Matsuyama, Kisner tied for lead at PGA Championship

Matsuyama, Kisner tied for lead at PGA Championship

Five days after the 25-year-old Japanese star closed with a 61 to win his second World Golf Championship, Matsuyama motored through a dampened Quail Hollow with a 7-under 64 that gave him a share of the lead with Kevin Kisner (67) in the PGA Championship.

Heavy rain that suspended play Friday afternoon made Quail Hollow more vulnerable than it has been all week, only Spieth couldn't take advantage.

A light rain began falling not long after McIlroy's prediction.

[...] the storms rolled in with heavy rain that drenched the course and forced a rain delay of 1 hour, 43 minutes.

Jason Day, who played a four-hole stretch in 5 under around the turn and before the storms, began smashing driver without regard that it might run through the fairways and into the rough.

[...] the biggest difference was the rain took the fear out of putting on the fast, frightening greens and sent scores tumbling.

Kisner doesn't have the length for this 7,600-yard course, but he has golf smarts, a reliable swing and a good putting stroke for the greens.