Friday at the WM Phoenix Open provided loads of exciting action and memorable moments.
Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune stole the show with four birdies and an eagle in his final six holes, taking the outright lead away from his fellow countryman, Hideki Matsuyama, who went out early Friday morning and fired a 7-under 64. Those two will play together in the final group Saturday, and it marks the first time since 1983 that two Japanese players are first and second on the leaderboard after any round, according to PGA Tour Radio.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the leaderboard, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler bounced back from an uncharacteristic 2-over 73 on Thursday to fire a 6-under 65 Friday and finish the day safely inside the cutline of 1 under. Three players were unable to complete their second round after play was suspended due to darkness, but it’s highly unlikely the cutline moves. They’ll return to the course Saturday morning to finish up, at which point the 36-hole cut will be made official.
Keep scrolling for scores, highlights, round recaps and more from Friday’s second round of the 2026 WM Phoenix Open.
2026 WM Phoenix Open leaderboard
Check tee times and keep tabs on every score turned in at TPC Scottsdale this week with the 2026 WM Phoenix Open live leaderboard. Here’s what it looked like at the top at the conclusion of play Saturday:
PositionPlayerScoreThru1Ryo Hisatsune-11F2Hideki Matsuyama-10FT3Pierceson Coody-8FT3Chris Gotterup-8FT5Si Woo Kim-7FT5Sahith Theegala-7FT5John Parry-7FT5Akshay Bhatia-7FT5Matt Fitzpatrick-7F
* indicates player start on back nine
For the second straight day, play has been suspended due to darkness. Only three players are left on the golf course and they each have one hole remaining. They’ll have to come back Saturday morning to finish up, then the 36-hole cut will be made. However, it stands to reason that the cutline is firm at 1 under.
It’s not everyday that you see this. Ryo Hisatsune’s tee shot found the water on the drivable par-4 17th. He took a drop just to the left of the green and then chipped in for birdie. He’s 6 under in his last 5 holes and has taken the solo lead at 11 under. Read more about Hisatsune’s impressive finish to Friday’s round from Golfweek’s Todd Kelly.
Ryo Hisatsune takes the LEAD with a fantastic chip-in on 17.
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Was there ever a doubt?
The World No. 1 proved to us why he’s the World No. 1 on Friday at the WM Phoenix Open, bouncing back from a disappointing 2-over 73 in the opening round with a 6-under 65 in the second round. He’s 4 under after 36 holes, comfortably inside the 1-under cutline. For a 66th straight start, Scheffler will play the weekend.
After opening with a 73, Scottie Scheffler (T27/-4) posts a bogey-free 65 and sits seven strokes back of current leader Ryo Hisatsune.
Scheffler has two wins when trailing by seven or more strokes through 36 holes, including his first career TOUR title:
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Sahith Theegala is making the most of his sponsor exemption in Scottsdale this week. He fired a 6-under 65 on Friday to move into the top 5 on the leaderboard and will play the weekend with a chance to make a run at his second career PGA Tour victory. Today’s round didn’t come without its fair share of jaw-dropping shots, as Theegala holed out from off the green three separate times and made two eagles.
As of 7:30 p.m. ET, the projected cutline at the WM Phoenix Open is 1 under. Here are some big names to keep an eye on coming down the stretch:
Scottie Scheffler, -3 (thru 17)Sepp Straka, -2 (F)Wyndham Clark, -1 (F)Xander Schauffele, -1 (F)Collin Morikawa, -1 (F)Brooks Koepka, +2 (F)Jordan Spieth, +3 (thru 17)
Just as we all expected, Scottie Scheffler is bouncing back from his poor round on Thursday. The World No. 1 made his fourth birdie of the day at the par-5 13th to get to 2 under for the tournament, safely inside the 1-under cutline. As of 6:50 p.m. ET Friday, he has four holes remaining to extend his streak of consecutive made cuts to 66.
Team Japan sits atop the leaderboard Friday at the WM Phoenix Open.
Ryo Hitsatsune stuck his tee shot to eight feet at the par-3 16th and rolled in the birdie putt to move to 10 under for the tournament and into a tie for the lead with fellow countryman Hideki Matsuyama. The birdie at 16 is just the latest in an impressive stretch of holes for Hisatsune on the second nine. He made back-to-back birdies at Nos. 13 and 14 before an eagle at the reachable par-5 16th.
After turning in his first over-par round in eight months on Thursday, Scottie Scheffler was in the unfamiliar position of needing a good round to make the cut in Phoenix. So far, so good. The World No. 1 shot 2-under 33 on the front nine at TPC Scottsdale on Friday to get back to even par for the tournament, just one shot off the projected cutline as of 5:25 p.m. ET.
This shot was one of the “ups” in what has been and up-and-down day for Chris Gotterup thus far. He started with a bogey at No. 1 but made birdie at the third and another at the fifth with this chip in, but a bogey at No. 8 set him back to even on the day.
Sahith Theegala began his day on the cutline but quickly moved comfortably inside it with this hole-out from the bunker for eagle at No. 3. He went on to shoot 3-under 32 on the front nine and sits at 4 under for the tournament as of 5 p.m. ET.
Datagolf’s projected cutline as of 4:35 p.m. ET gives 1 under a 62 percent chance of being the cutline, while 2 under is at roughly 28 percent. Here’s a look at some key names around that mark:
T68. Joel Dahmen, ET68. Nick Taylor, ET68. Jordan Spieth, (through 6)T68. Harris English, (through 5)T68. Gary Woodland, E (through 4)T79. Scottie Scheffler, 1 over (through 6)T85. Brooks Koepka, 2 overT85. Tony Finau, 2 over (through 5)Where to watch the 2026 WM Phoenix Open on FridayGolf Channel: 3:30-7:30 p.m. ETESPN+: 9:15 a.m.-7:30 p.m. ETListen on Sirius XM: 2-8 p.m. ET
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Have a day, Si Woo Kim.
The 30-year-old from South Korea fired a 9-under 62 with a bogey on Friday at the WM Phoenix Open to vault himself into the top 5 on the leaderboard after a lackluster 73 in Thursday’s opening round. Kim made an eagle and eight birdies to offset the lone bogey at the 10th, his first hole of the day.
Scottie Scheffler is in an unfamiliar position right now. The World No. 1 carded his first over-par round of golf since June 2025 on Thursday, shooting 2-over 73, and is staring down the barrel of a missed cut unless he can turn things around Friday. He made par on No. 1, but he’ll need quite a few birdies to get inside the cutline, which is projected at 1 under. He’s made the weekend in 65 straight starts on the PGA Tour coming into this week.
It was another solid day for Akshay Bhatia, who will be playing the weekend for the first time in 2026 this week at the WM Phoenix Open.
Bhatia made an eagle, two birdies and 15 pars en route to a clean 4-under 67. He was in solo third when he walked off the golf course just before 3 p.m. ET.
“Drove the ball good. Iron play was really on point,” Bhatia said. “Made some really nice putts as well. Missed a couple putts, but all in all, a pretty good day. Kept the momentum. Kind of did that the first two days with some putts. I’m looking forward to the weekend.”
Bhatia, a Los Angeles native, missed the cut at both events on the California swing. He cited driver woes as the reason for that and said he made some changes to his mentality when the driver is in his hand. It worked, because he’s 16th in the field in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee so far this week.
“Sending a certain message in my golf swing with driver, I think that was important,” Bhatia said. “That’s kind of my weakness. I’ve had two-way misses. I found just an option to where I know what it’s going to do and I am sending the message through my golf swing. And it doesn’t need to look pretty to execute the shot.”
This shot from Cam Davis is must-see. The 30-year-old Australian pro stuck his tee shot to four feet at the drivable par-4 17th and tapped in for eagle. Not only was it impressive, but it was quite important for Davis, as it got him to 2 under for the tournament and inside the project cutline.
Barring a wild change in the project cutline, Brooks Koepka won’t be playing the weekend at TPC Scottsdale. Koepka, a two-time winner of the WM Phoenix Open, carded a 2-under 69 in Friday’s second round to follow-up a disappointing 4-over 75 on Thursday. At 2 over for the tournament, he’s currently two shots off the projected cutline and can start packing his bags.
It’s an especially tough pill to swallow for Koepka given the fact that he isn’t qualified for any signature events as part of the PGA Tour’s returning player program for former members of LIV Golf. That means he can’t play at Pebble Beach next week nor at the Genesis Invitational the week after that. The next time we’ll see him is at the Cognizant Classic in three weeks, which is played in his backyard at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens.
Some guys just love certain golf courses. See: Hideki Matsuyama and TPC Scottsdale.
Matsuyama is a two-time winner of the WM Phoenix Open, going back-to-back in 2016 and 2017. He has four top-5s and five top-10s and he’s fourth on the tournament’s all-time money list. So maybe his 7-under 64 at the Stadium Course on Friday — which featured a stretch of six straight birdies and vaulted him to the top of the leaderboard — comes as no surprise. Read more about Matsuyama’s impressive day from Golfweek’s Todd Kelly.
World No. 8 Xander Schauffele snapped his streak of 72 straight made cuts at Torrey Pines a week ago and after his start to Friday’s round in Phoenix, it appeared as if he might miss the weekend again.
He shot even-par 71 on Thursday before starting his second round with 2 over through 9 holes, but he’s found a rhythm on his way in. Schauffele made four birdies in five holes on Nos. 3-7 and is now 2 under for the tournament, inside the projected cutline.
After a disappointing 4-over 75 in Thursday’s first round, Brooks Koepka is creeping toward the cutline, but he still has work to do. He’s 3 under for the day and 1 over for the tournament, just one shot off the projected cutline of even par. With just three holes left, Koepka needs a few more birdies to give himself a chance. Given the fact that half the field still has yet to tee off, that cutline could definitely move, so he’ll be waiting around all day regardless.
This guy is on fire. Matsuyama made his eighth birdie of the day just after 1:30 p.m. ET to get to 11 under for the tournament and three shots clear of the field. The 33-year-old from Japan has won this event twice before, so he’s more than comfortable in this situation. Could we see yet another runaway victory on the PGA Tour in 2026? There’s a long way to go, but no one is playing as well as Hideki right now.
As of 1:10 p.m. ET, the projected cutline has dropped to even par. For much of Thursday and Friday morning, it was 1 under. Scottie Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns are outside that number right now, while players like Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Cam Young and Ben Griffin are narrowly inside the line.
Matsuyama birdied the 17th hole for a fifth consecutive birdie then stuffed his approach on the par-4 18th close to set up a sixth straight birdie. That ties him for second-most in tournament history, and, takes him to 9 under and the outright lead. After making the turn, a par at the first ended his birdie run.
Most consecutive birdies in WM Phoenix Open history
7: J.J. Henry, 20066: Hideki Matsuayama, 20266: Justin Thomas, 20186: Justin Leonard, 20046: Chris DiMarco, 20046: Steve Stricker, 20036: Ed Fiori, 19926: Mark Lye, 1991
Matsuyama, who won Tiger’s Hero World Challenge towards the end of last year, is lighting up TPC Scottsdale early Friday morning. Playing the second nine first, he just birdied the 16th for his fourth straight birdie and has it to 7 under, one off the lead of Chris Gotterup. Sam Stevens is also 7 under through eight holes in the early going.
Matsuyama has two wins (2016, 2017), four top-5s and five top-10s in this event. He is also fourth on the tournament’s all-time money list.
Nine players finished opening round on Friday
It took a little morning golf for nine players at TPC Scottsdale to finish their opening round. The group did so at 8:43 a.m. local time, however.
Tom Kim off to hot start on Friday
Tom Kim isn’t known for playing quickly, but he got off to a fast start on Friday, posting birdies on three of his first half-dozen holes of play during the second round of action.
Kim started on the back, but made birdies on Nos. 11, 13 and 15 to get back into red numbers after a round of 73 on Thursday. Kim has made three starts at TPC Scottsdale and made the cut in all.
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The total purse for the 2026 WM Phoenix Open is $9.6 million. The winner receives $1.728 million, or 18 percent of the total purse.