PGA Championship leaderboard 2013: Jason Dufner leads, Rory McIlroy surges

Gusting wind and firming greens are giving the afternoon group issues at the PGA Championship. Jason Dufner has been able to remain in the lead, though, regardless of the conditions, .

After pars on his first four holes, Dufner ran into trouble on No. 5 when he hit his tee shot way right and was forced to take a drop. After hitting his third shot into the right rough around the green, Dufner was unable to get up and down, eventually settling for a double bogey. That dropped him to 7-under and one stroke ahead of the field, but he earned a stroke back with a birdie on No. 7 to keep a one-shot lead.

Rory McIlroy began the day nine strokes off the lead, but cut that deficit to five strokes with back-to-back birdies closing his round. McIlroy sunk a long birdie putt at No. 17 before chipping in for birdie on his last hole to jump 21 spots up the leaderboard and into a tie for seventh place.

Jim Furyk rebounded after two early bogeys and is in second place at 7-under after birdying No. 4 and then adding another birdie at No. 8 to get back to even on the day. Henrik Stenson and Adam Scott are two off the lead at 6-under while Steve Stricker rounds out the top five at 5-under.

A few of the early leaders have fallen off the pace, by the way, including Matt Kuchar (4-over through nine) and Justin Rose (7-over through nine).

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