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2020 PGA Championship leaderboard breakdown: Coverage, scores, highlights from Round 2 at TPC Harding Park - CBSSports.com

2020 PGA Championship leaderboard breakdown: Coverage, scores, highlights from Round 2 at TPC Harding Park - CBSSports.com

2020 PGA Championship leaderboard breakdown: Coverage, scores, highlights from Round 2 at TPC Harding Park - CBSSports.com
Aug 08, 2020 4 mins, 9 secs

The second round of the 2020 PGA Championship on Friday was a rollercoaster that left us with a major shakeup at the top of the leaderboard.

1 spot in the standings with a fantastic 5-under 65, while Tommy Fleetwood jumped 46 spots on the leaderboard to T2 after posting a week-best 6-under 64.

Tied with Fleetwood in second is Brooks Koepka, Daniel Berger, Justin Rose, Jason Day and Mike Lorenzo-Vera, all of whom sit at 6 under and two strokes off Li's lead.

Haotong Li (-8): With a bogey-free round of 65 on Friday, Li rose 11 spots in the standings and took over as the leader entering the weekend.

"Yeah, I didn't even think I could play like this this week, especially, like you said, got no confidence," he said post-round Friday.

Perhaps that's why he spent at least four hours practicing after his round.

Brooks Koepka, Tommy Fleetwood, Daniel Berger, Justin Rose, Jason Day and MIke Lorenzo-Vera (-6): There was a moment Friday when a trainer plopped Koepka flat on his back in the middle of the rough and worked his left leg as Koepka, who has dealt with a lingering knee injury, showed some discomfort.

Koepka fired a 2-under 68 entering the weekend and birdied his final hole to ensure he'll do so with a pep in his step.

He's 36 holes away from potentially becoming the first to three-peat at the same major since 1956 and first to do so at the PGA Championship in nearly a century.

Fleetwood's 6-under 64 tied for the best round of the week with Cameron Champ -- both in Round 2 -- as Fleetwood jumped 46 spots on the leaderboard.

He drove it well Friday as opposed to Thursday -- where he hit just 50% of his fairways off the tee.

Fleetwood also cleaned up nicely on the greens.

"I think I drove it really well," said Fleetwood.

Cameron Champ, Paul Casey and Brendon Todd (-5): Following a 1-over 71, Champ tied Fleetwood with the best round of the week Friday.

Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele and three others (-4): DJ turned in a 4-under 31 on the back nine to polish off a Round 2 of 66, jumping more than 20 spots on the leaderboard into the top 10.

He wasn't quite as long off the tees as he was Thursday, but he commanded control of his irons and found something with the putter, draining several long ones to work his way into weekend contention.

Schauffele was steady with two birdies and two bogeys for an even-par 70, but after a strong effort in Round 1, he missed an opportunity to push up the leaderboard.

Tony Finau: (-3): For a second straight day, Finau boomed it off the tee but struggled to control it.

And yet for a second straight day, he finds himself comfortably in the mix with an even-par round of 70 keeping him in the hunt.

He was better around the greens Friday than he was Thursday and showed some promising improvement that could bode well for him going into moving day. .

Bryson DeChambeau: (-2): DeChambeau summed up his round -- and what he needs to improve on -- like this: "I've got to do something special this weekend.

On the 503-yard par 4, he got to the green in four and subsequently three-putted, unraveling the progress on his round and dropping him to even-par on the day.

He birdied 16 and finished the round at 1 under, but swallowing a triple-bogey was a momentum-stopper for him that may keep him from contention if he doesn't have a huge moving day2

Tiger Woods (E): Tiger makes the weekend cut -- barely -- after squeaking out a shaky 2-over par Friday round that had him hovering dangerously close to the cut line2

Tiger's putter saved him from disaster on Thursday but he lost strokes to the field with it in Round 2, narrowly missing several that could have reversed his fortunes and put him into the red.

The only players Koepka has trailed after his last 9 PGA Championship rounds.

The Open and the PGA should be played in the same week like they were 75 years ago.

Tiger Woods posted a 2-over 72 in the second round of the @PGAChampionship and is even par through 36 holes.

Tigers Woods will head into the weekend of the PGA Championship at even par.

A MAJOR STAT--> 18 of Brooks Koepka's last 22 major championship rounds have been in the 60s

A MAJOR STAT--> 18 of Brooks Koepka's last 22 major championship rounds have been in the 60s

Feels like Rinaldi can ask Koepka about his leg *maybe* one more time before there's violence

"As I've played more and more major championships, I realize you don't win the tournament on Thursday and Friday but you can lose it." - @DanielBerger59 #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/JVjSnldpHM

Brooks Koepka is T3 at -6 and is in position to strike heading into the weekend

Daniel Berger cards a second round 67 and sits T-3.#PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/rVEkShBk1c

“I can't really let it rip out here this week

Jason Day says he saw Li practicing when he was walking to start his round

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