When the dust settled on the morning wave Thursday at the PGA Championship, the flags at the top of the leaderboard might ...

Scheffler was not alone is his opinion. Defending champion Xander Schauffele was displeased, saying his approach shot at the 16th—which also found the water—was a byproduct of mud on his ball.

A peculiar consensus had crystallized before this 2025 PGA Championship, that within its expansive field of 156 only a handful merited consideration. Rory McIlroy was an understood co-favorite, what ...