{"id":443028,"date":"2026-05-15T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/443028\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:24:11","slug":"a-record-breaking-leaderboard-highlights-thursday-at-aronimink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/443028\/","title":{"rendered":"A Record-Breaking Leaderboard Highlights Thursday at Aronimink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When play ended in Round 1 of the 108th PGA Championship, a logjam of seven players shared the lead at 3-under 67 and Aronimink Golf Club was looking like the George Washington Bridge at rush hour on a Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>A whopping 33 players were within two of lead after Round 1, 48 were within three, and 92 within five.<\/p>\n<p>If you are thinking those have to be major championship records, give yourself a gold star. They are.<\/p>\n<p>At 3-under, it is also the highest leading score after Round 1 of a PGA Championship since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>That one of those seven tied for the lead after Round 1 is Scottie Scheffler was owed to a brilliant day off the tee. The world No. 1 found 13 of 14 fairways, and that was tied for the best in that category.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\"  width=\"377\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778847849_840_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely the best start I\u2019ve gotten off to this year,\u201d said Scheffler after his 3-under 67 gave him a share of the lead with Aldrich Potgeiter, Stephan Jaeger, Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hitsatsune, Martin Kaymer, and Alex Smalley.<\/p>\n<p>With Jaeger having shot 3-under 67 earlier in the day, Kaymer was told that only one other time had two Germans been in the top five at the end of a major championship round.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\"  width=\"792\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778847851_997_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 PGA Champion was intrigued. \u201cWho was that?\u201d Kaymer asked.<\/p>\n<p>The answer: The 2001 Open Championship at Royal St. Lytham when Bernhard Langer and Alex Cejka shared the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When play ended in Round 1 of the 108th PGA Championship, a logjam of seven players shared the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-443028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}