Si Woo Kim hit a historic ace, Rory McIlroy diced with the cut line and Jhonattan Vegas found help from an unlikely source as he led the 2025 US PGA Championship.
Here is everything you need to know from Friday at Quail Hollow.
Kim makes history again
Last year's Open Championship saw Si Woo Kim make a hole in one at Royal Troon's 238-yard 17th hole, the longest ever recorded in the event. Remarkably he repeated the feat on Friday, holing a 252-yard five wood off the sixth tee - his 15th hole - for the longest recorded ace in Major Championship history. He also joined Ernie Els as only the second player with aces to his name at both the Open and the US PGA. Kim celebrated by sprinting 30 yards down the fairway and hurling his club in the air, and later joked: "I almost ran to the hole then I realised, I'm the first (of the group) to tee off so I better turn back!"
Pavon and Fitzpatrick give chase
Kim was one of three players sharing second place at the halfway stage, alongside Matthieu Pavon and Matt Fitzpatrick as Jhonattan Vegas remained two strokes clear at the summit on eight under par. Pavon's bogey-free 65 equalled the best ever Major Championship round by a French player while Fitzpatrick, the 2022 U.S. Open Champion, carded a second successive 68. World Number One Scottie Scheffler and fellow American Max Homa shared fifth place on five under.
Vegas hits the jackpot
Leader Vegas should consider a trip to the gambling mecca that shares his surname, if his tee shot at the par-three 17th is anything to go by. Vegas turned away in disgust as his ball headed in the vicinity of a bunker short and right of the green - but while his gaze was averted, a handy deflection off a rake saw it kick into the centre of the dancefloor. After a bewildered reaction, he threw an affectionate glance at the implement as he arrived to two-putt for a par. "It was a shock, for sure," he said after his round. "Sometimes you get a sprinkler head that goes out of bounds or sometimes you hit a rake that goes on the green. It's just part of the game, and you've just got to enjoy it all."
Debut delight
Four DP World Tour members who are playing in their first US PGA Championships made the cut to extend their debut experience into the weekend. Congratulations to Englishmen Marco Penge, the best placed of the quartet on two under par, and Harry Hall, Northern Ireland's Tom McKibbin who was alongside Hall on one under, and Australian Elvis Smylie who finished right on the line at one over - alongside a higher-profile name...
Rory takes it to the wire
Masters champion Rory McIlroy ensured another Major Championship weekend, albeit in typically nerve-jangling fashion as he too made the cut right on the one-over-par line. After an opening 74, the World Number Two was four under for his first ten holes on Friday only to then drop two shots in succession. A brilliant par save at the 13th, after his tee shot rolled off from the centre of the green to leave him short-sided behind a bunker, and birdies at the 14th and 15th seemed to have given him some breathing room but he bogeyed the 17th and then his 18th tee-shot bounced off a hospitality building and narrowly over the creek alongside the fairway. A calm shot out from an awkward stance helped him to a closing bogey and a round of 69, the most he could afford.
