US PGA Championship 2019: second round – live!

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1.10pm BST

Good morning, Long Island! There’s a fair chance the 18-hole leader Brooks Koepka, an afternoon starter today, hasn’t got out of bed yet. He’ll have his feet up somewhere at least. OK, he might be in the gym. But the point stands: it’s already been a good day for the reigning champion, and he hasn’t swung a club in anger yet. That’s because Danny Lee, who shot 64 yesterday thanks to some sensational approach play, has started his second round badly. Out in the very first group, he hit poor drives at 11 and 12, finding the long stuff and ending up with a pair of bogeys. And suddenly the lead is three.

-7: Koepka
-4: Lee (5*)
-3: Fleetwood

11.46am BST

Here’s a little succour for the folk chasing down Brooks Koepka. The defending champion may have shot 63 yesterday, a near-faultless display only blighted by three missed short putts that could have turned the spectacular into something borderline outlandish. But that doesn’t mean he’s a shoo-in to retain his title quite yet.

Koepka became the ninth player to shoot 63 in the first round of a major. Of the last eight, only two have gone on to win the tournament, Jack Nicklaus at the 1980 US Open, and Ray Floyd at the 1982 PGA. So there is hope for the chasing pack. Although given that Koepka’s last four rounds at the PGA are 63, 66, 66 and 63, hope is a relative concept. Here’s how the leaders stand:

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