After making a surge and joining the leaders on three-under after day one, many had expected Scottie Scheffler to push ahead on day two at the PGA Championship.
That wasn’t the case at all, though. The World No. 1 actually went backwards slightly, recording a score of +1 on Friday to drop to a tie for seventh as things stand.
Much has been made of the tricky course setup at Aronimink already, and Scheffler has added his voice to that particular chorus.
In fact, the 29-year-old insists he has never seen pin positions as intentionally difficult as this in his whole career.
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Speaking to the media after his round on Friday, Scheffler highlighted a number of holes around the course where the pin positions were particularly challenging, and how he tried to deal with them.
“The par I made on 14 was extremely good. That was one of the craziest pins that I’ve seen,” he said.
“Your ball wasn’t going to roll off 50 yards away, but they put the pin on this high point. I hadn’t seen anything like it.”
He also wasn’t keen on the setup for hole 10, adding: “I’m sitting there, the wind’s blowing 20-25 miles an hour right-to-left, and I got a green that goes down right-to-left into a valley, up left-to-right, back right-to-left.
“Then the pin is quite literally, if I hit that chip shot and the pin’s here and it goes to there, it goes all the way over the back of the green, and now I have a very, very difficult up-and-down for bogey.
“So you just have to play smart and patient and understand that, I hit good shots on the 10th hole, but there’s sometimes, especially around a golf course like this, where you’re going to hit some good shots that aren’t quite good enough and you get punished pretty severely.
Scheffler claimed these were the “hardest set of pin locations” he’s ever seen on the Tour. He even asked Justin Rose’s caddie and his own if they had seen anything similar, and they both admitted the only course that comes close is next month’s US Open veue Shinnecock…
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