{"id":750,"date":"2026-05-12T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:50:32","slug":"golfers-ready-for-crazy-aronimink-greens-at-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Golfers ready for ‘crazy’ Aronimink greens at PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWTOWN SQUARE: Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler and a host of world-class rivals took their first practice rounds on Monday at Aronimink ahead of the 108th PGA Championship, which tees off Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A formidable 7,394-yard, par-70 course awaits in the year\u2019s second major tournament with 174 bunkers scattered across the layout, which features undulating greens at lightning-fast speeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now it\u2019s about getting to know the golf course, where the pin locations are going to be, where these pins you attack, where are the ones you layoff of, stuff like that \u2013 what are the deceiving shots,\u201d three-time major winner Jordan Spieth said.<\/p>\n

Scheffler worked with swing coach Randy Smith and putting coach Phil Kenyon before his practice round following a week off after some stellar play in recent events.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old American, a four-time major winner who can complete a career Grand Slam at next month\u2019s US Open, was second at the Masters, the following week\u2019s Heritage tournament and two weeks ago at Doral.<\/p>\n

A wide range of tee box positions will offer unique challenges to every hole every day, but Aronimink\u2019s greens offer the biggest test for players, said Keegan Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner who also captured the 2018 BMW Championship PGA Tour playoff event at Aronimink.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes this place difficult are the greens, so you really need to be able to control your distances, hit the ball in the fairway,\u201d Bradley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOff the tee it\u2019s not extremely challenging, but the greens get really crazy and they are really mounded and hilly\u2026 so to put the ball in the right spot is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

World number four Matt Fitzpatrick, an Englishman who won the 2022 US Open and has won three PGA Tour titles in the past two months, also sees the greens as the course\u2019s best defense against the world\u2019s top golfers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be the green complexes for sure,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re very severe in spots. It will be interesting to see where the pins get put. There\u2019s two or three holes where you can\u2019t have more than four pins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely favors length off the tee because a lot of the bunkers will be taken out of play.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first men\u2019s major at Aronimink since South African Gary Player won the 1962 PGA Championship over the suburban Philadelphia layout.<\/p>\n

\u2018Can\u2019t really cram\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spieth, who would complete a career Grand Slam with a victory, says pre-tournament practice work doesn\u2019t last so long as players take caution not to train too long and weaken efforts once the competition begins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really more methodical now where it used to be hours and hours,\u201d Spieth said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just an age thing. It\u2019s more just like recognizing that major weeks can feel really long and you want to feel your best when you wake up Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of it is energy conservation and figuring out how to attack the course. As far as the reps go, if you\u2019re not ready by now after the last couple weeks, you can\u2019t really cram for the test at a major.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jake Knapp withdrew from the field due to a thumb injury, allowing fellow American and first alternate Tom Hoge into the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWTOWN SQUARE: Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler and a host of world-class rivals took their first practice rounds on Monday at Aronimink ahead of the 108th PGA Championship, which tees off Thursday. A formidable 7,394-yard, par-70 course awaits in the year\u2019s second major tournament with 174 bunkers scattered across the layout, which features undulating greens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}