The second round of the PGA Championship closed with a three-way tie for first place. Scottie Scheffler, Corey Conners and Viktor Hovland finished at 5 under par, two strokes ahead of the second-place finishers.
It was a very productive day for the three current leaders of the PGA Championship. Scheffler and Conners were able to move up two places, while Hovland moved into the lead from T6.
But the comeback of the day was undoubtedly Brooks Koepka. The LIV star had finished with +2 on the first day, to anchor in the middle of the leaderboard, but was able to make a -4 in Round 2 to get dangerously close to the leaders.
It was not the same for Bryson DeChambeau, who signed a +1 card in Round 2 (-3 overall) that dropped him to T4. Even worse went the round for Eric Cole, who fell to T19, with a round score of +4 (+1 overall).
Another who fell back quite a bit from the first day was Dustin Johnson, who also slipped to T19 from his T3 on the inaugural day of the PGA Championship.
After the second round, 76 golfers made the cut and will continue to play through the weekend. Of the stars who closed poorly on the first day, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, and Justin Thomas managed to recover and, some just barely, make the cut.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Wyndham Clark, Cameron Young, Jason Day and Talor Gooch were among the players who were expected to make the cut but were unable to do so in this edition of the PGA Championship.
2023 PGA Championship Leaderboard
Below is the leaderboard for the 2023 PGA Championship. All players who made the cut (5 over par or better) are included:
T1- Corey Conners
T1- Viktor Hovland
T4- Bryson DeChambeau
T4- Justin Suh
T6- Brooks Koepka
T6- Callum Tarren
T8- Taylor Pendrith
T8- Justin Rose
T10- Keegan Bradley
T10- Michael Block
T10- Sepp Stracka
T10- Keith Mitchell
T10- Min Woo Lee
T10- Adam Svenson
T10- Rory McIlroy
T10- Shane lowry
T10- Matt NeSmith
T19- Cam Davis
T19- Dustin Johnson
T19- Patrick Cantlay
T19- Mito Pereira
T19- Erick Cole
T19- Ryan Fox
T19- K.H. Lee
T19- Harold Varner III
T19- Beau Hossler
T19- Kurt Kitayama
T19- Collin Morikawa
T30- Adam Scott
T30- Stephan Jaeger
T30- Victor Perez
T30- Sahith Theegala
T30- JT Poston
T35- Hayden Buckley
T35- Sihwan Kim
T35- Patrick Reed
T35- Tommy Fleetwood
T35- Hideki Matsuyama
T35- Max Homa
T35- Adam Hadwin
T35- Matt Wallace
T35- Joel Dahmen
T35- Nicolai Hojgaard
T35- Sam Stevens
T35- Padraig Harrington
T35- Taylor Moore
T48- Dean Burmester
T48- Pablo Larrzabal
T48- Chez Reavie
T48- Lucas Herbert
T48- Xander Schauffele
T48- Ben Taylor
T48- Thriston Lawrence
T48- Tom Hoge
T48- Cameron Smith
T48- Jon Rahm
T48- Adrian Meronk
T48- Mark Hubbard
T48- Rikuya Hoshino
T60- Taylor Montgomery
T60- Thomas Pieters
T60- Tony Finau
T60- Chris Kirk
T60- Tyler Hatton
T60- Phil Mickelson
T60- Alex Smalley
T60- Thomas Detry
T60- Patrick Rodgers
T60- Kazuki Higa
T60- Zach Johnson
T60- Justin Thomas
T60- Jordan Spieth
T60- Lee Hodges
T60- Yannik Paul
T60- Denny McCarthy