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Harrington still standing: Tiger Woods can only watch the PGA Championship on TV, if he so chooses, as he recovers from season-ending knee surgery after winning the U.S. Open. That left British Open champion Padraig Harrington and Masters winner Trevor Immelman as the only players in the PGA Championship field with a chance to win multiple majors this year. Now, it’s just Harrington. Harrington shot a 74 Friday at Oakland Hills to make the second-round cut at 5 over. Immelman wasn’t as fortunate, struggling for the second straight day and finishing at 13 over.A year ago, Harrington found out how exhausting it is to win the British Open. He just hasn’t figured out a way to play through it because he’s just as worn out after repeating. “I’ve just run out of steam,” the Irishman said. “What can I say? I haven’t got the focus this week. Obviously, I’m still just having a hangover after winning the Open. I think I need to spend 24 hours in bed.” Immelman can sleep as long as he’d like this weekend after missing the cut for the fourth time in eight PGA Tour events since winning at Augusta in April. “I played poorly and I’m bitterly disappointed about it,” the South African said. “I’ve been fighting with my swing. I’ve got the double-miss going, missing left and right. I really need to figure out what I’m going to do with my long game. But it doesn’t hurt knowing you won a major.”

Just cutting it: Jim Furyk made one of the two birdies on the 498-yard, par-4 18th Friday and his was huge. It got him to 8-over 148 — good enough to make the cut on the number — after he had four bogeys and two doubles during a 7-over second round. Robert Allenby birdied three of his last four holes for a 72 that left on the cut line. South African Charl Schwartzel made a remarkable run to make the cut by a stroke with six birdies in a seven-hole stretch on his back nine. U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger also made it, the first active captain to make the cut since Tom Kite in 1997, but two players on the bubble burst their chances of being among the eight automatic qualifiers for the team. Woody Austin and Hunter Mahan, who started the week ninth and 10th in U.S. Ryder Cup points, both failed to make the cut. U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate will start the third round at 8 over, surviving a round putting on what he called a “brown and nasty,” surface. “It’s not a complaint, but they’re on the verge of dying,” Mediate said. “It’s hard and it’s OK. It’s supposed to be hard.”

Associated Press