How to watch PGA Championship, Round 2: Live scores, tee times, TV times

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RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico – Zac Blair barely slept Wednesday night. But he made his tee time in Puerto Rico – as the last guy in the field – shot 1 under, and then, it was time for a nap. “I told myself I’d rather be here and not get in and be at home and get in,� said Blair Friday in Puerto Rico after a 1-over-par 73. Blair is even par through two rounds and will play the weekend. It’s his first PGA TOUR event of the year. Blair was far down the alternate list when the week got started, but after a myriad of withdraws, he found himself as first alternate by mid-day Wednesday. He decided to head to the airport and test his luck and got the call from PGA TOUR officials that he was in the field at 2:30 p.m. ET. He had a flight that was supposed to get into Puerto Rico at 2 a.m. local time, but that flight got cancelled. He was scrambling, he said, to just get to the East Coast somehow, but all flights from Utah – where Blair lives – were grounded for nearly three hours. Blair finally made it to New York and left on a flight at 1 a.m. ET that landed Wednesday morning in San Juan at around 5:30 a.m. local time. He arrived at the course at 6:30 a.m. for a 7 a.m. tee-time. “I hit three balls and two putts and went to the tee and hit it as good as I’ve hit it in a long time,� said Blair with a laugh. “I thought, ‘Man, I should come in on Wednesday all the time.’� Blair said he struggled with the putter Friday, but he’s happy to see the weekend. He admitted he’s got unlucky with the draws on the Web.com Tour so far this year but chalked that up to just the nature of professional golf. He finished T8 at the opening Web.com Tour event of 2019 but has missed the last four cuts in a row. “It’s okay. It’s new down (on the Web.com Tour) for me. I’ve never played out there a full year so I’m seeing some new courses,� said Blair. “But I’m excited to be here and hopefully rip it up on the weekend.� Blair already played five weeks in a row on the Web.com Tour to start the year, but he wasn’t going to pass up an opportunity to play on the PGA TOUR this week. “It’s the PGA TOUR,� he said. “Having a good week changes a life.�

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Brooks Koepka is looking to wrap up the top spot in the Wyndham Rewards a week early with a win at the World Golf Championships – FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Koepka overtook Matt Kuchar as the FedExCup and Wyndham Rewards leader with his tie for fourth at The Open Championship last week, his fourth top-four finish in major championships this season. The current PGA TOUR Player of the Year won the PGA Championship and was runner-up at both the Masters and U.S. Open. He also won THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES this season. As such, he is now on top, but just 37 points ahead of Kuchar, who had led since he was runner up to Kevin Kisner at the World Golf Championships – Dell Technologies Match Play in late March. With 550 points on offer to the winner this week at TPC Southwind, Koepka could theoretically wrap up the top spot with a victory along a poor outing from Kuchar, among others. There are 500 points on offer to the winner of the Wyndham Championship next week, so any lead over that mark after play in Memphis would secure the title and the $2 million Wyndham Rewards Top 10 bonus. Of course, Rory McIlroy (142 behind), Xander Schauffele (507 behind), Gary Woodland (548 behind) and others can still have a significant say in the outcome. “(Winning the FedExCup is) the goal every time you step out and play an event out here on the PGA TOUR. You’re trying to build up FedExCup points, you’re trying to build as big as a lead as possible,â€� Koepka said. “That’s why we play, to make it to Atlanta. I’m sure everybody that tees it up on the PGA TOUR, that’s their goal, to make it to Atlanta and to have a chance to win. “So to be able to put myself in the spot that I have, it’s been an enjoyable ride to say the least and I think (winning the FedExCup) would just cap off a two-year stretch of great golf.â€� Koepka is not yet slated to play the Wyndham Championship, but has until Friday afternoon to commit. He did not rule out signing up, but said his early play in Memphis would dictate that. “If I do what I’m supposed to do this week and win, then everything takes care of itself. But yeah, there’s a lot of scenarios that can happen,â€� he confirmed. “I don’t know the actual breakdown of them, but there is a possibility that next week I could be out there and playing for a lot. So we’ll see where everything kind of falls.â€� Koepka is also in a battle with Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and a few others for a $1 million bonus in the Aon Risk Reward Challenge.

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