Faxon argued the golfers are playing for their countries and not their tour. And Chamblee still wasn’t having it. Have a look as this debate leads to an all-time awkward moment between the two.
If there’s any consolation, Scheffler’s finish at Oak Hill did allow him to jump Jon Rahm and return to the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. Although that was news to Scheffler.
Other than Brooks Koepka, Michael Block was the biggest thing going at this PGA Championship. And in some ways, you could argue that he was the biggest. After all, no one else heard his name echoing throughout the grounds of Oak Hill.
Club pro and feel-good story of the 2023 PGA Championship Michael Block makes hole-in-one on the par-3 15th at Oak Hill Country Club while playing with Rory McIlroy.
Ryan Fox stepped up round one as the obligatory mystery man, at least to US reporters unaware of his efforts on the DP World Tour, that tends to pop up on a first-round leaderboard of a major championship—though he shouldn’t be.
Ahh, Tuesday of a major championship week. The day of talking, questioning and offering takes. I actually heard someone on Golf Channel today say that players might want to take Oak Hill’s “mowing patterns” of the fairways into account off-the-tee this week. True story.
Mickelson appeared to be calling out the fact that a handful of LIV golfers who were not in the PGA Championship field are ranked higher on the Official World Golf Ranking than at least one golfer who will be competing, Beau Hossler, ranked 128th.
Ninety-nine of the top 100 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are listed in the field, with Will Zalatoris the only one missing as he is not competing due to recent back surgery.