Mike Ehrmann(Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)Welcome to the Dew Sweeper's PGA Championship rundown, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here's every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of Aug. 11.
Kisner's creative course for Quail Hollow
It's become bylaw that, when breaking down the layout of Quail Hollow, one must use some variation of “bomber's paradise” in their analysis. With big hitters like Brooks Koepka, Gary Woodland and Grayson Murray gracing the score board, it's an opinion hard to argue. But, as Kevin Kisner countered on Thursday, there's more than one way to tour a golf course.
Kisner, one of the shorter hitters in the game, held a simply strategy: keep it in the fairway. The game plan sounds elementary, but the new wave of thought on tour, evidenced in the strokes-gained movement, states that i..

Sam GreenwoodJason Day plays his shot from the fifth tee during the second round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.Jordan Spieth's pursuit of becoming the youngest golfer to complete the career Grand Slam got off to a sluggish start on Thursday at the 99th PGA Championship with a one-over-par 72. But the good news? The young star is only five shots off the lead held by Thorbjorn Olesen and Kevin Kisner as the second round gets underway Friday morning. Spieth will have to wait until 1:35 p.m. (ET) to get his second crack at the course, so in the meantime, get caught up on all the winners and losers from the first round. And keep it right here all day for the latest news, scores, tweets and highlights from Quail Hollow.
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8:43 PM: This stat really sums up Hideki Matsuyama's torrid pace the past three rounds. I mean, how good is this?
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8:32 PM: Jason Day finished up his second round with four ..

Scott HalleranCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 12: The leaderboard is seen during the third round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 12, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Scott Halleran/PGA of America via Getty Images)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 def..

Scott HalleranCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 11: Jason Day of Australia plays his shot from the fifth tee during the second round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 11, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Scott Halleran/PGA of America via Getty Images)Jordan Spieth's pursuit of becoming the youngest golfer to complete the career Grand Slam got off to a sluggish start on Thursday at the 99th PGA Championship with a one-over-par 72. But the good news? The young star is only five shots off the lead held by Thorbjorn Olesen and Kevin Kisner as the second round gets underway Friday morning. Spieth will have to wait until 1:35 p.m. (ET) to get his second crack at the course, so in the meantime, get caught up on all the winners and losers from the first round. And keep it right here all day for the latest news, scores, tweets and highlights from Quail Hollow.
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4:47 PM: Just when things were getting excited, the horn blows and play is suspended.
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Ross KinnairdCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 11: Rickie Fowler of the United States plays his shot from the 12th tee during the second round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 11, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)Jordan Spieth's pursuit of becoming the youngest golfer to complete the career Grand Slam got off to a sluggish start on Thursday at the 99th PGA Championship with a one-over-par 72. But the good news? The young star is only five shots off the lead held by Thorbjorn Olesen and Kevin Kisner as the second round gets underway Friday morning. Spieth will have to wait until 1:35 p.m. (ET) to get his second crack at the course, so in the meantime, get caught up on all the winners and losers from the first round. And keep it right here all day for the latest news, scores, tweets and highlights from Quail Hollow.
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12:30 PM: Oh dear. Rory McIlroy has now made four bogeys in his last five holes to fall to four ove..

Cliff HawkinsAUBURN, AL – JULY 23: Grayson Murray of the United States putts for birdie on the 18th green during the final round of the Barbasol Championship at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National on July 23, 2017 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)On a day when Quail Hollow played more like a U.S. Open course than a typically-inviting PGA setup, players needed to rely on the putter to save them long-iron approaches that often left them a continent away–or to clean up after a missed green.
Grayson Murray was one of the best on Thursday, taking just 25 putts on his way to a 3-under 68 that left him one behind leader Thorbjorn Oleson. The 23-year-old certainly doesn't look “classic” with his style, using a fat handle and a cross-handed grip, but his fundamentals are right on point–and are ones you can easily copy.
“Whichever way you hold it, you want your forearms to line up with the shaft, which happens when you hold the grip more in your pal..

Streeter Lecka(Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)CHARLOTTE — For all the Spieth-vs-McIlroy storylines at this year's PGA Championship, perhaps the player truly in the crosshairs is Rickie Fowler.
Following a second-half slump last season, the 28-year-old has cobbled together a fine bounce-back campaign, winning the Honda Classic and posting eight top-10s in just 16 events. Better yet, Fowler clearly views Quail Hollow as friendly confines, with a victory and two other top-six finishes at the venue.
However, with Sergio Garcia claiming the green jacket, the weight of the “greatest player to never win a major” label now falls on his shoulders. And with less-than-stellar Sunday showings at Augusta National and Erin Hills, whispers are growing, justifiably or not, on Fowler's mettle.
So when Fowler threw away his two-under start with a triple bogey at the par-4 fifth—his second shot failed to get out of a fairway bunker, and proceeded to make a mess from there—a share of conte..

Sam Greenwood/Getty ImagesKevin Kisner lines up a putt on the 12th hole during the first round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.CHARLOTTE — Kevin Kisner knows he’s not one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour. The 33-year-old from Aiken, S.C., also knows he has one win, six top-10 finishes and only three missed cuts in 22 starts in this his sixth full-time season on tour. Oh, and he’s ninth on the FedEx Cup points list and 25th in the World Ranking.
It’s why if you’re surprised that he’s tied for the lead after 18 holes at the PGA Championship, he certainly isn’t.
The University of Georgia grad long ago came to terms with giving up distance (he ranks 127th on tour with a 288.3 yard average) for accuracy off the tee (15th at 68.2 percent). That was the strategy on Thursday at Quail Hollow Club, where Kisner had one goal in mind: hit the fairway. From there, he could try play the four holes he considered birdie holes (Nos. 7, 8, 14 and 15) and settle for pars on the re..