Charlotte, NC (AP) – Scottie Scheffler, Rory McILroy and Xander Schauffele were supposed to be the Marquis group to monitor Thursday at The PGA championship.
It did not look like Tour 1 – at least on the 16th hole with hollow quail.
The three main players in the world have all made a double bogey on the hole of 535 sides by 4 with Scheffler and Schauffele finding the water on their approach to the middle of the fairway while treating mud on their golf balls, and McILroy making a disorder of the hole in the touch – literally – when he slipped in wet conditions trying to hit the rough of a rugged deadline.
The three left green separately, discouraged and eager to hit the reset button.
McILroy seemed intended for troubles from the start after the Masters champion hung his starting to the left and watched with disbelief his ball rolled on a steep embankment, stopping in the depths a few meters from the water that runs along the left side of the Fairway. It left McILroy with an awkward position on a muddy side that had endured two days of heavy rains this week.
While McILroy tried to hit the ball, his rear foot slipped and he was lucky to contact the ball, which floated at some 65 meters and landed at a shorter harsh. McILroy could not save the peer while his approach fired from 181 yards which sailed to the right of the green. He chipped a bunker and two strokes for a 6.
The wetlands also affected scheffler and scheuffle.
The two beautiful smokes lead to the middle of the fairway and seemed ready to be sneaky at the start on the three difficult holes of the hollow quail on the nine rear known under the name of Green Mile.
But playing with muddy balls, the two sent their approach shots about 200 meters in the water on the left side of the green in an almost identical way, and were forced to take drops. Faced with serious uphill lies, the two players sent their loft corners in front of the hole and needed two putts to finish – with a scheffler making a 7 -foot putt just to save Double Bogey.
This is the first time since 2022 The PGA championship has gathered Together, n ° 1-2-3 in the world ranking for the start of the tournament.
It was part of an erratic start to Scheffler, who carded an eagle, a birdie, a peer, a bogey and a double bogey on his first seven holes with the players starting their turn on n ° 10.
Before Thursday, Scheffler had never made a double Bogey (or worse) in the first round of a major championship.
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