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Scottie Scheffler made a late charge to join Shane Lowry and four others in a six-way tie for the lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida.
World number one Scheffler made an eagle and three birdies in the back nine to card a second-round 67.
He is now seven under for the event alongside round-one leader Lowry, who added a 71 to his opening 66.
Americans Wyndham Clark, Russell Henley and Brian Harman and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama are also tied for the lead.
England’s Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood all missed the cut.
“There’s a lot of names up at the top of the leaderboard right now,” Scheffler said.
“It’s pretty stacked going into the weekend. I’m proud of how I finished to kind of give myself a good chance.”
Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy is six shots behind the leading group after an erratic two-under-par 70 that included six birdies and four bogeys.
Fleetwood, meanwhile, endured a nightmare round at the Bay Hill Club & Lodgein Orlando as he went round in 80 to finish nine over.
The 33-year-old struck three consecutive balls into the water at the par-five sixth on his way to a quintuple-bogey 10.
