No. 1 Rahm shares lead with Thomas, Schenk at Torrey Pines

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Top-ranked Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas made the birdies they needed to keep pace on the easier North Course at Torrey Pines on Thursday and shared the lead with hard-charging Adam Schenk after two rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open.

Schenk made eight straight birdies to shoot a career-low, 10-under 62, also on the North Course, and joined Rahm (65) and Thomas (63) at 13-under 131.

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The 30-year-old Schenk, who grew up on an Indiana sod farm, started his impressive run of birdies on the fourth hole and ended it on No. 11. He also birdied Nos. 16 and 17 in his bogey-free round.

All three leaders opened Wednesday on the South Course, where Rahm won the U.S. Open last year for his first major. Rahm also got his first PGA Tour victory in 2017 at Torrey Pines, a municipal facility on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The final two rounds will be played on the South Course.

Schenk recorded the longest consecutive birdies streak at this tournament since 2003.

"I lost track of how many I made in a row, but there was a lot of low scores on the North Course yesterday and I knew there was a lot of gettable holes and I needed to keep going if I wanted to get up on top of the leaderboard and hopefully stay there throughout the weekend," Schenk said. "So I know I had to try to keep the pedal down and not get satisfied with how many birdies I made."

Schenk struggled to hit fairways, but his approaches were good enough to give himself reasonable birdie chances.

"Just a lot of long putts," he said. "It’s not like I was hitting it to 10 feet every time making the putts. I had a lot of lengthy ones."

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