Article 75M1R US PGA Championship, day one – as it happened

US PGA Championship, day one – as it happened

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Scott Murray and David Tindall
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Defending champion Scottie Scheffler tied for the first-round lead on a difficult day for Rory McIlroy

Bryson's touch is all over the shop. He overcooks his downhill 30-foot putt from the fringe at the back of 11 ... and the ball catches the slope of the green, rolling 60 feet past! So nearly off back down the fairway! That leads to an inevitable bogey. Also dropping a shot: Jon Rahm on 1. His approach disappears down a swale to the right of the green, and he can't get his ball back up with his first chip. Rory also bogeys, the result of that errant drive and skulled wedge, and for a course supposedly there for the taking, Aronimink sure is baring its teeth.

It Can Happen To The Best Of Them dept. Rory McIlroy's ball, having hit a tree down the right of 1, comes straight down and disappears into thick rough. He lashes at it with great force, but the ball only squirts out of the cabbage, a topper that dribbles 100 yards down the fairway. We've all done it, Rory on fewer occasions than most. But here he is. So much for his pre-tournament claim that strategy off the tee is pretty non-existent", huh. And there's no blaming a blister on his pinky toe for that one.

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