NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Chris Gotterup had enough Jersey toughness to handle the cold wind and treacherous greens Friday in the PGA Championship and then poured it on at the end with three straight birdies, giving him a 5-under 65 for the low round of the tournament.
Scottie Scheffler took a while to get settled down after not hitting a fairway until his ninth hole. He salvaged a 1-over 71 and was two behind Alex Smalley (69) among early finishers.
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Justin Rose, of England, watches from the 10th green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Justin Thomas hits from the eighth tee during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Scottie Scheffler hits from the 13th tee during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, lines up his shot on the ninth green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Chris Gotterup lines up his ball on the 12th green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Hideki Matsuyama shot 67 in his quest for a second major. Aldrich Potgieter, a 21-year-old from South Africa, had a strong front nine and was looking to become the youngest golfer with a 36-hole lead at a major since Tiger Woods' historic win at the 1997 Masters.
Aronimink is plenty difficult without dealing with blustery conditions that made it feel colder than the low 50s (10s Celsius) for so much of the morning.
“Today would definitely be one of those days where I would be on the couch and I would be like, ‘How did he hit it there?’ and ‘How did he do this?’ And then you’re out there, and it just feels like it’s impossible,” Gotterup said.
Gotterup has three PGA Tour titles since July, two of them this year to reach No. 10 in the world. He had his best stuff on a stage that is the closest course to a home major. He grew up 100 miles away and played college golf at Rutgers, just up the New Jersey Turnpike.
Gotterup had a pair of birdies on the back nine to hang around the lead and then finished the front nine with three short putts.
“I really battled all day,” Gotterup said. “It was very hard. There were some pins that didn't even look like they were on the green.”
Smalley set the early target at 4-under 136.
Scheffler, who had a share of the 18-hole lead for the first time in a major, couldn't quite keep up. One day after hitting 13 of 14 fairways, Scheffler didn't find the short grass until the 18th hole. He started on No. 10 and already had three bogeys — all from the rough — through four holes.
He might have saved his round on the par-3 14th when he hit a beautiful lag putt from 80 feet for a two-putt par. That settled him, and he closed with an up-and-down birdie on the par-5 ninth to finish at 2-under 138.
Two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas had another remarkable bogey that could have been much worse early in his round and was on the ropes until he steadied himself with a pair of birdies and salvaged another 69.
Thomas was playing with Cameron Young, who worked for pars and finished with an 8-foot eagle putt that gave him a 67.
Still to come in the afternoon were Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau, whose first order of business was to make the cut. McIlroy bogeyed his final four holes on Thursday for a 74, while DeChambeau didn't make a birdie until his final hole for a 76.
But the worst of the weather looked like it might be in the morning. Dustin Johnson, with perhaps his final invitation to the PGA Championship, ground out an even-par 70. Heading to the parking lot, he looked at a clearing sky and slightly calming wind and shook his head.
“It was blowing 100 for us,” Johnson said with a grin.
The former world No. 1 and two-time major winner is not typically prone to exaggeration. But it was hard work out there.
Shane Lowry went from one shot out of the lead to having to sweat out making it to the weekend after a 76, which included him topping a tee shot on the par-3 17th into the water. Justin Rose had two double bogeys through his opening five holes. He finished by chopping out of thick rough and into the hole for eagle at the end for a 73 that might just keep him around.
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Justin Rose, of England, watches from the 10th green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Justin Thomas hits from the eighth tee during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Scottie Scheffler hits from the 13th tee during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, lines up his shot on the ninth green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Chris Gotterup lines up his ball on the 12th green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors deadlocked in Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial Friday, forcing another mistrial in a #MeToo-era case that has gone to trial three times so far.
While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo. Weinstein appeared expressionless as court officers ushered him out in his wheelchair.
The majority-male Manhattan jury had been weighing whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein’s lawyers argued that the encounter was consensual. It happened in 2013 during a fraught relationship between the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger Mann.
A juror, Josh Hadar, told reporters that he and eight others wanted to acquit Weinstein. He said Mann had an “incredible memory” when she testified for the prosecution but “forgot a lot of things” when questioned by defense attorneys.
“It spoke a little bit to her credibility. ... In general, we feel kind of upset that we couldn’t come up with a verdict. We tried really hard,” Hadar, 57, said.
Weinstein’s defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo called it “a great day for our jury system.”
Juror Sarae Perez, 25, said the threshold for a conviction — beyond a reasonable doubt — was on her mind.
“There were places where we couldn’t trust her word for it,” she said.
Mann said in a statement that the mistrial “doesn’t in any way detract from the truth I told.” She said she relived painful moments and faced public attacks while seeking justice because “the power of predators remains too great.”
Signs of a split jury emerged a few hours into their third day of deliberations, when they sent a note saying they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Judge Curtis Farber told them to keep trying, a common step when a jury first says it’s stuck.
More than an hour later, they sent another note saying: “We feel that no one is going to change where they stand.”
A hearing was set for June 24 to learn whether prosecutors will choose to go to a fourth trial. District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he was disappointed with the result but “we deeply respect the jury system.”
Bragg said his staff will consult Mann about another trial and also take into account what happens to Weinstein when he's sentenced in another case. Mann was not in court when the mistrial was declared.
As an Oscar-winning movie producer and studio boss, Weinstein was one of Hollywood’s most powerful figures and a significant Democratic donor before the long-suppressed sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against him cascaded into public view in 2017. The revelations galvanized the #MeToo movement ’s demands for accountability for sexual misconduct, made Weinstein a pariah, bankrupted the studio and ultimately led to criminal charges against him in New York and Los Angeles.
He was convicted of some and acquitted of others. Yet Mann’s allegation lingered. Weinstein was convicted of the charge in 2020. Then an appeals court overturned that verdict, and jury deliberations broke down at a 2025 retrial. That paved the way for this year’s retrial.
Weinstein has said he was unfaithful to his then-wife and “acted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.”
Mann, now 40, met Weinstein at a Los Angeles party in early 2013, when she hoped to build a handful of acting credits into a big career. He took interest and soon showed that it wasn’t purely professional.
She said his initial, pushy overtures discomfited her, but she acceded to them and decided to develop a relationship with him.
She was staying with a friend at a Manhattan hotel in March 2013 when Weinstein showed up early for a planned breakfast and got a room over her objections, Mann testified. She said she accompanied Weinstein to the room to talk and made it clear she didn’t want sex.
“I said ‘no,’ over and over, and I tried to leave,” she told jurors during five days of intense testimony.
She said that Weinstein blocked her from leaving and grabbed her arms. Scared, she gave up protesting, complied with his demands to undress, and laid on a bed while he went into a bathroom, she told jurors. Then, Mann said, he raped her.
Mann told no one for years about the alleged rape. Nor did she mention it in her introspective, private writing two days later. In a note to herself, she grappled with conflicted feelings about becoming “emotionally attached” in a nonexclusive relationship with a man she didn’t name.
After Weinstein’s new lawyers confronted Mann with the note, she said she hadn’t needed to write down the allegation.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they choose to make their names public, as Mann has done.
Weinstein didn’t testify. In his lawyers’ telling, Mann was a willing partner in a close, supportive relationship with a show-business insider who opened doors for her, but she turned on him once he became an outcast.
In the months and years after the New York encounter, Mann kept seeing and communicating with Weinstein.
At times, she pulled away to pursue and preserve a relationship with a new boyfriend, according to her emails and testimony. At other times, she turned back to Weinstein, who validated her acting dreams, told her he was proud of her and responded caringly when her father was terminally ill.
“I love u. Anything u need,” Weinstein wrote.
Over the years, he helped Mann land a movie audition — it went nowhere — and a hairstyling job. She asked him for help with such things as a car problem and a club membership, though she declined a package his office tried to send in summer 2013, when she couldn’t make rent. Mann said she understood the envelope contained $1,000 in cash.
In one of her last emails to Weinstein, in February 2017, she wrote: “I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call.” When he responded by suggesting she was “joking” and should stop using his company email, she said it was a joke and apologized.
Eight months later, she saw the news reports that propelled his downfall and ultimately prompted her to go to police.
Mann never sued Weinstein, but after his 2020 conviction, she filed for and got about $500,000 from a sexual misconduct settlement fund set up during his company’s bankruptcy. The payout was mentioned at last year’s retrial, but the defense didn’t raise it this time after extensive arguments about what could and couldn’t be said.
Associated Press journalists Ed White in Detroit and Joseph Frederick in New York contributed.
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)
Harvey Weinstein appears with attorney Marc Agnifilo in Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)
Harvey Weinstein appears with attorneys Marc Agnifilo, left, and Jacob Kaplan in Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)
