Anirban Lahiri of India missed the cut as he shot 3-over-73 in the second round after finishing his first round in 4-over 74 at the PGA Championships at Oak Hill.

As Lahiri exited at the halfway stage, Scottie Scheffler, the 2022 Masters champion, shot 2-under-68 and moved to 5-under and shared the lead alongside Corey Conners (68) and Viktor Hovland (67), who had led after the first at Augusta National. They were all at 5-under-135.

Lahiri, whose last Major was the PGA Championships in 2022, had five bogeys against one birdie in the first round and had four bogeys against one birdie in the second and at 7-over-147 he was two shots off the cutline.

American-Indian Sahith Theegala (71-71) was at tied 30th.

The leading seven players including Brooks Koepka, and Jon Rahm, the world No. 1. The top Asian was KH Lee with 73-68 and he was tied 19th at 1-over. Among other Koreans Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim missed the cut.