St. Louis (AFP) - Tiger Woods and Rickie Fowler struggled to make a morning charge Saturday in the final holes of the rain-hit second round of the 100th PGA Championship.
Woods was at 3-under overall and for the round after 13 holes with Fowler the highest player on the leaderboard yet to finish at 7-under but 2-under on the round.
Neither player had gained on leader Gary Woodland, who stood on 10-under par 130 after 36 holes.
Woods, a 14-time major winner in the eighth month of his comeback from spinal fusion surgery, opened Saturday with a birdie at the par-5 eighth.
But he then sandwiched two five-foot par putt misses for bogeys at the 10th and 12th holes around a birdie from half that distance at the 11th.
Fowler began Saturday with a birdie at the 12th but fell back with a bogey at the par-3 13th to remain three adrift of Woodland.
Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy birdied the eighth to open but parred his next five holes as he had the first seven playing alongside Woods.
