weeks," Schauffele told reporters. "You know, I'm sort of in a position where I feel like a win is the only way I'd even be in consideration. Tony [Finau] obviously is the guy right now. He just shot 64 as well. He's not making it easy on anyone else trying to get on that team. So, you know, hats off to him for playing really well."Meanwhile, Rose rolled in seven birdies on his bogey-free scorecard Friday to charge up the leaderboard. It continued a strong stretch of form for the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, who posted four straight rounds of 70 or better to finish second in the Dell Technologies Championship last week.

Woods, the only two-time FedEx Cup champion, caused a stir with his tremendous outing Thursday.

He failed to perform at the same level in the second round, though, with three birdies and three bogeys. Although his ball-striking remained on point, allowing him to hit 78.6 percent of the fairways and 77.8 percent of the greens, his putting struggled mightily to halt the discussion about the return of his Scotty Cameron putter.Tiger Woods was left ruing a day to forget on the greens as he went from overnight leader to a tie for 11th on day two at the BMW Championship.

Fresh from a best opening round for 20 years on Thursday all eyes were on the 14-time Major champion as he looks for a first tournament win since 2013.

But a day after sinking virtually everything here at Aronimink, Woods never got going with the putter in his hand as his 62 was followed up with a hugely disappointing even-par 70, including back-to-back bogeys at 17 and 18.

“It’s very simple, I didn't make any putts,” he said when asked for an explanation for that eight-stroke swing. “I hit a lot of beautiful putts that were on top of the edge and then obviously hit a couple bad ones on the last hole. It looked like all the putts were going to go in but they didn't today.”Here are the third-round tee times for Saturday at the BMW Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa.

(Note: All times Eastern)

OFF 1ST TEE
8:35 a.m.: Phil Mickelson 8:39 a.m.: Cameron Smith, Brendan Steele 8:48 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Adam Scott 8:57 a.m.: Marc Leishman, Brian Harman 9:06 a.m.: Ryan Palmer, Brandt Snedeker 9:15 a.m.: Si Woo Kim, Patton Kizzire 9:24 a.m.: Kevin Kisner, Pat Perez 9:33 a.m.: Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson 9:42 a.m.: Adam Hadwin, Jordan Spieth 9:51 a.m.: Chesson Hadley, Chez Reavie 10 a.m.: Rafa Cabrera Bello, Andrew Landry 10:10 a.m.: Brice Garnett, Austin Cook 10:20 a.m.: Brian Gay, Abraham Ancer 10:30 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo, Chris Kirk 10:40 a.m.: Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau 10:50 a.m.: Kyle Stanley, Paul Casey 11 a.m.: Zach Johnson, Brooks Koepka 11:10 a.m.: Patrick Cantlay, Bubba Watson 11:20 a.m.: J.J. Spaun, Luke List 11:30 a.m.: Jon Rahm, Henrik Stenson 11:40 a.m.: Keith Mitchell, Jason Kokrak 11:50 a.m.: Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein 12 p.m.: Beau Hossler, Scott Piercy 12:10 p.m.: Francesco Molinari, C.T. Pan 12:20 p.m.: Andrew Putnam, Tommy Fleetwood 12:30 p.m.: Gary Woodland, Webb Simpson 12:40 p.m.: Tiger Woods, Ryan Armour 12:50 p.m.: Byeong Hun An, Ted Potter Jr. 1 p.m.: Tony Finau, Aaron Wise 1:10 p.m.: Charles Howell III, Kevin Na 1:20 p.m.: Jason Day, Billy Horschel 1:30 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas 1:40 p.m.: Rickie Fowler, Hideki Matsuyama 1:50 p.m.: Keegan Bradley, Alex Noren 2 p.m.: Xander Schauffele, Justin Rose