The second round of the 2023 PGA Championship was slightly delayed on Friday because heavy frost postponed play on Thursday. Heading into our live updates from Oak Hill, Bryson DeChambeau has the one stroke lead at -4.
1:38 PM ET–The leaderboard at the moment is 1) Bryson DeChambeau of Modesto, California -4, 2) Corey Conners of Canada, and Scottie Scheffler of Ridgewood, New Jersey -3, 4) Keegan Bradley of Woodstock, Vermont, Ryan Fox of New Zealand, Justin Rose of England and Viktor Hovland of Norway -2, 8) Taylor Pendrith of Canada and Justin Suh of San Jose, California at -1…
1:40 PM ET–Scheffler birdies the first hole to go to -4…
1:50 PM ET–Really good round for world number four Patrick Cantlay of Long Beach, California. After being +4 in round one, he is -4 after 17 holes in round two to get back to even par….
1:51 PM ET–There are a few players who were in contention after round one who have played poorly in round two…they are American Eric Cole (-5 on Thursday and +6 on Friday), American Dustin Johnson (-3 on Thursday and +4 on Saturday), Adam Scott of Australia (-2 on Thursday and +4 on Friday), American Hayden Buckley (-1 on Thursday and +4 on Friday), Pablo Larrazabal of Spain (-1 on Thursday and +5 on Friday), and Thomas Pieters of Belgium (-1 on Thursday and +6 on Friday)…
1:56 PM ET–Scheffler, the world number two, birdies the second, to take the outright lead at -5…
2:05 PM ET–Hovland birdies the first to move to -3 and two back of Scheffler…
2:12 PM ET–Struggles for Rahm at 2023 PGA Championship…was at +6 after Thursday…
2:20 PM ET–Hovland birdies the second to go -4 and one back of Scheffler and tied with DeChambeau…
2:20 PM ET–Rose pars the 18th to finish at -1…was in contention until a rough patch on the sixth and seventh holes as he shot back-to-back bogeys…
2:26 PM ET–Fox bogeys the 15th hole to drop to -1…
2:29 PM ET–Winds really picking up at Oak Hill…
2:31 PM ET–Now raining at Oak Hill…
2:32 PM ET–Interesting that contenders and prior major winners Bryson DeChambeau and Keegan Bradley are golfing together…
2:39 PM ET–Hovland gets into trouble on the third hole…ends up in the bunker…has a bogey and drops to -3….
2:41 PM ET–interesting statistic that players are over par on the par fives…
2:43 PM ET–Conners birdies the 13th hole to improve to -4 and one back of Scheffler…
3:04 PM ET–Bradley birdies the second to improve to -3…
3:05 PM ET–Conners puts himself in a birdie opportunity on the 15th with a great tee shot…
3:09 PM ET–Conners birdies the 15th to improve to -5 and in a tie with Scheffler…
3:19 PM ET–DeChambeau bogeys the third to drop to -3 and two back of Conners and Scheffler…
3:22 PM ET–Great shot by Conners from the bunker on the 16th hole…
3:22 PM ET–Birdie by Suh on the third to go to -2 and in sixth place…
3:27 PM ET–Scheffer bogeys the seventh to drop to -4…Canadian Corey Conners of Listowel is the lone player in the lead at -5…
3:40 PM ET–Bradley birdies the fourth hole to improve to -4…tied with Scheffler and one back of Conners…
3:41 PM ET–Impressive long par putt by Conners on the 17th hole…remains one up on Scheffler and Bradley…
3:45 PM ET–Long par putt by Scheffler keeps him at -4…
3:53 PM ET–Six golfers in contention…Conners at -5, Scheffler and Bradley at -4, Hovland and DeChambeau at -3, and Suh at -2…
3:55 PM ET–Conners makes long par putt on the 18th hole to maintain his -5 score…still has the front nine to play…remember when Mike Weir won the 2003 Masters to become the only Canadian man to win a major, he won because he made several difficult long par putts…
4:22 PM ET–DeChambeau misses his long par putt on the sixth hole…actually has a double bogey on one of the most difficult holes on the golf course and drops to -1…
4:29 PM ET–Conners makes a long birdie putt on the par four second hole and moves to -6…is two strokes up on Scheffler and Bradley, and three strokes up on Hovland…
4:44 PM ET–Bradley makes long bogey putt on seventh hole to drop to -3…
4:45 PM ET–Hovland birdies the 10th hole to move to -4 and tied with Scheffler…
5:08 PM ET–England’s Callum Warren moves to -2 and in fifth place after a birdie…
5:09 PM ET–Conners makes tough par putt on the fourth hole…remains at -6…
5:31 PM ET–Scheffler birdies the 14th hole and is one stroke back at -5 and one back of Conners…
5:43 PM ET–Scheffler birdies the 15th hole and is tied with Conners at -6…
5:47 PM ET–Tarren birdied the fourth hole and improves to -3 and three strokes back of Conners and Scheffler…
6:10 PM ET–Conners bogeys the seventh and drops to -5, one back of Scheffler who is at -6…
6:22 PM ET–Bradley bogeys 13th hole to drop to -2…
6:22 PM ET–DeChambeau birdies the 13th hole to improve to -3…second birdie hole in the last three holes…three back of Scheffler and tied with Tarren at -3…
6:31 PM ET–Scheffler bogeys the 18th and drops to -5…now tied with Conners for the lead…
6:37 PM ET–2019 British Open champion Shane Lowry of Ireland bogeys the 17th and drops to -1 after temporarily being in contention at -2…
6:40 PM ET–DeChambeau birdied the 14th to improve to -4…
6:41 PM ET–Conners finishes his round at -5 and tied for the lead at Scheffler…
6:44 PM ET–Justin Suh birdies the fifth hole to improve to -3..has two birdies and zero bogeys in the second round as he also birdied the 12th hole…
6:57 PM ET–Hovland tied for the lead at -5 with Conners and Scheffler after birdieing the 18th hole…
7:24 PM ET–Justin Suh birdies the eighth to improve to -3
7:25 PM ET–One player who had a much better round two than round one was four-time major champion Brooks Koepka…he finished his round at -2 after posting a four round score of -2…went four-under-par in his last seven holes…had a birdie on the 12th, 15th, 17th and 18th holes…
7:30 PM ET–Keegan Bradley bogeys the 17th hole to drop to -1…
7:49 PM ET–DeChambeau bogeys 18th to drop to -3…
7:53 PM ET–Round 2 Leaderboard: 1) Conners, Hovland & Scheffler -5 4) DeChambeau & Suh -3 6) Koepka & Tarren -2
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