Rory McIlroy rallies with bogey-free Friday at PGA Championship

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.— Rory McIlroy saved his PGA Championship on Friday, rebounding with a second-round 3-under-par 67 to stand at 1-over for the tournament and just five shots out of the lead. His opening-round 74 on Thursday looked like it might lead McIlroy to the outside of the cutline and home for the weekend. But he rallied with better, more accurate driving, which failed him in round one.

He had six bogeys Thursday, five of those coming on his final six holes.He went bogey-free Friday. “It was a day just to get back into the tournament and I felt like that’s what I was able to do,’’ McIlroy said.

“I just needed to try to find a feeling with the driver.A lot of the bogeys I made were because of wayward drives.

I felt like I found the feel [Thursday[ night and drove it better [Friday].’’ Bryson DeChambeau’s nightmarish PGA Championship got no better Friday as he flamed out and missed the cut. DeChambeau followed his opening-round 76 with a 71 to finish 7-over to miss the cut by three shots. This was the second consecutive major championship at which DeChambeau failed to make the weekend and the fourth time in his last seven major starts he’s missed the cut. Six club pros finished the two rounds with a lower score than DeChambeau. Garrick Higgo, who was one of the stories of the first round for being late to his 7:18 a.m.tee time and penalized two strokes, missed the cut by — you guessed it — two shots after shooting a 6-over 76 on Friday to finish 5-over. Higgo was credited with a 1-under 69 on Thursday even though he shot 3-under on his ball.

In the end, the penalty cost him making the cut. David Puig, a LIV Golf player who was granted a special invite into the field, is taking advantage of the opportunity, shooting 3-under 67 Friday to get to 2-under for the tournament, tied for ninth. It’s the best position the 24-year-old Spaniard has been in at a major in his career. “I get up every day for weeks and days like tod...