SPRINGFIELD (New Jersey), Aug 13: A confident Phil Mickelson put himself firmly in control of the 87th PGA Championship when he fired a sizzling five-under 65 second round on Friday. It put the 35-year-old three clear of his nearest rival, fellow American Jerry Kelly, who also shot a 65 in the afternoon.

Mickelson was four shots clear of American Davis Love, England’s Lee Westwood and South Africa’s Rory Sabbatini. World number one Tiger Woods had to wait until the final hole before booking his place for the weekend and keeping his record of never missing the cut in a Major as a professional intact.

Second round scores

132 Phil Mickelson

135 Jerry Kelly

136 Rory Sabbatini, Davis Love III, Lee Westwood

137 Greg Owen, Stuart Appleby, Vijay Singh, Jesper Parnevik, Shingo Katayama

138 Yong-Eun Yang, Geoff Ogilvy, Retief Goosen, Steve Elkington

MOSCOW: Leading second round scores from the 400,000 euros Russian Open on Friday:

134 - Fredrik Widmark

135 - Mikael Lundberg

136 - Ben Mason

138 - Denny Lucas,Andrew Butterfield, Marc Warren

139 - Hernan Rey, David Drysdale

140 - Jarrod Moseley, Kyron Sullivan, David Orr.—Agencies