It’s Moving Day at Aronimink Golf Club outside of Philadelphia, and Scottie Scheffler has some work to do.
Scheffler posted a 1-over on Friday and ended up sitting two shots off the lead despite entering the second round with a share of it. But even as the weather calmed down on Friday, nobody ran away with it.
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Alex Smalley and Maverick McNealy will enter the third round with a share of the lead at 4-under, and there are six players at 3-under, just a shot off the lead. The tournament is truly still wide open. It all just depends on who can survive the course, which has proven to be much more difficult than many expected.
Smalley and McNealy will tee off in the final group on Saturday at 2:40 p.m. ET. Their lead could very easily be gone by the time they hit the first tee.
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The PGA Championship is being broadcast this week on ESPN and CBS.
Saturday, May 16
ESPN: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET
CBS: 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET
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Live10 updatesSat, May 16, 2026 at 6:28 AM PDT
Jay Hart
Updated as of 9:20 a.m. ET
POSITION
PLAYER
SCORE
THRU
T1
Maverick McNealy
-4
2:40
T1
Alex Smalley
-4
2:40
T3
Hideki Matsuyama
-3
2:30
T3
Chris Gotterup
-3
2:30
T3
Aldrich Potgieter
-3
2:20
T3
Stephan Jaeger
-3
2:20
T3
Max Greyserman
-3
2:10
T3
Min Woo Lee
-3
2:10
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 6:45 AM PDT
Jay Busbee
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM PDT
Jay Hart
It’s a wonder this doesn’t happen more often, even with the precision of a pro.
During Friday’s Round 2 of the PGA Championship, Wyndham Clark launched a drive into the left rough of what appears to be the 11th hole.
Now, if you’ve ever been to a professional golf tournament, you know when a ball enters a fan area, said fans rarely want to move an inch. Instead, they stand their ground to get as close-up a view as they can of the next shot … which is how this happened:
Nope, not his fault.
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 6:15 AM PDT
Jay Busbee
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Aronimink pushed around the field on Thursday at the PGA Championship, and on Friday morning, knocked around everyone a second time for good measure. But on Day 2 of the season’s second major, the course had a co-conspirator: the PGA of America, which placed a diabolical set of pins that had the game’s best grousing
“This is the hardest set of pin locations that I’ve seen since I’ve been on Tour, and that includes U.S. Opens,” world No. 1 and defending PGA champion Scottie Scheffler said after a 1-over round that left him at -2, two strokes off the clubhouse lead. “It’s difficult to get the ball close to the hole. It’s difficult to hole putts, especially when you have big slopes and wind.”
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM PDT
Ryan Young
Michael Block’s week at Aronimink is over.
But the PGA pro, who has turned himself into a bit of a fan favorite in recent years, is not done competing just yet.
“I have to be honest with you. No chance [I’m done with the PGA Championship],” Block said, via SiriusXM PGA Tour’s Jason Sobel. “I will definitely qualify for one more, if not five more. … I definitely have some more in me, for sure. There’s no doubt about that.”
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 5:45 AM PDT
Jay Busbee
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Once again, the game’s best challenged Aronimink at the PGA Championship, and once again, the course pummeled the field. But this time, Aronimink had a co-conspirator: the PGA itself, which placed Friday’s pins in what Scottie Scheffler called “absurd” locations.
Need proof? Here’s proof. The lead after Thursday was 3-under. The lead after Scheffler left the course about halfway through Friday’s round? Still at -3, thanks to a wicked combination of wind, undulating greens and those diabolical pin placements.
By the afternoon, though, the wind had rolled out, and the low scores rolled in. Alex Smalley set the pace at -4 early in the afternoon, and then Maverick McNealy matched him in the late wave. Both briefly held two-stroke leads on the field, and both almost immediately gave those leads back.
Scottie Scheffler is only two shots off the lead at the midway point. (Carl Recine/Getty Images)
(Carl Recine via Getty Images)Sat, May 16, 2026 at 5:30 AM PDT
Ryan Young
Here’s a look at the live betting odds entering play on Saturday (via BetMGM):
Scottie Scheffler (+375)
Cameron Young (+900)
Ludvig Åberg (+1200)
Maverick McNealy (+1200)
Alex Smalley (+1400)
Chris Gotterup (+1400)
Hideki Matsuyama (+1400)
Min Woo Lee (+1400)
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 5:15 AM PDT
Ryan Young
All times ET
11 a.m.: Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy
1:30 p.m.: Harris English, Si Woo Kim
1:40 p.m.: Scottie Scheffler, David Puig
2 p.m.: Cameron Young, Justin Thomas
2:10 p.m.: Min Woo Lee, Max Greyserman
2:20 p.m.: Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaeger
2:30 p.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Chris Gotterup
2:40 p.m.: Alex Smalley, Maverick McNealy
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM PDT
Ryan Young
Here’s where things stand entering play on Saturday at the PGA Championship.
Leaderboard
T1. Alex Smalley (-4)
Maverick McNealy
T3. Hideki Matsuyama (-3)
Chris Gotterup
Aldrich Potgieter
Stephan Jaeger
Min Woo Lee
Max Greyserman
T9. Cameron Young (-2)
Justin Thomas
Scottie Scheffler
David Puig
Harris English
Si Woo Kim
Ludvig Åberg
Sat, May 16, 2026 at 4:45 AM PDT
Ryan Young
It’s Moving Day at Aronimink. Are you ready?