The second round of the PGA Championship featured difficult pin locations, strong winds and plenty of complaints about the pace of play.
Two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas and his playing partners, Cameron Young and Keegan Bradley were put on the clock during their second rounds, something Thomas wasn’t exactly thrilled with.
“We just didn’t really agree with it,” he started. ” … The hard part to me with the whole pace of play thing is that you, there’s so much that goes into golf and there’s so much that goes into hole to hole in terms of, are you hitting it close, are you able to tap it in, or you have to mark it, stuff like that, to where, are you holding the group up or are you not, to where it’s very hard to make that call.
“And we just didn’t agree with it, to be honest. But we got taken off, and a hole later we were caught up. So it kind of goes to our point of why we didn’t think we should of, but it is what it is. It’s a part of it.”
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While the trio was put on the clock, Thomas and Young both put together solid rounds to sit near the top of the leaderboard heading into the weekend.
Thomas carded his second straight one-under, 69 to move to two-under for the tournament and four shots off the lead. Young, meanwhile, bounced back from a one-over, 71 on Thursday to shoot a three-under, 67 on Friday to move to two-under for the day and like Thomas he sits four shots off the lead.
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