ST. LOUIS – Sirens blared across Bellerive Country Club on Friday afternoon, putting the second round of the PGA Championship on hold and ending a day of low scoring rarely seen in a major tournament.
Gary Woodland set the 36-hole record – for now, anyway – after a round in which his driver wasn’t as reliable, he didn’t see many putts drop and he didn’t hit the ball quite as well as the day before.
“I can live with that,” he said after a 4-under-par 66 that put him at 10-under 130, breaking by one the PGA Championship record and tying the 36-hole score for all majors.
All it was good for was a single-stroke lead over Kevin Kisner (64). Two-time reigning U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka (63) was third at 8 under, with top-ranked Dustin Johnson (66), Thomas Pieters (66) and Charl Schwartzel (63) in fourth at 7 under with Rickie Fowler, who had eight holes to play.
There were two rounds of 63, one 64 and six 65s, and that was only half of the 156-man field.