Scottie Scheffler calls out 'absurd' PGA Championship course amid 'unfair' conditions
Scottie Scheffler had a second round of one over at the PGA Championship this Friday, leaving him on a score of two under going into tomorrow’s action.
The world no.1 fell down the leaderboard after he had put himself in a fine position from the action on Thursday.
Scheffler managed to steady himself after a poor start in which he had three bogeys on the opening four holes as he battled the elements and his own emotions in what was a frustrating day.
The American claimed the brutal pin locations are the toughest he has ever seen on the PGA Tour.
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Scheffler said: “This is the hardest set of pin locations that I've seen since I've been on Tour, and that includes U.S. Opens; that includes Oakmont.
“I did ask; I asked Fooch [Mark Fulcher], who caddies for Justin Rose. He's been around a long time -- and I asked Teddy [Scheffler's caddie Ted Scott] too -- have you seen anything like this before? They said maybe Shinnecock is the only place they have seen that has pins that could compare to this.
"It's difficult to get the ball close to the hole. It's difficult to hole putts, especially when you have big slopes and wind, and I think that's why you see the scores so close to par."
The 29-year-old believes the reason behind the difficulty of Aronimink's greens is that they don't follow the curves of the course with 'manufactured' angles.
He said: “But it's different in a sense on this golf course, because Oakmont, their greens are extremely severe, but they're extremely severe in one direction," he explained.
"Here, it's like the green may slope all this way, and then we put the pin down here, and then there's also a slope this way. And like, it's not as, how would you say, natural to the slopes that are there. There's a bit more, I think, that's manufactured into the greens, and it's just very difficult."
Several players found the course and its conditions difficult, not just Scheffler, but the American insisted that it wasn't unfair.
He said: “I think the only time in our game where it's unfair is like if you get wind starting to blow the ball off of greens," he added. "I hadn't seen that yet.
"It looks like the wind's going to die down as the week goes on. I don't think we'll see that this week."
Topics: Golf
Brendan McGilligan