The first round of the US PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club is underway, and the course is already living up to its reputation as a place where dreams go to die - or at least to bogey. Bryson DeChambeau, whose touch is currently all over the shop, overcooked a downhill 30-foot putt from the fringe at the back of the 11th hole. The ball caught the slope of the green and rolled 60 feet past, nearly ending up back on the fairway. That led to an inevitable bogey. Jon Rahm also dropped a shot on the 1st, his approach disappearing down a swale to the right of the green, and he couldn't get his ball back up with his first chip. Rory McIlroy bogeyed too, the result of an errant drive and a skulled wedge. For a course supposedly there for the taking, Aronimink is sure baring its teeth.\n\nIn the 'It Can Happen to the Best of Them' department, Rory McIlroy's ball hit a tree down the right of the 1st, came straight down, and disappeared into thick rough. He lashed at it with great force, but the ball only squirted out of the cabbage - a topper that dribbled 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.
PGA Championship Day One: Aronimink Bares Its Teeth, Bites Several Golfers in the Butt
Bryson, Rahm, and Rory all find creative ways to lose strokes at Aronimink, proving that even the best can look like weekend hackers.