The American Xander Schauffele remains the leader of the PGA Championshipwith a cumulative -12 after a day on Friday marked by the arrest of the world number one, Scottie Schefflerwho after getting out of jail had a great second round and was three strokes from the lead.
Schauffele finished the day of the second major of the season played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville (Kentucky, USA) with youn -3 on the card with 4 birdies for a bogey, enough to stay first after Thursday’s -9.
In the second position with aggregate -11 is the American Collin Morikawa who posted an excellent round of 65 strokes (-6) with seven birdies for a bogey on his final hole.
Third is also the American Sahith Theegala, who signed -4 and had an aggregate of -10.
Scheffler, for his part, signed 66 strokes (-5) after delivering a card with 6 birdies for a bogey, which earned him moved up to fourth position in the table with an aggregate score of -9.
The world number one had a very chaotic morningwhere it is was arrested while trying to enter the golf course by jumping a police checkpoint. After being taken to jail, he was released on charges and arrived in time to play in the second round.
Scheffler, recent champion of the Augusta Masters, assured in a press conference “I can’t explain what happened this morning”, although he did give details of how he dealt with the day.
“I spent a little stretching in a jail cell, it was my first time. It was part of my warm-up. I was sitting there waiting and I started doing my warm-up because I felt like there was a chance I could still Come here and play, so I can start following my routine”, he explained.
Rahm and Woods missed the cut
On a bad golf day, Spaniard Jon Rahm missed the cut after carding a 72 stroke (+1) with a card of three birdies for two bogeys and a double bogey. Combined with the 70 (-1) of the first round, they resulted in a combined 142 hits (even).
He the cut is -1, so Rahm, in position 78, He is just one shot away from qualifying for the next rounds.
“I don’t know if it was a strange day; I made mistakes. If you don’t go through the streets on this course, it’s complicated. I did enough to, in some ways, save the lap a little bit”.
Also He missed the cut, even more so than Rahm, the five-time Augusta Masters champion, Tiger Woods.
On Friday, Woods shot 77 strokes (+6) with three birdies, three bogeys and two double bogeys to finish with a combined score of +7 in 136th place.
In addition to Rahm and Woods, Spaniards Adrián Otaegui and David Puig are below the cut.
Source: La Verdad
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