US PGA Championship R2

August 06-09
TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, California
$11,000,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Tommy Fleetwood fired a brilliant second round of 64 to lead a three-pronged bid for an extremely rare English success in the US PGA Championship in San Francisco.

China’s Li Haotong held the halfway lead at Harding Park on eight under par, with Fleetwood sharing second place with compatriot Justin Rose, defending champion Brooks Koepka, Jason Day, Daniel Berger and France’s Mike Lorenzo-Vera.

Fleetwood’s fellow Englishman and Ryder Cup team-mate Paul Casey was a shot further back on five under, while Rory McIlroy lies seven shots off the pace after a frustrating 69, a stroke ahead of playing partner Tiger Woods.

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Jim Barnes (1916 and 1919) is the only Englishman to have lifted the Wanamaker Trophy, but Fleetwood, Rose and Casey will have high hopes of ending the 101-year wait for an English winner on Sunday.

“Yesterday I had a decent score going and had a bad couple of holes on 12 and 13 which halted progress,” Fleetwood said. “Level par wasn’t a bad score and today I feel like my game is improving day by day since I’ve come back.

“Today I hit a lot of fairways and that clearly makes it easier from there round this golf course.”

Fleetwood is seeking his first major title after finishing runner-up to Koepka in the 2018 US Open at Shinnecock Hills and second in last year’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush.

“I’m the same person. I’ve got a little bit more experience,” Fleetwood added.

“If you look at it, was I playing better at Shinnecock? Maybe. But that might only be because I’ve only played two weeks since coming back.

“I feel the same, I guess, with a few more majors under my belt of experience. Hopefully they stand me in good stead over the weekend. Any time you’re in contention for a major, it’s an experience, and I feel like I’ve done it a few times, so every time you learn.

“Every time these weeks come about you just hope – you prepare for it to be your week, and today was a great day. Got a weekend of golf left. We’ll see.”

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Casey has a best finish of 32nd from four starts since the PGA Tour returned to action and admitted he had struggled to adapt to playing without fans.

“I’ve really missed it, plain and simple,” Casey said. “I’ve felt I’ve not been able to sort of just get the excitement going. I felt very flat.

“Life away from the golf course here is also quite flat. You’d go out and have dinners and hang out with people and none of that exists now as we know it, so I’ve not really enjoyed being out playing golf.”

Li, who finished third in the 2017 Open Championship after a closing 63 at Royal Birkdale, admitted his performance had come as a surprise after missing the cut in the Memorial Tournament and finishing 75th in the 78-man field in WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational since returning to action.

“I’ve got no expectation actually because of staying at home doing nothing. I just want to go out there and have fun,” the 25-year-old said.

“I didn’t even think I could play like this this week, especially, like you said, got no confidence. Probably it helped me clear my mind a little bit this week.”

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Koepka, who is seeking an historic hat-trick of victories in the event, is ominously poised on the leaderboard, although the four-time major winner needed treatment on the course for a problem during his 68.

The four-time major winner has struggled with a left knee injury this season but said: “It was my hip. Nothing to do with my knee. It’s fine.

“I woke up this morning, it was tight, and I worked out and it got even tighter and then we loosened it up. It was a little tight when I was hitting balls on the range but it’s nothing to be worried about. We’ll loosen it up again and it will be a lot better.

“My TFL (tensor fascia latae) is usually pretty tight on the side. It just kind of moved to the front and tightened up the front and kind of the inside and groin. It will be fine. It’s something I’m not worried about.”

Four birdies in a row from the seventh briefly got McIlroy within five of the lead before a deflating triple bogey on the 12th, while Woods failed to hole a putt of any significance in a 72 which left him on level par.

Open champion Shane Lowry is on the same score after also struggling to a 72 and was so frustrated that he snapped a club over his knee on the 13th.

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Rickie Fowler missed his first cut in a major for four years after suffering an embarrassing mishap in the second round.

He was left with a six-inch putt for a bogey on the sixth, his 15th hole of the day, but stubbed his putter into the ground before it made contact with the ball.

The ball barely moved but the stroke counted and Fowler tapped in for a double-bogey six before dropping another shot on the eighth to add a 69 to his opening 73.

The 31-year-old American then faced a lengthy wait to see if his total of two over par would be enough to make the weekend, but the cut fell at one over.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Haotong Li	-8	67	65	132
T2	Daniel Berger	-6	67	67	134
T2	Jason Day	-6	65	69	134
T2	Tommy Fleetwood	-6	70	64	134
T2	Brooks Koepka	-6	66	68	134
T2	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	-6	66	68	134
T2	Justin Rose	-6	66	68	134
T8	Paul Casey	-5	68	67	135
T8	Cameron Champ	-5	71	64	135
T8	Brendon Todd	-5	65	70	135
T11	Lanto Griffin	-4	68	68	136
T11	Dustin Johnson	-4	69	67	136
T11	Alex Noren	-4	67	69	136
T11	Xander Schauffele	-4	66	70	136
T11	Bernd Wiesberger	-4	68	68	136
T15	Bud Cauley	-3	66	71	137
T15	Joel Dahmen	-3	69	68	137
T15	Tony Finau	-3	67	70	137
T15	Dylan Frittelli	-3	70	67	137
T15	Si Woo Kim	-3	69	68	137
T15	Hideki Matsuyama	-3	70	67	137
T15	Scottie Scheffler	-3	66	71	137
T15	Brendan Steele	-3	66	71	137
T15	Matthew Wolff	-3	69	68	137
T24	Bryson DeChambeau	-2	68	70	138
T24	Collin Morikawa	-2	69	69	138
T24	Patrick Reed	-2	68	70	138
T24	Adam Scott	-2	68	70	138
T24	Brandt Snedeker	-2	72	66	138
T24	Harold Varner III	-2	72	66	138
T30	Abraham Ancer	-1	69	70	139
T30	Adam Hadwin	-1	68	71	139
T30	Brian Harman	-1	68	71	139
T30	Viktor Hovland	-1	68	71	139
T30	Nate Lashley	-1	69	70	139
T30	Joost Luiten	-1	71	68	139
T30	Denny McCarthy	-1	70	69	139
T30	Rory McIlroy	-1	70	69	139
T30	Victor Perez	-1	70	69	139
T30	Jon Rahm	-1	70	69	139
T30	Webb Simpson	-1	71	68	139
T30	Kevin Streelman	-1	69	70	139
T30	Gary Woodland	-1	67	72	139
T43	Harris English	E	69	71	140
T43	Emiliano Grillo	E	70	70	140
T43	Jim Herman	E	71	69	140
T43	Tom Hoge	E	72	68	140
T43	Billy Horschel	E	69	71	140
T43	Kevin Kisner	E	67	73	140
T43	Kurt Kitayama	E	68	72	140
T43	Danny Lee	E	69	71	140
T43	Shane Lowry	E	68	72	140
T43	Robert MacIntyre	E	73	67	140
T43	Keith Mitchell	E	68	72	140
T43	Ryan Palmer	E	74	66	140
T43	Doc Redman	E	73	67	140
T43	Cameron Smith	E	71	69	140
T43	Tiger Woods	E	68	72	140
44	Russell Henley	E	71	69	140
T58	Byeong Hun An	1	72	69	141
T58	Patrick Cantlay	1	73	68	141
T58	Mark Hubbard	1	70	71	141
T58	Mackenzie Hughes	1	73	68	141
T58	Sung Kang	1	70	71	141
T58	Luke List	1	72	69	141
T58	Adam Long	1	73	68	141
T58	Phil Mickelson	1	72	69	141
T58	Louis Oosthuizen	1	70	71	141
T58	J.T. Poston	1	67	74	141
T58	Ian Poulter	1	73	68	141
T58	Chez Reavie	1	71	70	141
T58	Rory Sabbatini	1	71	70	141
T58	Charl Schwartzel	1	73	68	141
T58	Jordan Spieth	1	73	68	141
T58	Sepp Straka	1	70	71	141
T58	Justin Thomas	1	71	70	141
T58	Matt Wallace	1	71	70	141
T58	Bubba Watson	1	70	71	141
T58	Erik van Rooyen	1	71	70	141
CUT	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	2	72	70	142
CUT	Jason Dufner	2	70	72	142
CUT	Rickie Fowler	2	73	69	142
CUT	Jim Furyk	2	71	71	142
CUT	Talor Gooch	2	71	71	142
CUT	Ryo Ishikawa	2	72	70	142
CUT	Zach Johnson	2	66	76	142
CUT	Chan Kim	2	72	70	142
CUT	Marc Leishman	2	70	72	142
CUT	Shaun Norris	2	69	73	142
CUT	Carlos Ortiz	2	72	70	142
CUT	Henrik Stenson	2	70	72	142
CUT	Lucas Glover	3	71	72	143
CUT	Tyrrell Hatton	3	72	71	143
CUT	Lucas Herbert	3	73	70	143
CUT	Jason Kokrak	3	69	74	143
CUT	Matt Kuchar	3	71	72	143
CUT	Andrew Landry	3	74	69	143
CUT	Tom Lewis	3	67	76	143
CUT	Sebastián Muñoz	3	71	72	143
CUT	Kevin Na	3	70	73	143
CUT	Steve Stricker	3	72	71	143
CUT	Michael Thompson	3	71	72	143
CUT	Richy Werenski	3	71	72	143
CUT	Xinjun Zhang	3	72	71	143
CUT	Alex Beach	4	73	71	144
CUT	Wyndham Clark	4	71	73	144
CUT	Matthew Fitzpatrick	4	74	70	144
CUT	Sungjae Im	4	73	71	144
CUT	Joaquin Niemann	4	75	69	144
CUT	Cheng Tsung Pan	4	72	72	144
CUT	Scott Piercy	4	70	74	144
CUT	Keegan Bradley	5	73	72	145
CUT	Corey Conners	5	69	76	145
CUT	Tyler Duncan	5	74	71	145
CUT	Max Homa	5	74	71	145
CUT	Jazz Janewattananond	5	74	71	145
CUT	Matt Jones	5	70	75	145
CUT	Troy Merritt	5	73	72	145
CUT	Matthias Schwab	5	69	76	145
CUT	Brian Stuard	5	72	73	145
CUT	Ben Cook	6	71	75	146
CUT	Sergio Garcia	6	73	73	146
CUT	Benjamin Hebert	6	75	71	146
CUT	Graeme McDowell	6	72	74	146
CUT	Andrew Putnam	6	73	73	146
CUT	Bob Sowards	6	71	75	146
CUT	Joohyung Kim	7	70	77	147
CUT	Rob Labritz	7	71	76	147
CUT	David Muttitt	7	72	75	147
CUT	Jimmy Walker	7	73	74	147
CUT	Danny Willett	7	75	72	147
CUT	Rafa Cabrera Bello	8	72	76	148
CUT	Jason Caron	8	76	72	148
CUT	Martin Kaymer	8	66	82	148
CUT	John O’leary	8	75	73	148
CUT	Mike Auterson	9	75	74	149
CUT	Davis Love III	9	73	76	149
CUT	Shaun Micheel	9	72	77	149
CUT	J.R. Roth	9	74	75	149
CUT	Nick Taylor	9	76	73	149
CUT	Daniel Balin	10	74	76	150
CUT	Richard Berberian Jr.	10	76	74	150
CUT	Marty Jertson	10	74	76	150
CUT	Ryan Vermeer	10	79	71	150
CUT	Marcus Kinhult	11	74	77	151
CUT	Ken Tanigawa	11	78	73	151
CUT	Shawn Warren	11	78	73	151
CUT	Justin Bertsch	13	78	75	153
CUT	Jorge Campillo	14	74	80	154
CUT	Jeff Hart	14	77	77	154
CUT	Rich Beem	15	80	75	155
CUT	Rod Perry	16	75	81	156
CUT	Alex Knoll	17	77	80	157
CUT	Judd Gibb	21	77	84	161
CUT	Zach J. Johnson	21	82	79	161