PGA Championship hopeful withdraws midway through second round

The first WD of this year’s PGA Championship has come midway through the second round at Quail Hollow.

The American player Patton Kizzire has walked in with injury after a nightmare start to his second round in Charlotte.

Kizzire, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour, shot a three-over par 74 in Thursday’s first round, meaning he had work to do to make only the fifth cut in his major career.

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But Kizzire’s Friday couldn’t have gone much worse.

He made four bogeys and a double bogey in his first six holes and was sliding towards a MC in his first PGA Championship since 2022.

But Kizirre then shook hands with his playing partners Matt McCarty and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen after making par-5 tenth and exiting with an unknown injury.

Kizzire, you may remember, hit the headlines earlier this year for a dramatic tantrum at the Valspar Championship.

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The world No.141 lost his cool in extraordinary fashion at the Copperhead course in March, dropkicking his putter into the air as he resembled an NFL punter after a missing a five-footer for par.

He withdrew from that tournament, too, and in truth, has had a dismal start to 2025.

After starting the year with a T40 at The Sentry in Hawaii, Kizzire missed his next six cuts and his best result of the season came with a T20 finish at last week’s Myrtle Beach Classic.

Ben Parsons is the Senior Writer at bunkered and is the man to come to for all of the latest news, across both the professional and amateur games. Formerly of The Mirror and Press Association, he is a member at Halifax Golf Club and is a long-suffering fan of both Manchester United and the Wales rugby team.