St Louis (the US): Shubhankar Sharma was one-under through seven holes in the second round of the PGA Championships when play was stopped because of inclement weather here Friday. He was two-under for the tournament at that stage and looked set to make his second straight cut in a Major. Earlier, the 22-year-old Indian had made the cut at the Open Championships last month.
However, Anirban Lahiri had another miserable day on the greens as he missed a bunch of makeable putts and went through a horrible streak of four bogeys in five holes on the back nine to card three-over 73.
I played terribly today (Friday). Somehow my putting deserted and I couldn’t get a grip on the iron I used
Anirban Lahiri
Put alongside his even Par 70 in the first round, his three-over 143 may not be enough to see him through to the final two rounds at the 100th PGA Championship at the Bellerive Country Club course.
Gary Woodland shot four-under 66 to get to 10-under, while in-form Kevin Kisner had a 64 to get to nine-under. Woodland hit nine of 14 fairways and, for the second straight day, 15 greens in regulation.
Tiger Woods birdied three of his first five holes and was at three-under through his first seven holes. Woods is now three-under for the tournament. He also looks set to make the cut.
Sharma missed three putts between 14-16 feet and one under seven feet, but got all pars while he birdied the seventh hole. Lahiri missed no less than four putts inside 10 feet. Still he was one-under when he came off the 11th green. But from there he bogeyed four times between 12th and 16th and that’s where he lost the chance to stay on for the weekend.
Two-time US Open champion Brooks Koepka charged into contention with a seven-under 63 that tied the record for low round at the PGA.