2021 Memorial Tournament leaderboard: Patrick Cantlay, Jon Rahm co-lead at Muirfield Village

The past two champions of the Memorial have been awesome so far this week at a place where they've had success

The cream rose to the top during a long second day of Memorial Tournament action on Friday. This is not unexpected at a place like Muirfield Village as elite ball-strikers typically win this tournament, but at a stop-and-start event like this one, sometimes the entire rhythm to the tournament can feel incredibly uneven just as it has over the first two days. The late wave on Thursday afternoon got washed out and had to finish up their first rounds early on Friday before playing 18 more holes in the middle of the day, which led to days like co-leader Patrick Cantlay had where he played 33 holes after getting up at 4:30 a.m. Cantlay finished off a first-round 69 early in the day before shooting 67 into the afternoon. He was joined late in the evening by Jon Rahm, who shot 69 in Round 1 and is 5 under thru his first 15 holes in Round 2 (which he'll finish on Saturday). This is significant because these two have won the last two Memorials and are also two of the 10 best ball-strikers in the world. A rubber match between them on Sunday would be awesome.