New Leader at the PGA Championship, Tiger Makes the Cut

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Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, OK — May 20, 2022

Round two of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club saw low scores climb the leaderboard, familiar names struggle, and big-name players miss the cut. Will Zalatoris is the new leader as he shot a bogey-free round of 65 to go with his first-round score of 66 to sit atop the leaderboard at nine-under on the par 70 layout.

Will Zalatoris is the new leader on day two of the 2022 PGA Championship / Photo Courtesy of CBS Sports

Mito Pereira sits in second place at eight-under-par, the golfer from Chile had a chance to tie for the lead but missed a seven-foot put on the final hole. Justin Thomas with back-to-back rounds of 67 sits in third at six-under.

Bubba Watson, with the best round of the day, shot 63 to move him from two-over-par to five-under and solidly in the mix for the weekend. Yesterday’s leader struggled to a one-over-par score of 71 dropping him into a tie for fifth with Davis Riley and Abraham Ancer at four-under.

Heading into the third round 22 players sit in red numbers, with eight more at even par.

Tiger Makes the Cut

Playing his second tournament of the year since returning from devastating injuries he suffered in a car crash, Tiger Woods worked his way through an up-and-down round. Two birdies on the final six holes brought him one-under-par for the day as he survived the cut by two strokes, tied for 53rd at three-over after two rounds of play.

Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Charl Schwartzel slid in just under the wire at four-over, to make it to the final rounds.

Notable Failures

Other not-so-fortunate included Dustin Johnson, who shot consecutive scores of 73 and missed the cut by two strokes. Master champion Scottie Scheffler ballooned to a five-over score of 75 after his 71 on Thursday and he won’t be playing this weekend. Sergio Garcia, John Daly, Patrick Cantlay, Zach Johnson, and Martin Kaymer are also headed home early.

Leaderboard After Round Two at the 2022 PGA Championship

POSITION PLAYER TO PAR R1 R2 TOTAL
1 Will Zalatoris -9 66* 65 131
2 Mito Pereira -8 68 64* 132
3 Justin Thomas -6 67 67* 134
4 Bubba Watson -5 72* 63 135
T5 Davis Riley -4 68* 68 136
T5 Abraham Ancer -4 67 69* 136
T5 Rory McIlroy -4 65* 71 136
T8 Stewart Cink -3 69 68* 137
T8 Matthew Fitzpatrick -3 68 69* 137
T10 Cameron Young -2 71* 67 138
T10 Sam Burns -2 71* 67 138
T10 Tyrrell Hatton -2 70* 68 138
T10 Gary Woodland -2 70* 68 138
T10 Chris Kirk -2 68 70* 138
T10 Cameron Smith -2 68* 70 138
T10 Matt Kuchar -2 67 71* 138
T17 Bernd Wiesberger -1 72 67* 139
T17 Max Homa -1 70* 69 139
T17 Patrick Reed -1 69* 70 139
T17 Talor Gooch -1 69* 70 139
T17 Joaquin Niemann -1 68 71* 139
T17 Kevin Na -1 68* 71 139
T23 Adri Arnaus E 72* 68 140
T23 Cameron Tringale E 72 68* 140
T23 Seamus Power E 71* 69 140
T23 Ryan Fox E 70 70* 140
T23 Viktor Hovland E 70* 70 140
T23 Beau Hossler E 69 71* 140
T23 Tom Hoge E 66 74* 140
T30 Denny McCarthy 1 73* 68 141
T30 Lanto Griffin 1 72* 69 141
T30 Jordan Spieth 1 72* 69 141
T30 Justin Rose 1 71* 70 141
T30 Rickie Fowler 1 71 70* 141
T30 Tommy Fleetwood 1 71 70* 141
T30 Robert MacIntyre 1 70* 71 141
T30 Aaron Wise 1 69 72* 141
T30 Tony Finau 1 69* 72 141
T30 Xander Schauffele 1 68* 73 141
T30 Lucas Herbert 1 68* 73 141
T41 Brooks Koepka 2 75 67* 142
T41 Jason Kokrak 2 74* 68 142
T41 Jon Rahm 2 73 69* 142
T41 Laurie Canter 2 72* 70 142
T41 Keegan Bradley 2 72* 70 142
T41 Harold Varner III 2 71 71* 142
T41 Kramer Hickok 2 71 71* 142
T41 Francesco Molinari 2 70* 72 142
T41 Shane Lowry 2 70 72* 142
T41 Brendan Steele 2 70 72* 142
T41 Thomas Pieters 2 69 73* 142
T41 Kyoung-Hoon Lee 2 69* 73 142
T53 Tiger Woods 3 74* 69 143
T53 Troy Merritt 3 73 70* 143
T53 Marc Leishman 3 72* 71 143
T53 Sepp Straka 3 71* 72 143
T53 Shaun Norris 3 71 72* 143
T53 Jason Day 3 71 72* 143
T53 Si Woo Kim 3 71 72* 143
T53 Adam Schenk 3 71* 72 143
T53 Kevin Streelman 3 71 72* 143
T53 Justin Harding 3 71 72* 143
T53 Russell Henley 3 70* 73 143
T64 Billy Horschel 4 75 69* 144
T64 Lucas Glover 4 75* 69 144
T64 Sebastian Munoz 4 74 70* 144
T64 Luke List 4 74* 70 144
T64 Rikuya Hoshino 4 74 70* 144
T64 Brian Harman 4 74* 70 144
T64 Louis Oosthuizen 4 73 71* 144
T64 Maverick McNealy 4 73* 71 144
T64 Adam Hadwin 4 73 71* 144
T64 Cameron Davis 4 72 72* 144
T64 Hideki Matsuyama 4 72* 72 144
T64 Keith Mitchell 4 72* 72 144
T64 Collin Morikawa 4 72 72* 144
T64 Charl Schwartzel 4 71 73* 144
T64 Webb Simpson 4 69* 75 144
T64 Patton Kizzire 4 69* 75 144
CUT Ian Poulter 5 76 69* 145
CUT Harry Higgs 5 74 71* 145
CUT Ryan Palmer 5 73* 72 145
CUT Branden Grace 5 73* 72 145
CUT Min Woo Lee 5 73 72* 145
CUT Henrik Stenson 5 72* 73 145
CUT Kevin Kisner 5 72 73* 145
CUT Chan Kim 5 72* 73 145
CUT J.J. Spaun 5 72* 73 145
CUT Lee Westwood 6 75* 71 146
CUT Russell Knox 6 74* 72 146
CUT Christiaan Bezuidenhout 6 73* 73 146
CUT Dustin Johnson 6 73 73* 146
CUT Anirban Lahiri 6 73* 73 146
CUT Jinichiro Kozuma 6 73* 73 146
CUT Scottie Scheffler 6 71 75* 146
CUT Y.E. Yang 6 71 75* 146
CUT Alex Noren 6 70* 76 146
CUT Adam Scott 7 77 70* 147
CUT Sadom Kaewkanjana 7 75* 72 147
CUT Sergio Garcia 7 73 74* 147
CUT Matt Borchert 7 73 74* 147
CUT Rich Beem 7 73* 74 147
CUT Jason Dufner 7 72 75* 147
CUT Dean Burmester 7 69 78* 147
CUT Scott Stallings 8 78* 70 148
CUT Bio Kim 8 76 72* 148
CUT Hudson Swafford 8 74 74* 148
CUT John Daly 8 72 76* 148
CUT Yuki Inamori 8 72 76* 148
CUT Mackenzie Hughes 9 77* 72 149
CUT Ryan Brehm 9 76 73* 149
CUT Corey Conners 9 76* 73 149
CUT Daniel Van Tonder 9 74* 75 149
CUT Sam Horsfield 9 74 75* 149
CUT Joel Dahmen 9 73 76* 149
CUT Tyler Collet 10 79* 71 150
CUT Oliver Bekker 10 78* 72 150
CUT Cameron Champ 10 74* 76 150
CUT Garrick Higgo 10 74 76* 150
CUT Richard Bland 10 74 76* 150
CUT Matt Jones 10 73 77* 150
CUT Jesse Mueller 10 72* 78 150
CUT Ryosuke Kinoshita 11 79* 72 151
CUT Michael Block 11 78* 73 151
CUT Chad Ramey 11 77* 74 151
CUT Patrick Cantlay 11 76 75* 151
CUT Erik van Rooyen 11 75 76* 151
CUT Ryan Vermeer 11 75* 76 151
CUT Zach Johnson 11 74* 77 151
CUT Alex Beach 11 73 78* 151
CUT Alex Cejka 11 72* 79 151
CUT Padraig Harrington 12 77 75* 152
CUT Kyle Mendoza 12 75 77* 152
CUT Jhonattan Vegas 12 73 79* 152
CUT Brandon Bingaman 13 78* 75 153
CUT Nic Ishee 13 78 75* 153
CUT Dylan Newman 13 78* 75 153
CUT Nicolai Hojgaard 13 78 75* 153
CUT Takumi Kanaya 13 77 76* 153
CUT Matthew Wolff 13 76* 77 153
CUT Martin Kaymer 13 76* 77 153
CUT Shaun Micheel 13 76 77* 153
CUT Daniel Berger 13 73 80* 153
CUT Carlos Ortiz 14 79 75* 154
CUT Joohyung Kim 14 78* 76 154
CUT Pablo Larrazabal 14 77 77* 154
CUT Wyatt Worthington II 14 77 77* 154
CUT Paul Dickinson 15 78* 77 155
CUT Colin Inglis 15 78* 77 155
CUT Casey Pyne 17 79 78* 157
CUT Jared Jones 17 79 78* 157
CUT Shawn Warren 17 78 79* 157
CUT Tim Feenstra 18 77* 81 158
CUT Austin Hurt 19 78* 81 159
CUT Sean McCarty 21 82 79* 161
CUT Zac Oakley 23 81 82* 163

*Golfer Started Play on the Back Nine

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