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Well at times round two of the US PGA Championship was played at a snail's pace but we got there in the end and things will definitely ramp up on in the third round especially if Rory McIlroy begins to charge.

While American duo Maverick McNealy and Alex Smalley head the leaderboard they only have a slender one-stroke advantage.

And given in 14 of the previous 15 PGA Championships, the eventual winner was among the top seven players including ties, at the end of the second round, there is plenty to play for with a stellar cast assembled within just a handful of shots.

We will be back for moving day at the US PGA Championship on Saturday from 18:00 BST.

You'll will also be able to listen to live coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra from 20:00 BST.

See you all then.

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Scottie Scheffler saw a few pins today he's never seen before, and says the PGA of America could make Aronimink as tough as they want to: "It's funny sometimes, I feel like the thing in our game right now, which I do enjoy, I love hard tests of golf, but it's also the hardest game in the world and we're trying to make it harder.

"You can do that on a golf course like this - I mean, I truly believe they could have the winning score be whatever they want it to be. It could be over par if they want it to be, just based purely upon pin locations.

"You just got to continue to try to hit good shots, and most of the pins today were, I mean, kind of absurd. They were just so far into the areas where we thought the pins were going to be, and then they just -- like the one on 14 was probably the hardest pin that I've seen in a long time.

"Is that the best test? Who knows. It's a different test. I think that's what's great about our game is very rarely do we play the same golf course, and even when you do at a place like Augusta, it's different each and every year.

"So conditions are always changing, the golf course is always changing. I think it's the hardest game in the world and still just trying to solve a bit of the puzzle."

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Rory McIlroy, speaking to ESPN after his bogey-free 67:

"I just needed to try and find the feeling with the driver [on the range last night].

"I feel like a lot of the bogeys I made yesterday were because of hitting it in the rough and wayward drives. I felt like I found the feel last night and definitely drove it better today to give myself more chances but also limit the mistakes and not have any bogeys on the card.

"It was a day just to get back in the tournament and I feel like that's what I was able to do."

On staying patient over the first two rounds:

"The wind is a big part of that. Some of these hole locations have been brutal, very difficult. Not only to get your second shot close but to get a lag putt close.

"It's a really bunched leaderboard because I think guys are finding it hard to make putts out there. Anyone who makes the cut tonight will feel like they're in the tournament."

On his approach going into Saturday:

"It looks like the conditions will be a bit more favourable. It enables you to be a bit more aggressive and fire at more pins but with no rain it could make the course firmer. It's been a great test and I'm sure it'll be the same over the weekend."

Aronimink has not taken any prisoners over the first two days.

With the cut line at four over, here's a selection of big names, who will be heading home before Saturday's third round:

+5 - T Fleetwood (Eng), W Clark (US), R MacIntyre (Sco), R Henley (US)

+6 - JJ Spaun (US), V Hovland (Nor), G Woodland (US), K Bradley (US), S Straka (Aut), T Hatton (Eng)

+7 - B DeChambeau (US) ,H Hall (Eng), T McKibbin (NI)

+8 - A Scott (Aus),

+12 - M Penge (Eng), M Homa (US)

Co-leader Maverick McNealy, speaking to Sky Sports:

"I think I played four and a half hours of really good golf and stumbled a bit coming in, but it's both [a mental and physical challenge]. It's a long time to be switched on."

On his wayward driving:

"I'll be honest, this is one of the few courses I can still compete on without hitting the fairways. The missed fairway penalty isn't as bad as most other places. The fairways are definitely easier to control the golf ball and I hope to hit more over the weekend."

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Ludvig Aberg, who finished with a four-under round of 66, told Sky Sports: "It was better today. Most parts of my game were better. I hit more fairways, hitting it closer and I was putting nicer. We knew today was going to be a day of patience and I think the back nine scorecard kind of shows that. It's nice to finish that way.

"I felt comfortable with the irons and hit some nice shots, and hopefully I can do that tomorrow. This golf course is a golf course of patience. There's holes where you have to take off shots and I like that. Staying patient is going be key for me."

After another great blow off the tee, Rory McIlroy's in a position to attack, but it's a ho-hum eight iron that hooks away from the pin.

In the end, it's a bogey-free 67 for the Masters champion. He'll probably have mixed feelings. While he kept himself out of trouble and moved up the leaderboard, he passed up several birdie chances and it's hard not to feel like he's left a few out there today.

Jon Rahm closes with a par and the Spaniard may be a tad frustrated having reached three under, but he's very much in the frame at the halfway mark.

And can Jordan Spieth close with a birdie after a beautiful approach? No! He's holed practically nothing today and that's a 72.

They all look knackered.

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Australia's Min Woo Lee, speaking after a signing for a level-par 70: "Happy with the grind. I did lose it a little bit out there just in the middle part. There's some tough holes out there. But it's very easy to get your mind spiraling, but you can't do that at a major championship."

On what it would mean to win a major: "You would elevate as a player and, yeah, I don't want to jinx anything, but, yeah, if we get to that question again I would answer it how I feel. You win one, but you got to win three more to overtake the sister [Minjee Lee]. So there's still a long way to go."

What a par save that is from Brooks Koepka. The American makes a right hash of his approach into the 18th with his ball corkscrewing down into the gnarly stuff at the back of the dance floor.

However, his recovery chip into around six feet is something else.

He could do with holding on to that heading into Saturday's third round, which will take place without Tyrrell Hatton, who cards a disappointing four-over 74 for the day.

After a wild swipe off the tee at the par-five ninth, Maverick McNealy luckily ends up in the strip of rough that's been trampled down by the fans. He's able to muscle his second greenside but he can't get up and down and that's a closing five.

Despite a stumbling finish, it's a good round of 67 and he shares the lead with Alex Smalley.

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A third straight birdie to finish his round for Bryson DeChambeau, but it's too little too late for the 32-year-old LIV Golf player.

The American rallies to finish seven over but he will not make the cut so bids this yea'rs PGA Championship farewell.

Rickie Fowler saves par on the 18th with a 21-foot putt which keeps him below the projected cut line and not totally out of things.

How did that not drop?!

From all of 60 feet at the par-three 17th, Jordan Spieth's birdie putt looks for all the world like going in but it stops agonisingly short. Not much has gone his way today but he's not outta this thing.

Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm both take two putts after confident hits into the heart of the green.

So, five hours after teeing off, they reach the 18th.

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Aldrich Potgieter, speaking after signing for a 70: "I think looking at those last two holes was kind of unfortunate, but, yeah, I felt like I was in control most of the round and had some really nice par saves that kind of kept the momentum going. So I was quite happy with it.

"Sleeping on the lead is not always good, but it's mentally probably draining for a week like this where it's so big. So I think being in a couple shots back kind of puts me in that position to be able to go and go look for a low round instead of defend.

"Looking back to some of the positions I was in through on the PGA Tour, with the Rocket Mortgage, it was tough sleeping on that lead, and that opening Sunday round was pretty hard at first, six holes until I lost the lead, and I was like, okay, if I win today, it's fine, if I don't, it's also fine.

"There will be a hundred other opportunities coming. So it was nice for me to kind of get to that point where I lost the lead and I was like, well, now we can just go and attack again and kind of be in that position where I'm not really thinking about it too much."

Ludvig Aberg finishes with a par at the last as he shoots an impressive four-under round of 66 to keep himself within striking distance of the top of the leaderboard.

The 26-year-old Swede's card features five birdies and a bogey and he really got a handle on the pace of the greens at Aronimink Golf Club - especially during a hot birdie streak with his putter on the back nine.

Aberg missed the cut for the PGA Championhip in 2024 and 2025 but he will be back for the whole weekend this time.

Jordan Spieth cuts a glorious hybrid into the par-five 16th to set up a golden chance for eagle.

No - his putt never threatens but it's a welcome first birdie of the day.

Rory McIlroy was in the deep stuff off the tee, and while he recovered enough to give himself a 10-footer for birdie, it slides past on the right. Two fives on the par-fives for the Masters champion today.

Jon Rahm's birdie attempt lips out and he's looking a little cheesed off.

Pars all around on the 17th.Tyrrell Hatton's race looks to be run unless he can conjure up and eagle down the 18th.

Xander Schauffele arrests his run of bogeys with a birdie on the 16th but Tyrrell Hatton can't do the same.

In fact the Englishman ends up scrambling to save his par after launching his approach into the left greenside bunker and then escaping from the sand only to go through the green.

Don't try that at home!

Maverick McNealy's shot into the par-three eighth lands long and comes to rest up against the fringe.

Wary of catching the longer grass with his backstroke, the American turns his putter so that the toe of the blade is addressing the ball and makes a little pop stroke.

It's a decent attempt but he's left with a 12-footer and it doesn't drop.

A bogey and he's back at four under in a share with Alex Smalley.

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So close to a fantastic fifth birdie from Ludvig Aberg.

He glides an 18-foot putt but it horseshoes around the lip of the hole and he returns to tap in for par.

Birdies for Bryson DeChambeau and Rickie Fowler give their rounds some momentum in the closing stages.

DeChambeau's cause is forlorn as he tees off at the 18th but Fowler has a cut to make.

Where is Min Woo Lee going off the 17th tee? Way right, that's where, into the rough. He gets nowhere near enough release on his chip and that's a shot shipped.

Not that he lets it get under his skin, as he cards a regulation par on the 18th to set himself up nicely for the weekend.