Semi-retired Lexi Thompson shot a 2-under 70 in the second round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship on Friday to put herself in position to contend over the weekend for her first major title in more than a decade.

Call her semi-retired. Or a part-timer. But as Lexi Thompson showed Friday in sweltering, blustery conditions, she’s no less competitive, especially when a major championship is on the line. Thompson’s 2-under 70 in the second round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship was the equivalent of going low on a day in which under-par rounds were as scarce as shade on the virtually treeless

Thompson's lone bogey of the day came on the difficult par-4 18th, denying her first bogey-free major championship round in three years.