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Scotty Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked golfer, PGA Championship Thursday.
Usually, evenly quiet golfers have given the exception of the PGA’s decision not to lift, clean, or play locations for the first round of the PGA Championship at the Sogik Azur Hollow Club in Charlotte.
American PGA It is the tournament governing body, and this is the second major of the season.
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Scotty Schaeffler tees off on the third hole in the first round of the PGA Championship at Quazlo Hollow. (Aaron Doster/Imaging Image)
On Wednesday, the organization issued a statement saying “The ball is lying.” The announcement came after the course was sucked in by inches of rain before the first round.
Several players were effectively forced to fight what is often referred to as “mud balls,” making the trajectory of the hit ball easier to manage.
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Schaeffler hit a tee shot in the middle of the fairway at Hall No. 16, and the shot caught on the left and entered the water for a double bogey.
Scottie Scheffler will attack the tee shot on hole 11 before the PGA Championship at the Cool Hollow Country Club on May 14, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Andrew Reddington/Getty Images)
“This will be the last answer I give about playing it up and down,” Schaeffler said. “I mean, I don’t make the rules. When you’re looking at the purest form of golf, I don’t think there’s any reason to play the ball on the Link golf course if you’re going to play Link golf. It doesn’t matter how much rain they’ll fall. The course can get underwater and the ball is somehow bouncing off due to the condition of the turf and the ground under the grass.
“In American golf, that’s quite different. When you cover up a fairway that doesn’t cover the sand, there’s a lot of mud on the ball. That’s just a part of it. When I think about the purest test of golf, I personally don’t think I should hit the ball in the middle of the fairway.”
The first green of the singles of the Presidential Cup Golf Tournament held at Cool Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 25, 2022. (Peter Casey/USA TODAY SPORTS)
Schaeffler admitted that “golf purists” would probably take it, but twice Masters winner It suggested that the decision on the rules created unexpected terms for competitors.
“On the golf course, it’s in just as good as this, and this is probably the situation where most of the lies you get here are really good, so that’s the least likely difference to play it.
“We understand what golf purists will look like, but I don’t think they understand that they are literally working your whole life to learn how to hit a golf ball and control it and hit the distance between shots and control, and by the decisions of the rules, it’s taken away by chance entirely from us.
“In golf, I don’t think there’s enough luck through the 72-hole tournament and we’re not talking about whether the ball goes up or down. Looking at the golf tournament, we need the purest and most unbiased test of golf.
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Schaeffler gathered from a tough break on hole 16 to finish a 2-under par on Thursday. Ryan Gerald was at the top of the leaderboard on Thursday evening. The PGA Championship continues on Friday.
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