Golf: Four-way tie for lead; Campbell misses cut at PGA Champs

MEDINAH, Illinois - Swede Henrik Stenson, Briton Luke Donald and US Tour golf veterans Billy Andrade and Tim Herron shared the lead atop a congested leaderboard after a dark and gloomy second round of the PGA Championship today.

New Zealand's Michael Campbell missed the cut in disappointing fashion after shooting a four-over 76 today.

Campbell, who was 21st after his opening-round 70, recorded four bogeys and a double-bogey on par-five 14th hole to plummet from contention, missing the cut by two shots.

Overcast skies, heavy humidity and intermittent rain added an extra burden to the pressures of a major championship with a host of contenders, including world No 1 Tiger Woods and US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy, breathing down the leaders' necks.

Stenson (68), Donald (68), Andrade (69) and Herron (67) were tied at eight-under-par 136, one stroke ahead of British Open champion Woods, US Open winner Ogilvy and former PGA title holder Davis Love III.

Woods rolled in a 20-footer for birdie at the 18th to finish with a 68 for seven-under 137, tying playing partner Ogilvy (68) and Davis Love III (69).

Phil Mickelson, who played with Woods and Ogilvy, also birdied the last after driving into the rough for a scrambling 71 and a 140 total.

Four players were bunched at six-under, with another six players grouped one more shot back.

Early starter Stenson, who began the day two strokes off the pace, stormed out to a three-stroke lead with five birdies over his first 13 holes to reach nine-under. The Swede slipped back with a bogey at the last and others came up to challenge.

Conditions were soft again with little wind, but the dreary day, darkening skies and increasing rain at the 7561-yard (6914m) Medinah No 3 course -- the longest ever to host a major -- seemed to check anyone from seizing a commanding advantage.

"I didn't really do anything special today," said Woods, who had four birdies, two on each nine, in a bogey-free round.

"I just hung around and hung around and didn't make any mistakes."

Ogilvy sizzled with four birdies in a row from the fourth before balancing two bogeys and two birdies the rest of the way.

Andrade, like Woods, finished on a high note, rolling in a 20-footer for birdie at the last.

"With a golf course this difficult you've got to keep the ball in play and get off to good start and I've done that both days," said the 42-year-old Andrade, an alternate who did not arrive at Medinah until the day before the tournament.

"The birdie at 18 was a nice way to finish."

Stenson put himself in good position for a chance to become the first Swedish man to win a golf major.

"Overall I'm very happy," said the 30-year-old Stenson, a triple winner on the European Tour including this year's Qatar Masters.

"I'm in an awfully good position."

"Jesper (Parnevik) has been close a couple of times at the British Open and Sweden has never won a major so of course that would be huge," he said.

- REUTERS