The greens at Aronimink Golf Club are keeping frustrations high and scores close to par.
After 36 holes of the 108th PGA Championship, the lead is split between Alex Smalley and Maverick McNealy, both of whom are 4-under after shooting a 1-under 69 and a 1-under 67, respectively.
Despite those showings, Scottie Scheffler remains the betting favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook with a tag of +390, even after slipping two shots off the lead. Scheffler was part of a seven-way tie atop the leaderboard after the opening round and entered Friday as the +170 favorite, but a 1-over 71 dropped him into a tie for ninth.
Scheffler called the pin placements “absurd” and marked them as the “hardest” he’s seen since he’s been playing on TOUR.
With 33 players that sat within two shots of the lead after Round 1, we knew that Friday would shape up to be highly volatile — especially with stronger winds in the morning tee times.
Smalley was also one of seven players tied atop a crowded leaderboard after the first round, and the only one among them to follow it up with another under-par day. Oddsmakers still have him on a short leash, though, pushing his odds only up to 13/1.
| Player | Score | Odds |
| Scottie Scheffler | -2 | +390 |
| Cameron Young | -2 | +950 |
| Ludvig Aberg | -2 | 12/1 |
| Maverick McNealy | -4 | 12/1 |
| Alex Smalley | -4 | 13/1 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | -3 | 15/1 |
McNealy, whose eagle on 16 shot him into a tie for the lead, is now in uncharted territory as the American owns just one top-20 finish in his nine-year pro career — and it came this year at the Masters.
He is listed at 12/1 odds, a price shared with Ludvig Aberg, who is now T9 and opened the tournament with the fifth-shortest odds at 16/1. Aberg shot the second-lowest score of the day behind Chris Gotterup’s 5-under 63 with a 4-under 64.
Aldrich Potgieter led for most of the day before recording bogeys on the last two holes to shoot even par and drop to 3-under overall. The 21-year-old South African became the youngest 36-hole leader at a major since Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters Tournament.
Cameron Young gained ground back on both the oddsboard and leaderboard with a 3-under 67 to move up to T9 from T49 and the next shortest odds behind Scheffler at +950.
Some pace-of-play issues also boiled over as Justin Thomas (T9 and 20/1) and Keegan Bradley (missed the cut) argued with an official after being warned for slow play despite blaming backups on the group ahead.
That controversy came a day after Garrick Higgo (missed the cut) was assessed a two-stroke penalty for arriving late to his tee time.
Sean Treppedi handicaps the NFL, NHL, MLB and college football for the New York Post. He primarily focuses on picks that reflect market value while tracking trends to mitigate risk.
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