Bhullar at T-31, Shubhankar struggles again at WGC-HSBC

Gaganjeet Bhullar produced a second successive 72 but Shubhankar Sharma continued to struggle with another eighth-over 80 in the second round of the World Golf Champions-HSBC Champions on Friday.

Bhullar, who was T-27 slipped to T-31, as Tony Finau (66-67) took a three-shot lead over first leader, Patrick Reed (64-72).

Shubhankar, playing his fourth straight WGC Championships, is now 16-over and lying at the bottom at 77th place. His best at the WGC has been T-9 in his first appearance in Mexico.

Starting from back nine, Bhullar birdied the 10th hole, double bogeyed the 18th and then picked up birdies at the second and fourth holes before dropping a shot on 17th.

Shubhankar started with a bogey on 19th and then had a double on 17th and a birdie on 18th to turn in 2-over.

On the second nine, he bogeyed five times and also had a double and just one birdie on Par-5 second.

Finau built a three-shot lead as Reed began to stumble when Finau hit an approach from the rough on the 11th hole ...