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Scheffler, however, would not call the pin placements unfair. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s anything unfair out there,\u201d he said. \u201cNot unfair. I think the only time in our game where it\u2019s unfair is like if you get wind starting to blow the ball off of greens. I haven\u2019t seen that yet.\u201d <\/p>\n
PGA of America pin locations will decide how low players can go this week. <\/p>\n
\u201cI truly believe they could have the winning score be whatever they want it to be. It could be over par if they want it to be, just based purely upon pin locations,\u201d Scheffler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a bit surprised how far they pushed a lot of these pin locations. When you\u2019re looking at the pins Wednesday night you are like, \u2018Wow, they\u2019re pushing these things as far as they can.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy revived his hopes of winning the PGA Championship with improved driving and a bogey-free round on Friday, then blamed a logjammed leaderboard on a poor course set-up.<\/p>\n
World number two McIlroy, coming off a Masters victory last month, fired a three-under-par 67 to stand on one-over 141 for 36 holes at formidable Aronimink.<\/p>\n
After spending hours on the driving range following his 74 on Thursday, when he closed with four bogeys in a row, McIlroy found what he needed to return to contention, even while sharing 30th.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt five back I do feel like I\u2019m right in the tournament and that\u2019s really what I wanted to do today was to just get myself back in it, and I feel like I\u2019ve done that,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA – MAY 15: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland reacts on the 18th green during the second round of the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club on May 15, 2026 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Jamie Squire\/Getty Images\/AFP (Photo by JAMIE SQUIRE \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)Source: AFP<\/p>\n
The six-time major winner from Northern Ireland said the PGA of America has protected the course with tough pin placements on its\u2019 sloping greens, but that should lead to easier weekend hole spots.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been hard to make birdies out there because one, the wind the last couple days, but also where they have put these hole locations,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like they have really tried to protect the course the first couple of days, so it seems like they have used up a lot of the really hard ones.\u201d That could provide inspiration for everyone who made the cut, McIlroy said. \u201cA little bit calmer conditions and maybe a couple more favorable hole locations, I think everyone has got to feel like they have got a chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it\u2019s bunched, but you get on a run with wedges on that front nine and you shoot 4-, 5-under and all of a sudden you\u2019re right in the thick of things.\u201d McIlroy ripped the course set-up for creating the lead logjam. \u201cA bunched leaderboard like this, I think it\u2019s a sign of not a great setup, because it hasn\u2019t really enabled anyone to separate themselves,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s easy to make a ton of pars, hard to make birdies, and not that it\u2019s hard to make bogey, but it feels like bogey\u2019s the worst score you\u2019re going to shoot on any one hole. There\u2019s not a lot of hazards.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always felt like really good set-ups, it starts to spread the field a bit, and not great setups sort of bring everyone together — I feel like that\u2019s what\u2019s happened the last two days.\u201d McIlroy said he has learned about the course and how to approach it, saying it will take being patient and waiting for chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a better understanding of how the course was playing, and just watching a little bit of the coverage early on today, I probably went out there yesterday being a little too aggressive thinking that guys were going to go lower than they were,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing the field isn\u2019t going to get away from you, you can be a little bit more patient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler called PGA Championship pin placements the hardest he has seen on tour, describing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2095,12739,64,63,689,325285,324990,1208,2057,755,9262,325288,216697,6920,233918,173689,2041,2067,3583,677,324185,325286,260905,668,1657,85,322459,2614,325289,325287,10911],"class_list":["post-674484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-america","tag-aronimink-golf-club","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brutal-test","tag-championship-day","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-golf","tag-golf-course","tag-hole-placements","tag-host-course","tag-justin-rose","tag-mark-fulcher","tag-miracle-shot","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-pin-locations","tag-pin-placements","tag-pin-positions","tag-press-conference","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sports","tag-top-ranked-defending-champion","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-veteran-caddie","tag-wind-starting","tag-world-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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