Justin Rose disagrees with Scottie Scheffler’s controversial comments about Aronimink
Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Aronimink Golf Club played far easier on Saturday than it did for the first two days of the PGA Championship, and Justin Rose took full advantage. Some of the pin placements were kinder, and the wind died down slightly from the day before, which allowed Rose to shoot a third round 65 to climb into contention. He finished his round two shots behind the lead, with a host of players yet to come back to the clubhouse.
Aronimink walked back some of their incredibly tough pin positions from Friday, which came under fire from Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler said after his second round, “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. ” Scheffler apparently asked Rose’s caddie, Mark Fulcher, if he’d seen any harder, and apparently he said that only Shinnecock compared at the 2018 US Open. But Rose, speaking after Saturday’s play, said that he didn’t agree with Scheffler or his caddie.
Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Justin Rose disagrees with Scottie Scheffler about PGA Championship pin positions Rose had to work hard just to make the cut, making a chip-in eagle on the final hole to get himself just over the cut line. He clearly struggled with the tougher setup, but he still disagrees with Scheffler about just how tough the pin placements were. The 2013 US Open winner said, “I had bigger problems to worry about.
I was just trying to get my game going and maybe didn’t notice how difficult the flags were. I kind of felt like I wasn’t chasing them anyway, to be honest with you. “But there were a lot of shots, even when you were on the green from 30, 40 feet, you would be hitting putts up to those pins and like looking at it, and it was just very awkward.
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