Rory McIlroy bogeyed his final four holes Thursday to shoot 74, while Bryson DeChambeau had only one birdie in shooting 76.
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On a course where most of the field has limited to nonexistent experience Brandt Snedeker is the outlier at this week’s PGA Championship.
Watching a swing video of his 3-year-old son, John, a couple months ago helped spark Young’s recent hot stretch, his dad says.
Cameron Young does not consider himself a trailblazer, just another PGA Tour player attempting to optimize every part of his game.
Who will win the 108th PGA Championship? What will be the winning score at Aronimink? GolfChannel.com writers weigh in.
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy go off as favorites this week at the 108th edition PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club. Can Scheffler repeat or will McIlroy claim his third Wanamaker Trophy?
Aronimink isn’t a long course and the greens are its primary defense. Smylie Kaufman highlights one of those difficult, sloping putting surfaces at the par-4 11th hole.
Rory McIlroy had some toe issues Tuesday but Todd Lewis reports that McIlroy’s not overly concerned. McIlroy did, however, express that he’s in an overall better mental frame of mind coming into this PGA than he was a year ago when he won his first Masters.
Brandel Chamblee believes that Scottie Scheffler is clearly superior to Rory McIlroy. Paul McGinley would beg to differ. And that’s what they do in Tuesday’s “Live From the PGA Championship” at Aronimink.
Scottie Scheffler has finished runner-up in his last three PGA Tour starts. This week, he’s the defending champion of the PGA Championship and looking for his fifth career major title. He met the media Tuesday at Aronimink.
Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon discusses the right toe injury that forced Rory McIlroy off the course on Tuesday at Aronimink and what lingering concerns there are ahead of Thursday’s opening round.
McIlroy continues to deal with a troublesome right pinky toe ahead of the PGA Championship.