Key events
However, hopes are rising for Justin Rose. The 2013 US Open champion finished strongly yesterday, in 32, a brilliant eagle on the final in the gloomy conditions. Hartley Wintney’s finest is taking full advantage of that momentum and has opened his round in scorching fashion today, with birdies at 2, 3 and now 4. Suddenly, after worrying about the cut yesterday, the 43-year-old Englishman has decided -8 and is a big part of the discussion!
Here we go, the start of Moving Day. Or, to put it another way, the point where Rory McIlroy’s latest attempt to end his long, big drought goes wrong. Hopes were raised on Thursday with that excellent street-fighting 66, but yesterday’s level-par 71 gave up ground to the leaders. As a result, a low score is required today and a slow start is of no use. And unfortunately, a slow start is exactly what he serves. Bogey on 1 after visiting a greenside bunker. He is one-over for his round through 3 and -4 overall.
Preamble
Welcome to Moving Day at the 106th PGA Championship. This is what the top of the leaderboard looks like after 36 holes (the last few of which were completed after a fog delay this morning)…
-12: Schauffel
-11: Morikawa
-10: Tea Gala
-9: Detry, Scheffler, Hubbard, DeChambeau
-8: Eckroat, Hovland, Finau, Burmester
-7: English, Wallace, Matsuyama, MacIntyre, Koepka
… here’s a list of big names that didn’t make it to the weekend …
Ludvig Åberg, Jon Rahm, Matt Fitzpatrick, Adam Scott, Sam Burns, Sungjae Im, Wyndham Clark, Francesco Molinari and Si Woo Kim; former champions Jason Dufner, Phil Mickelson, YE Yang, Jimmy Walker, Shaun Micheel, Padraig Harrington, Rich Beem, John Daly and Tiger Woods; and the subject of last year’s fairy tale, Michael Block.
… and here are today’s start times. US unless otherwise stated, always BST. It is on!
Starting at hole 1
16:28 Max Homa, Cameron Smith (Aus), Jordan Spieth
16:39 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Alexander Bjoerk (Zwe), Maverick McNealy
16:50 Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
17:01 Jason Day (Aus), Shane Lowry (Irl), Justin Rose (Eng)
17:12 Doug Ghim, Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Alejandro Tosti (Arg)
17:23 Lee Hodges, Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Alexander Noren (Swedish)
17:34 Keegan Bradley, Lucas Herbert (Aus), Justin Thomas
17:45 Brooks Koepka, Taylor Moore, Aaron Rai (English)
17:56 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Matt Wallace (Eng)
18:07 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Harris English, Tony Finau
18:18 Bryson DeChambeau, Austin Eckroat, Viktor Hovland (Nor)
18:29 Thomas Detry (Bel), Mark Hubbard, Scottie Scheffler
18:40 Collin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele, Sahith Theegala
From 10
16:33 Tom Hoge, Kurt Kitayama, Will Zalatoris
16:44 Brice Garnett, Patrick Reed, Jesper Svensson (Swedish)
16:55 Luke Donald (Eng), Lucas Glover, Russell Henley
17:06 Zachary Blair, Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Adam Svensson (Can)
17:17 Andrew Putnam, Sebastian Soederberg (Swe), Gary Woodland
17:28 Brian Harman, Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Cameron Young
17:39 Ben Kohles, Thorbjoern Olesen (Den), Brendon Todd
17:50 Ryan Fox (Nzl), Adam Hadwin (Can), Grayson Murray
18:01 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Martin Kaymer (German), Jeremy Wells
18:12 Talor Gooch, Jordan Smith (Eng), Erik van Rooyen (Rsa)
18:23 Rickie Fowler, Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Joaquin Niemann (Chi)
18:34 Stephan Jaeger (German), Seong-Hyeon Kim (Kor), Braden Shattuck
18:45 Corey Conners (Can), Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Dustin Johnson
