PGA Tour Highlights: Rocket Classic 2026, Round Two | Golf Channel
Watch the best shots and moments from the second round of the 2026 Rocket Classic.
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Boy, future stars of the PGA Tour.
Winner last week, 21-year-old Jackson Kovin.
This just moments ago on the ninth.
Carrying all that momentum from the Twin Cities here to Motown, going out in 31, his first nine.
He's up to five under par, now within five.
How about that trio tied at the top, Cameron Young, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Cantlay?
It is game on for our second round in Detroit.
All right, fresh off that birdie on the ninth, Jackson Kovin with the honor on the 10th.
With this group watching, Jim Gallagher Jr.
I am.
He went with driver, and it looks like he's trying to navigate between the bunkers.
That'll be just fine.
Absolutely perfect, Jimmy.
Well, it doesn't look like there's hardly a breath of wind out there.
You can fl- see the flag through the trees just laying limp.
Go, Rickie.
Oh, this is- Sounded a good tape just left of the flag.
Yeah.
That's well done.
Yep.
Especially to back flags.
How about Malnati saying, "When I got to nine under yesterday, I was thinking about a 57."
And here he is for birdie, trying to get his first circle on the card today, and that comes.
That'll help him.
Out of the bunker.
Schauffele.
Yeah, lucky that ball was on the upslope of the bunker.
126, gap wedge.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
That had some serious action on it from Schauffele.
227 today, this par three playing.
This is a four iron for Fowler.
Starts it right of the flag.
Wind's got it coming back toward the flag.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's feeling it when he's starting to move that ball both directions.
Good job, Rickie.
And back in the bunker has Gotterup.
Well, he has the backswing issue with that tall fescue.
Ball's on the downslope.
Green goes away from him.
Nothing good about this shot here.
Let's go.
Oh, that is so good.
Oh, are you kidding me?
No way.
70th in the FedEx standings.
Keegan Bradley, 76th- coming into this week.
Kovin just making his fifth start.
Girard about to make the turn on 18.
Oh.
Pours it in.
Now Gotterup back at the tee.
Yeah, this is on a nice line as well.
This was well struck.
That tree was never in his view with the way h- as low as he launches it.
And look at, that was Xander's ball he just went past by about 30 yards.
Yeah, perfect look here.
82 yards.
Coming over that bunker with the fescue in the face.
It's just well framed here.
Nice strike there.
This is gonna have some spin on it.
Yeah.
Over to 15, par three.
Michael Kim, long birdie attempt, trying to get to eight under.
He was making putts like this when he had his 59 last week, and he makes one here.
16th, Michael Kim, fourth shot to the par four.
Oh.
And somehow is gonna walk off with a par.
Jackson Kovin.
That was an eight iron from 167, trying to carry up that top edge.
Pulling a Hideki, the one-handed finish.
What's Rickie got?
Eh, he's 267, but- Yeah chose to kind of go out to the right there.
Not a club that he can get there, just trying to play for his third, set himself up.
See, that's a great leave.
That's the leave that I was looking at.
If you can't get there, Billy Ray, just leave it right in front of that green.
You can pretty much pitch it to every flag on that green from there.
How about this for Fowler's third of 14?
He's got to come over that huge shoulder on the right-hand side of the green.
Kind of s- obstructs his view.
He's gonna land it over that shoulder.
Really a pretty good place to pitch from.
Good.
Keep going.
Yeah, that's pretty well done.
At 17, Michael Kim taking less than driver here.
This is heading left.
Snap it.
Oh.
Oh, bounced a little, right?
Skirts the bunker.
Wow.
Right of the- What a break right there it's okay.
Kovin at the 16th.
Yeah, was pitching wedge from 148.
Good location, that front left.
I was gonna say, suits his eye, Jim.
At the par three, fifth.
Matt Kuchar, how about his ball striking today?
13 out of 14 greens.
Seconds ago.
And this was just seconds ago.
Kuchar in there tight.
Oh, let him in for the hole in one.
Oh yeah.
Yes.
Put the ace on the card for Kuch.
Yeah, this is just center of the green here, Jim.
That's where it started, but it's cutting back towards the hole.
If it carries that slope, could be good.
Yeah.
Oh.
My goodness, what a shot.
That's so good.
Yes.
Girard to make it three tied at 10.
Oh, yeah.
On the money.
Ryan Girard now a co-leader.
Keegan Bradley had that beautiful approach at 17.
And was able to find the bottom of the cup for the birdie.
How's this for Bradley on 18?
It's a decent lie.
I mean, up to 145.
All depends on the kick.
Oh, and he got it.
Climbs aboard on the green.
Woo.
Much that you're seeing here?
I don't.
They've taken a long time.
They both looked at it at least two or three times, and this is a finish with back-to-back birdies and right there in contention going into the weekend.
And what a shot he hit out of the rough.
And what a finish.
Three three on 17 and 18.
Just a gap wedge here, 117.
Struck it nicely.
He's gonna be flag hunting here.
Oh, fantastic.
Really changing the momentum here, Billy Ray.
Yeah, really good look here, and that all started with the three putt that he had at the 11th, the par three.
Never regained any control, but- gets one there.
All's forgotten now.
Third shot for Fishburn at the par five, 14th.
All the way, the entire length of this green, using that slope.
Oh, what a great piece of judgment.
That is so good.
Adam Schenk trying to close out his day birdie-birdie.
There.
There.
Oh.
You bet.
Schenk had missed four straight cuts coming in this week.
