Fifteen players are two shots or closer to the lead—and this is how Golf Digest’s Joel Beall summed up the week so far: “Aronimink has met every standard a major venue demands—and produced almost none of what a major championship should.” Rory McIlroy would concur. The six-time major champion improved on his first round by seven shots on Friday but is tied for 30th with a whopping 13 other players, despite being only five shots behind. “I think a bunched leaderboard like this, it's a sign of not a great setup,” McIlroy said. “It hasn't really enabled anyone to separate themselves. It's easy to make a ton of pars, hard to make birdies, and not that it's hard to make bogey, but it feels like bogey's the worst score you're going to shoot on any one hole.” Of course, if Scottie Scheffler, rather than, say, Maverick McNealy, wins, everybody will forget we ever had this talk.