In the annals of golfing weirdness, here’s a double whammy for the ages: the PGA Championship will be played this week not where it was originally scheduled to be played and without its 51-year-old defending champion in the field.
There will be no repeat of the will-he-or-won’t-he saga that dominated headlines leading up to the Masters. He’s playing competitive golf this week. The question now: how good will that golf be?
We all know inflation is running rampant these days. But any price hikes for your petrol and groceries are nothing compared to the sticker shock fans are in for this week at the 2022 PGA Championship.
The eight-time PGA Tour winner had surgery to repair the hamate bone in his left wrist on April 14 and was expected to be sidelined for upwards of two months.
Only four times since 2002 has a player won the Masters while ranking outside the top seven in greens in regulation, and Scheffler continued that trend, ranking T-5 while hitting 68.06 percent of his greens.