PGA Championship live updates: Mito Pereira, Will Zalatoris Chasing first major win

TULSA – They’re dwarves, technically, the four par-3 holes of the Southern Hills. They’re Nos. 6, 8, 11 and 14, but they ought to go by names such as Nasty, Beastly, Ornery and Just Plain Mean (which would be No. 6). They conspired with Ohio State-vs.-Michigan kind of weather Saturday to fluster the extraordinary golfers of the 104th PGA Championship, and they helped shape matters into one funky leader board.

The top of that leader board features players with world rankings of 100, 17, 30, 38, 21 and 42 after a day of autumn wind and 50-something temperatures and brooding clouds. It features only one top-10 player, No. 9 Justin Thomas, and he just spent Saturday riding bumpily across six bogeys and two birdies for a 74 that dropped him seven shots off the pace. He played the four dwarves in bogey, par, par and par, even if he did miss a six-footer on No. 6 that left him half-crumpled in disbelief.

At the top of the board at 9 under par stood one Guillermo “Mito” Pereira, a 27-year-old Chilean ranked 100th who actually had the nerve to birdie No. 14 after a rash of bogeys that saw his stunning four-shot lead whittled to one. By the end, once he birdied Nos. 13, 14 and 18, he had rebuilt that lead to three.