Women's PGA Championship 2015: Friday Leaderboard Scores and LPGA Highlights

The women take center stage on the golf course this weekend with the second major tournament of 2015 taking place at Westchester Country Club.

Inbee Park is the defending champion at the Women's PGA Championship and remains squarely in the mix after the second round at seven-under par, but everyone is looking up at Sei Young Kim after her 68 on Friday. 

Here's how the top of the leaderboard following Friday's second round looks:

Pos	Player	2nd-Round Score	Total
1	Sei Young Kim	-5 (68)	-8
T2	Inbee Park	-5 (68)	-7
T2	Karrie Webb	-2 (71)	-7
T4	Suzann Pettersen	-7 (66)	-6
T4	Brooke M. Henderson	E (73)	-6
T6	Stacy Lewis	-2 (71)	-5
T6	Jenny Shin	+2 (75)	-5
T8	Gerina Piller	-3 (70)	-4
T8	Caroline Hedwall	-2 (71)	-4
T8	Candie Kung	-1 (72)	-4
T8	Cristie Kerr	-1 (72)	-4
T8	Lexi Thompson	-1 (72)	-4
T8	Charley Hull	+1 (74)	-4

Full leaderboard can be found at LPGA.com

After six players were able to break 70 on Thursday, scores were much higher during the second round. Only three players reached 69 or lower, and the leaderboard remains a jumbled mess heading into the weekend, which is good for drama. 

This is a long course at 6,670 yards with a large par total of 73, so it was going to be difficult for players to keep putting up low scores over four rounds. 

Karrie Webb had one of the best rounds of the day with a two-under 71 to enter the third round at seven-under par. She started the day as the veteran of the leaderboard, as Kelly Tilghman of the Golf Channel noted on Twitter:

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Ages of the top 5 players at the KPMG Women's PGA: 22, 17, *40, 20, 19 *Karrie Webb

— Kelly Tilghman (@KellyTilghmanGC) June 11, 2015"

While Webb's competition after Thursday, like Brooke Mackenzie Henderson and Jenny Shin, failed to keep up their pace, the 40-year-old is thriving. She hasn't won a major since 2006 but did finish second at the Evian Championship last September. 

After the round, Webb addressed how the playing surface had changed overnight, via LPGA.com:

Another player seeking a major title after a long drought, though not quite as long as Webb's, is Stacy Lewis. Her last Grand Slam tournament victory was the 2013 British Open, and she is just three shots off the pace following a 71. 

The 30-year-old American sounded encouraged about where she stands heading into the weekend by not playing her best golf yet, via LPGA on Twitter:

Lewis has endured a long winless drought on tour dating back to June 2014, so her confidence after two rounds at the Women's PGA Championship does make her a threat heading into Saturday's third round. 

Yet everyone should be afraid of Kim after her bogey-free effort in the second round. She went five-under par on Friday to take the lead into moving day. The 22-year-old moved atop the leaderboard with an eagle on No. 15. 

Randall Mell of the Golf Channel noted the 22-year-old Kim has been no stranger to performing under pressure based on her effort in April's LPGA Lotte Championship:

Kim has been steadily building to this moment all year. She had only played in two major tournaments prior to 2015, finishing outside the top 40 in both, but turned over a new leaf with a fourth-place finish at the ANA Inspiration in April. 

Now, in the face of a talented and crowded field, Kim is building off that success and two wins earlier this year to prove she's a force on the LPGA Tour. There's still a lot of golf left to play and a lot can happen, but this is shaping up to be a good weekend for one of the best young stars in golf.