Key events1m agoKirk, Reitan shoot 6529m agoPreambleShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureKirk, Reitan shoot 65Oh dear. Kirk can’t make the par putt on 18 coming back … and then he misses the bogey tiddler. It’s not technically a four-putt, because the first was from off the front of the green … but it kind of is, isn’t it? He certainly wears the slightly drained look of someone who was one putt away from equalling major-championship history, and has somehow managed to make a 65 feel like a disappointment. He ends the day at -2 overall … as does last week’s winner at Quail Hollow, Kristoffer Reitan, who also signs for a slightly less dramatic 65 (if making two eagles on the back nine can be considered undramatic, that is).Justin Rose was the next player after Michael Kim to get stuck in. He carded five birdies on the front nine, at 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9, turning in 30. Another birdie at 13 was instantly cancelled out with bogey on 14, since when he’s been forced to make a series of staunch par savers. But they’ve all gone in. He’s hanging onto his score, and he’s one par away from a 65 that will revive his bid for a second major. To think he needed to make birdie on 9 last night in order to survive the cut … and chipped in for eagle! Rose is -2 overall.Chris Kirk won’t be making his record-equalling 62. He takes Texas wedge from off the front of the 18th, and rattles a very excitable 45-foot birdie attempt 12 feet past. He’ll now have a job on to card 63.The first sign that low scoring was afoot today was provided by Michael Kim. The 32-year-old, born in South Korea but representing the USA, has come out of a mid-career slump that saw him at one point miss 23 cuts in a row. He won the French Open last year, and has reestablished himself as a regular participant in the majors, if not one making any serious waves. He was due to miss the cut yesterday, and was +7 with six holes to play, but birdied 4 and 6 before chipping in for eagle at 9. Then this morning he birdied 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7, a run spoiled by a single bogey at 4. He turned in 30. Sadly a double bogey at 10 scuppered his momentum, and though he came close to making a hole-in-one albatross at the driveable par-four 13th – six feet short, for the record – he shot 37 on the back nine. Still, that’s a fine 67, a round he wasn’t expecting to play six holes from home yesterday. He’s level par overall. Kim is the current clubhouse leader, alongside Nicolai Højgaard, who shot 66 today.Actually, let’s immediately revise that, because Chris ‘Captain’ Kirk has just raked in a long birdie putt across 17. It’s his eighth birdie of the day. Just the one bogey, and so a birdie up the last would give the 41-year-old from Tennessee a 62, equalling the lowest-ever round in a men’s major, a record jointly held by Branden Grace (2017 Open), Rickie Fowler (2023 US Open), Xander Schauffele (2023 US Open and 2024 PGA) and Shane Lowry (2024 PGA). Oh, and it gives him a share of the lead.-4: Kirk (17), Smalley, McNealy