Weather: Partly sunny. High of 89. Wind SW 6-12 mph.

Cut: 74 professionals at 1-over 143 from a field of 156 professionals

Second-Round Leaderboard

Jhonattan Vegas (1^st/-8)

• With rounds of 64-70, has consecutive under-par rounds for first time in 17 major championship starts (46 rounds)
• Seventh second-round lead/co-lead on the PGA TOUR; 1-for-6 to date (2011 American Express); most recent 36-hole lead came at the 2019 John Deere Classic (T37)
• Becomes the 16^th player to hold the outright lead after the first and second rounds of a PGA Championship, with six of those going on to win (most recent: Xander Schauffele/2024)
• The PGA Championship has had five wire-to-wire winners (outright lead after each round), with Brooks Koepka (2019) the most recent to do so
• Is the first Venezuelan to hold the lead/co-lead in a major championship
• Best finish in 16 prior major championship starts: T22 (2016 PGA Championship)
• Four TOUR wins (318 starts): 2011 American Express, 2016 RBC Canadian Open, 2017 RBC Canadian Open, 2024 3M Open
• Has one top-10 finish in 11 starts on TOUR this season: 4^th (The Sentry)
• In his most recent start, opened THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson with a season-best 8-under 63 and followed with rounds of 69-67-69 to finish T13
• International players have won 14 of the first 22 events this season 

Miscellaneous Notes

• Matthieu Pavon (T2/-6) posts a 6-under 65, equaling the lowest score in a major championship by a player representing France (Michael Lorenzo-Vera/R2/2018 PGA Championship)  See story:  http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2025/05/pavon/ 
• Matt Fitzpatrick (T2/-6) sits inside the top 10 after 36 holes in a major championship for just the second time (T8/2022 PGA Championship/finished T5)
• Si Woo Kim (T2/-6) aces the par-3 sixth hole from 252 yards, the longest ace in major championship history (previous: 245 yards by Gil Morgan at the 1978 PGA Championship/No. 8/R4); his six aces are the most on TOUR since 2016, with two coming at major championships (2024 Open Championship/R3/No. 17); he becomes the first player with a hole-in-one at a major championship in back-to-back seasons since Scott Hoch (2001 PGA Championship, 2002 U.S. Open)
• Max Homa (T5/-5) equals the round of the week (Jhonattan Vegas/R1, Si Woo Kim/R2) with a 64, his best round in 23 major championship starts; previous-best score was a first-round 67 at the 2024 Masters Tournament, leading to his best finish in a major (T3); opened round with a 6-under 30 (back nine), his best nine-hole score in a major championship and equaling his best nine-hole score on TOUR (set eight times previously); won the 2019 Truist Championship at Quail Hollow Club, one of six TOUR wins
• World No. 1 and reigning FedExCup champion Scottie Scheffler (T5/-5) trails by three as he makes the cut for the 54^th straight time, second only to playing partner and defending champion Xander Schauffele (T62/+1), who makes the cut for the 64^th straight time (the longest active streak on TOUR).
• 2025 Masters Tournament champion Rory McIlroy (T62/+1), who played in the same group as Scheffler and Schauffele, makes the cut on the number and trails by nine in bid to become the first player to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year since Jack Nicklaus (1975); also trailed by nine and made the cut on the number through two rounds en route to his first PGA TOUR victory at the 2010 Truist Championship (at Quail Hollow Club).
• Jordan Spieth (+2) misses the cut in bid to become the seventh player to win the Career Grand Slam.
• 2017 (at Quail Hollow Club) and 2022 PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas (+3) misses the cut for the second time (2021) in 10 starts at the event.
• Patton Kizzire WD during the round due to injury.
• And Shane Lowry showed his disappointment after his superb tee-shot down the 8th hole ended buried in the fairway.  Many believing the organising body should have been playing relief from ‘mud balls. Lowry bogeyed the hole and walked off flipping ‘the bird’ at the hole.  He posted a 73 to miss the cut by a shot.