Scott, Baddeley in PGA mix

The much vaunted winds turned up at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course on day two of the PGA Championship making life tough for Adam Scott and Aaron Baddeley.

Starting the day two off the lead the Australian pair each shot three over par 75 to drop to one under for the tournament, but remain in contention as others also struggled.

They remained inside the top 20 and five off the lead after the morning wave despite the dropped shots as overnight storms and strong wind gusts made the course a different animal.

American Gary Woodland led at six under par through five holes, with Pat Perez, Ryo Ishikawa, Keegan Bradley and Carl Pettersson all one back.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are just two behind early in their rounds, tied with Vijay Singh who shot a brilliant 69.

Geoff Ogilvy is the leading Australian at three under par early in his second round. Scott started on the 10th hole, hitting into the teeth of the wind, and hit his first speed hump three holes in.

Trying to get close to right side pin near the waters edge on the 12th, Scott launched the ball too high on an aggressive line and it floated on the breeze into the hazard.

He backed it up with another bogey on the 13th after driving the ball into a pot bunker to begin a slide down the leaderboard.

Having turned downwind the Queenslander started a rollercoaster run of holes at the par five 16th.

He gained a shot back after a magical sand shot but as quick as he had some momentum he lost it again on the 18th with a short par miss resulting in another bogey.

Scott rolled in an eight foot birdie on the first, kept the momentum with a clutch 12-foot par save on the second but couldn’t repeat from 10 feet at the third and carded his fourth bogey of the day.

There was optimism of a strong finish when he made a 40-foot birdie putt on the sixth but the par five seventh took a chunk out of a spectator and his card.

Scott drove his ball into a waste area and was forced to take an unplayable lie. After dropping well back in the fairway he pumped his two iron down breeze but it sailed right on the wind and cannoned into a woman’s head, splitting her open and leaving blood on his ball, perhaps saving him from another penalty.

Although in need of stiches for the laceration the Maryland woman was in good spirits and asked Scott to “at least make a birdie” but he could only manage bogey, and dropped a final shot on the ninth to be five back from the lead.

“Luckily enough there was a doctor standing right next to her so she seemed okay at the time,” Scott said.

“She’ll be getting a big bunch of flowers from me.”

Aaron Baddeley, also shot 75, but was left to rue a poor double bogey on the last hole after a battling effort.

With just the one birdie and four bogeys through his opening 15 holes Baddeley was hanging on and the Victorian then shot back amongst it with back-to-back birdies at 16 and 17.

But the costly error on the last ensured he’d join Scott five off the pace.

Marcus Fraser, Robert Allenby and Brendan Jones already appear set to miss the halfway cut along with big names Luke Donald, Sergio Garcia, Webb Simpson and Rickie Fowler.

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