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JOHNS CREEK: Unheralded Americans Jason Dufner and Keegan Bradley held the joint lead at the end of Friday's second round of the PGA Championship but the battle for the final major of the year remains wide open.
Eight players were within two shots of the lead but there were fewbig names among them -- Tiger Woods missed the cut along with British Open champion Darren Clarke and 2010 US Open winner Graeme McDowell.
Instead the 34-year-old D.A Points and 40-year-old Australian JohnSenden -- both with just one PGA Tour win each -- were among a quartet of players a stroke behind the leaders.
Jim Furyk, the 2003 US Open winner and the experienced Scott Verplank, who has seven PGA Tour wins to his name, were also just a shot back on a leaderboard that few would have predicted but which did not surprise the frontrunners.
Loitering with intent, however, are the better known Australian Adam Scott, who shared the lead briefly before suffering a bogey on the14th and a double-bogey on the difficult final hole, and Britain's Lee Westwood, whose 68 kept alive his hope of his first triumph in a major.
Overnight leader Steve Stricker's four early bogeys undid much of the good work from his sizzling opening round of 63 but he was still only two strokes off the lead.
There was plenty of drama, though, from two of the sport's top attractions -- Woods and US Open winner Rory McIlroy.
Woods, a four-time PGA Championship winner, shot a three-over 73 to leave him at 10 over for the tournament and heading home early for the first time in this event. He double-bogeyed the par-four 11th after chipping from a bunker, over the green, into water and suffered another double on the 12th.
Woods ended his round going from sand to water as he bogeyed the 18th and left the course looking tired and dejected after just his second event back after a three month injury lay-off..
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