Rory rips PGA Championship course setup and he's not alone

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee said it best: “It ain’t a major until you’ve got some bitching, and we’ve got some bitching now. ” Some moaning and whining too.

Ireland’s Shane Lowry had the line of the day, telling The Irish Times , “I felt like every pin was on the bonnet of a car. ” Aronimink Golf Club and its pesky crowned Donald Ross greens (restored by Gil Hanse) are full of tilt, shoulders and subtle movements that keep players guessing. It didn’t help the pros that it was another bitter cold morning and the wind played havoc with anything less than a precise shot.

Scottie Scheffler bogeyed three of the first four holes. Lowry cold-topped, semi-shanked one into a pond. A case of three putts spread faster than the hantavirus.

Rory McIlroy, who played in warmer and calmer conditions in the afternoon, shot a bogey-free 67 and continued to take shots at the course. “I think it's a sign of not a great setup, I think when it's as bunched as it is, because it hasn't really enabled anyone to separate themselves,” he said. “It's like, you know, it's easy to make a ton of pars, hard to make birdies, and not that it's hard to make bogey, but it feels like bogey's the worst score you're going to shoot on any one hole.