Third round of USPGA starts on time

The second round of the United States PGA Championship was spared a third fog delay and was able to resume on time at 7am at Whistling Straits today.

And within minutes of the resumption Scot Martin Laird had fallen from four under par – four off the lead held by American Matt Kuchar – to six back with a double bogey six on the 500-yard par four 18th, his ninth.

Tiger Woods, Padraig Harrington, Luke Donald and Paul Casey were also among the 78 players yet to reach halfway.

Woods had parred his first six holes last night to remain one under and over the same stretch Harrington had grabbed four birdies, but also one bogey to move from three over to level par.

However, Woods instantly bogeyed the short seventh and was down in 51st spot at one over, while Harrington and Casey both dropped a shot at the eighth to stand one over and two over respectively.

Donald, like the other two needing a big week to guarantee a Ryder Cup place, started the back nine in trouble at three over, two outside the projected cut mark.

US PGA Leaderboard

8 under - Matt Kuchar (after 36 holes)

7 under – Nick Watney (36)

5 under – Jason Dufner (36)

Dustin Johnson (36)

Zach Johnson (36)

Simon Khan (Eng) (36)

Rory McIlroy (NIrl) (36)

Bryce Molder (36)

Seung-yul Noh (Kor) (36)

4 under – Chad Campbell (36)

Jason Day (Aus) (32)

Justin Leonard (31)

Jim Furyk (28)

Bubba Watson (28)

3 under – Carl Pettersson (Swe) (36)

Steve Elkington (Aus) (27)

Francesco Molinari (Ita) (25)

Edoardo Molinari (Ita) (25)

Vijay Singh (Fij) (25)

2 under – Ernie Els (Rsa) (36)