PGA Championship 2022 LIVE: Leaderboard and newest updates as Mito Pereira leads and Rory McIlroy falls away

A birdie for Bubba Watson! His three on the par-4 seventh strikes him into second place, earlier than he saves par properly on the par-3 eighth.

Zalatoris drops one other on the greens with one other nervy putt, whereas Pereira is holding his nerve as he stays on -10 from seven or eight toes.

Two successive holes with a dropped shot turns into three as McIlroy three-putts on the par-3 eighth. Robust – and he’s again right down to even par total.

To present a sign of how laborious the course is enjoying on this wind, already at the moment we’ve had gamers like Jon Rahm shoot a 76. Robert McIntyre has simply carded an 80.

McIlroy discovered himself in the same place to Zalatoris up forward on the seventh. He missed the inexperienced to the precise, along with his ball touchdown down the financial institution and subsequent to a drain. His chip throughout the inexperienced landed brief and left him seven or eight toes for par. It doesn’t drop. McIlroy now at -1.

The in a single day chief’s struggles proceed. After leaving himself with work to do with a chip throughout the inexperienced that stopped brief, Zalatoris misses one other to drop to -7. Very uncharacteristic from him, however it exhibits the strain. Pereira, in the meantime, responds as he holes a par putt from six toes. He’s now, all of a sudden, 4 photographs clear.

Tiger Woods recorded his worst ever rating within the US PGA Championship as a profitable battle to make the minimize took a heavy toll at Southern Hills.

“I simply didn’t play properly,” Woods stated. “I didn’t hit the ball very properly and bought off to not the beginning I wanted to get off to. I believed I hit a great tee shot down two and ended up within the water, and simply by no means actually bought any sort of momentum on my aspect.”

Requested if he would play Sunday’s last spherical, Woods added: “Effectively, I’m sore. I do know that’s for a reality. We’ll do some work and see the way it goes.”

A catastrophe for McIlroy on the par-three sixth, after discovering the creek along with his tee shot. He’s capable of scramble up and down for a 5 however that’s a knife within the coronary heart to his hopes of difficult on the high of the leaderboard. It leaves him eight photographs again. That gap was the place Woods’ struggles started with a triple bogey earlier.

Pereira extends his lead with a cool birdie putt from eight toes on the fifth! Zalatoris stays the place he’s after seeing an extended one downhill keep excessive.

Zalatoris drops one other after a three-put on the par-5 fourth, that means that Pereira finds himself with a two-shot lead early within the spherical.

Fitzpatrick grabs a second consecutive birdie on the par-3 sixth to get him again to the place he began after his opening two bogeys.

It’s actually a troublesome day for scoring on the market. Justin Thomas and Bubba Watson each dropped an early shot, earlier than making birdies to get again to the place they began.

Matthew Fitzpatrick began his spherical with consecutive bogeys however has simply responded by holing out for birdie from the bunker on the fourth.

And Pereira swaps locations along with his enjoying associate! He drains a great distance on the second to maneuver to -9.

It places the strain on Zalatoris, however he makes his par from 12 toes. Nonetheless, it’s two-shot swing within the opening two holes.