Article 6BT45 US PGA Championship 2023: second round – as it happened

US PGA Championship 2023: second round – as it happened

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Scott Murray
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Scottie Scheffler, Corey Conners and Viktor Hovland share the 36-hole lead while Brooks Koepka's 66 was the best of day two

Hayden Buckley has only played in one major championship before. The 27-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee did pretty well in it: a tie for 14th at last year's US Open. He's had a couple of fine recent finishes too: a top-ten finish at the Texas Open and a tie for fifth at the RBC Heritage. He appears to be taking that good form into the PGA. A 69 yesterday, and after a slow start today with bogeys at 11 and 12, he's responded with three straight birdies between 13 and 15. He's -2 overall.

The Michael Block party continues. One of the PGA Team of 20' club professionals in the field this week, the 46-year-old is taming the Oak Hill tiger right now. He calmly bangs his tee shot at the short par-four 14th down the middle, chips to eight feet, and tidies up for his third birdie of the morning. He's a shot off the lead! Meanwhile opening par for DJ, whose 12-foot birdie putt on 10 lips out on the right. So close to a share.

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