During the PGA Championship at the Aronimink Golf Club, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy led a chorus of players who questioned the PGA of America’s setup of the nearly century-old Donald Ross layout.
To quickly recap, after his second round, Scheffler called some of the pin positions “absurd” and the most difficult he’s seen in his seven years on the PGA Tour. McIlroy called the bunched leaderboard a “sign of not a great setup.” Before the tournament started a fair amount of the conversation had been about the perils of tree removal. “In the back of my mind, they planted those trees with the future vision of having those trees in play, said Jon Rahm, “and now you’re taking them all out?”
