SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — British golfer Tommy Fleetwood is on familiar turf and chasing another gold prize at Le Golf National, this one an Olympic pendant instead of that 17-inch Ryder Cup trophy.
The medal chase in men's golf began to take shape Friday at the Paris Olympics, with Fleetwood sharing the 36-hole lead with reigning champion Xander Schauffele of the United States and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, giving another sellout crowd plenty of star power at the top.
Schauffele was slowed by ants in the rough and posted a 5-under-par 66 in the second round, tying the 36-hole Olympic record he set three years ago at the Tokyo Games. The two other guys at the top of the leaderboard had sloppy finishes to their days.
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