At the end of the second round of the PGA Championship, Graham DeLaet is the lone Canadian standing.
DeLaet shot 73 in the second round but remains tied in 23rd place at +1. While his second round wasn’t ideal, he is comfortable and far from the projected cutline. Fellow Canadians Mackenzie Hughes and Adam Hadwin don’t have that same luxury. Both Hughes and Hadwin missed Friday’s cut with scores of +8 and +13 respectively.
Hughes was doing whatever he could to recover from Thursday's debacle. After recording six bogeys in the first round, Hughes limited the damage with one in the second round. He did enough to record similar numbers to DeLaet but unfortunately, Day 1's disaster will likely result in Hughes' first missed cut in the last seven tournaments. While Hadwin continues his inconsistent streak of missed cuts and top finishes. Hughes finished in a tie for 97th place.
Hadwin finished the tournament in 131st place — thirteen strokes behind the leader — and recording seven bogeys wont help his claim to move up the leaderboard.
DeLaet had a disastrous start to his round on Friday. Playing through pain as a result of back tightness, DeLaet bogeyed on three of his first six holes before ending the final three holes at par.
Heading in, that’s where the Weyburn, Saskatchewan native rallied around. DeLaet used a strong performance that included three birdies to shoot a 34 in the back nine. He would end the round in a tie for 25th on the tournament’s leaderboard.
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“In all honesty, I had no idea where the ball was going,” DeLaet told TSN. “It was hard to get a tee shot in that fairway and when I did I kind of felt that I was sort of lucky. It was a tough day.”