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Going into this week’s US PGA Championship, there was a fascination with how Aronimink would play and what challenge it would present.<\/b><\/p>\n
There was a strong feeling the Pennsylvania course might be ripe for being tamed.<\/p>\n
Instead of having its belly tickled and rolling over, Aronimink bit back on day one of the season’s second major. It bit back hard.<\/p>\n
At the completion of Thursday’s first round, only 32 players – barely a fifth of the 156-man field – had finished under par.<\/p>\n
The world’s best struggled to get to grips with the task presented by an undulating course with thick rough and firm, sloping greens.<\/p>\n
Fittingly, it was the world’s very <\/i>best – Scottie Scheffler – who coped as well as anyone. <\/p>\n
The defending champion is part of a seven-way tie for the first-round lead after plotting a three-under round of 67 which encapsulated his ability to play with relentless diligence and barely a flicker of fluster.<\/p>\n
The world number one has often struggled to make fast starts – a trait which has proved particularly costly this season – but is now leading a major after 18 holes for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n
But the 29-year-old American is not surrounded by the usual suspects. <\/p>\n
Scheffler finds himself alongside German pair Martin Kaymer and Stephan Jaeger, South Africa’s Aldrich Potgieter, Australia’s Min-Woo Lee, Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune and Alex Smalley of the United States – none of whom many would have expected to see at the top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
England’s Dan Brown is one shot behind the leaders on his overseas major debut.<\/p>\n
“Earlier in the week there was some chatter where people thought 15 to 20 under par was going to win. And I think that got to somebody in the PGA [of America], and they did something about it,” said Spain’s Jon Rahm, who finished one under par.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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