FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – There was something historically fitting that Brooks Keopka would shatter the 36-hole scoring record at the PGA Championship playing alongside Tiger Woods.
This week’s front-runner, whose 128 total is two shots better than the previous 36-hole scoring mark, beat Woods by 17 shots through two days with the kind of dominating performance that Woods regularly produced in his prime.
“Relative to the field, I was about that long, early in my career,” said Woods, who missed the cut. “When you're able to hit the ball much further than other players and get on the right golf courses where setups like this are penalizing if you are a little bit crooked, it adds up to a big lead, and there's no reason why he can't increase this lead.