“But I’m going to have fun with it, and I’m pretty relaxed on the golf course“. He’s still good enough to pop into contention occasionally, a la Phil Mickelson, but the days of him living in inside the top half of the leader board at every major are...
Day held off a challenge from the American to win the title, carding a record score of 20 under par after 72 holes, the first time a golfer has scored that low in a major championship.
Five strokes off the pace after the second round at a sun-baked Whistling Straits, the Masters and U.S. Open champion fired a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 to vault within two strokes of Australian leader Jason Day.
Grace, whose highlight of the day occurred when he holed his bunker shot on the 18th for birdie, now sits at 12-under par for the championship and in a tie for third.
There, Lee picked off like the previous five holes hadn’t even occurred, shooting four birdies in his first five holes to make up for some of his early morning losses and leap back up the leaderboard.
Australia’s Matt Jones completed a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead on 11-under 133 as the second round concluded at the 97th PGA Championship.
There are many favourites to win the title, namely Spieth, McIlroy and Dustin Johnson. The second round of the PGA Championship had just about everything Friday. “We’ll just have to see what happens”. “It’s only the first round”.
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