The PGA Championship has reached the halfway stage and it looks like certain LIV Golfers are going to be prominent on the leaderboard come Sunday evening.
Brooks Koepka came close to winning The Masters last month, eventually finishing T2nd along with fellow LIVer Phil Mickelson, while 2018 Green Jacket winner Patrick Reed was T4th.
Koepka is on the charge again, sitting at two-under-par after 36-holes at Oak Hill thanks to a 66 (-4) on Friday that included five birdies on the back nine. The two-time PGA Champion will fancy his chances of winning a third Wanamaker Trophy, but to do so he’ll have to overtake fellow LIV player Bryson DeChambeau.
Bryson shot 66 on Thursday and stumbled early on Friday to drop to one-over but came home strong in the calmer afternoon conditions to post a 71 and get in at three-under-par. The 2020 US Open champion, winner at Winged Foot in New York, is just two behind Scheffler, Conners and Hovland who lead at five-under.
Two-time Major winner Dustin Johnson, winner last week in Tulsa, was three-under-par after day one but fell back to one-over after a 74 on Friday. DJ was on the more difficult late-early side of the draw. He’s just inside the top 20 at T19th along with Mito Pereira and Harold Varner III.
At Augusta last month, 12 of the 18 made the cut and once again 12 of the 16 LIV players have made the cut this week at Oak Hill. The four players to miss the cut were Anirban Lahiri, Joaquin Niemann, Talor Gooch – who now looks set to miss the US Open – and Abraham Ancer.
Take a look at how they’re all getting on after day two:
LIV Golf leaderboard at the PGA Championship – day two
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T4th: Bryson DeChambeau -3
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T5th: Brooks Koepka -2
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T19th: Dustin Johnson, Mito Pereira, Harold Varner III +1
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T36th: Patrick Reed, Sihwan Kim +3
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T51st: Cameron Smith, Dean Burmester +4
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T61st: Phil Mickelson, Brendan Steele, Thomas Pieters +5
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CUT LINE
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T89th: Anirban Lahiri +7
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T99th: Joaquin Niemann +8
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T120th: Talor Gooch +10
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T123rd: Abraham Ancer +11