TULSA, Okla. – The cut line was every bit the attention grabber in Friday’s second round of the PGA Championship as was the first page of the leaderboard.
The winds whipping off the Oklahoma plains weren’t as ferocious as feared but strong enough to help bounce the projected cut line up and down most of the day as players yearned for par at Southern Hills Country Club.
In the calm of the end of the round, the cut fell at 4-over 144. The top 70 plus ties made it through to the weekend.
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World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler does not. But four-time Wanamaker Trophy winner and 15-time major champion Tiger Woods does.
Woods, who won the 2007 PGA Championship here, grinded his way to the weekend on his bad right leg and birdied two of his final six holes to move from one shot outside the cutline to one shot below. His 69 left him at 3 over.
“Coming back here to a place that I’ve had success on, to play against the best players in the world, that’s what we all want to be able to do,” Woods said. “Fortunately enough, I’m able to somehow do it. I’ve had a great staff that have put Humpty Dumpty back together, and we’ll go out there tomorrow, and hopefully tomorrow I can do something like what Bubba did today.”
Bubba Watson shot 63 in the second round. With rounds of 70-72, Shane Lowry extended the longest active streak of cuts made in major to 12. Will Zalatoris leads after two rounds.
However, here are those who were less fortunate and headed home.