Sam GreenwoodKevin Kisner waits to play his shot on the second hole during the third round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.CHARLOTTE—What looked like a potentially large lead for Kevin Kisner after Friday's morning wave eventually changed with an exciting finish to the second round—with Hideki Matsuyama's blazing hot back-nine 31 for a second-round 64 and Jason Day finishing with a 67 to be one back. That trio will tee off at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday with all eyes on the next PGA champion coming out of that group.
That being said, there is a ton of golf left to play. And no one in the top 20 is out of this. 2010 Open champ Louis Oosthuizen is just three back and capable of catching fire. He tees off with Francesco Molinari after Molinari's second-round 64, and Chris Stroud, whose consistent 68s have him just two back.
And the third-to-last group could definitely provide some fireworks. Buddies Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas will tee it up with Paul Casey,..

Streeter LeckaCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 07: A leaderboard is seen during a practice round prior to the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 7, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)The PGA Championship, the fourth and final major of the season, takes place this week at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. It's the first time the venue will host a major, but not the first time it hosts a professional golf tournament. Since 2003 it's been home to the Wells Fargo Championship, producing winners like Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler and two-time champion Rory McIlroy.
Some major changes have been made to the golf course for the PGA, including overhauled fairways, removal of thousands of trees and reshaped greens. But the most significant changes came to a few of the holes, with the first and second holes being meshed into one 540-yard par-4, the construction of a new par-3 second hole and the fifth hole being changed from a par-5 ..

Streeter LeckaCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 07: A leaderboard is seen during a practice round prior to the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 7, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)The PGA Championship, the fourth and final major of the season, takes place this week at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. It's the first time the venue will host a major, but not the first time it hosts a professional golf tournament. Since 2003 it's been home to the Wells Fargo Championship, producing winners like Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler and two-time champion Rory McIlroy.
Some major changes have been made to the golf course for the PGA, including overhauled fairways, removal of thousands of trees and reshaped greens. But the most significant changes came to a few of the holes, with the first and second holes being meshed into one 540-yard par-4, the construction of a new par-3 second hole and the fifth hole being changed from a par-5 ..

Streeter LeckaCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 11: Kevin Kisner of the United States plays his shot on the 16th hole during the second round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 11, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)On paper, Quail Hollow looks like a bomber's paradise. It says 7,600 yards on the card, but damp fairways and firm greens mean it plays even longer than that.
Kevin Kisner is proving that precision works just fine, too. Kisner is by no means short off the tee–averaging 291 vs. co-leader Hideki Matsuyama's 302–but it's been his ball-striking that has sparkled on the way to the back-to-back 67s that have put him on top. Kisner is hitting 75 percent of his fairways and 83 percent of his greens, and he's given himself great looks from the correct positions on Quail Hollow's tricky new greens.
You can't will yourself a batch of professional athlete coordination by the weekend, but anybody can use..

Andrew Redington(Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)CHARLOTTE — Ask most fans their favorite follow at a golf tournament, you'll likely get a response of Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson or Jason Day. And that's fine, if you like multi-millionaire, TV-hogging glory boys.
Yeah, yeah, tell me how tough it is on tour. What a struggle it must be to play the world's best courses, be served the finest food, driven around town in luxury cars and have an indentured servant carry your bag.
Personally, I gravitate towards a different soul. For those that have attended an event, you stared right at them without acknowledging their presence. In the sport's hierarchy, only the media ranks lower (which is saying something). And yet, without them, the tournament would collapse. They are on the front line, keeping chaos at arm's length. They are the marshals, and they are golf's eternal flame.
If you have noticed a marshal, it was likely in indignation. It ..

Steven GibbonsLauren Stephenson, left, and Chia Yen Wu bump knuckles after each of them birdied the 26 playoff hole during the quarterfinal round at the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur at San Diego Country Club.The U.S. Women’s Amateur is already a marathon event, with the eventual finalists playing two stroke-play rounds, then five match-play contests before a 36-hole final. If Chinese Taipei’s Chia Yen Wu gets all the way through, she’ll have played even more thanks to her participation in the longest individual match in USGA history.
In her scheduled 18-hole quarterfinal match Friday at San Diego Country Club, Wu defeated Lauren Stephenson in 30 holes, breaking the USGA’s previous record of 28 holes set at the 1930 U.S. Amateur and the 1960 U.S. Junior Amateur.
Not only was the match historic for its length, it had arguable the most “vagaries of match play” moment you’ll ever see. On the 26th hole, Stephenson, an All-American at Alabama who made the cut at the U.S. Women’s Open in Ju..