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Heading into the US PGA Championship this week, it was surprising how Aronimink would play and what a challenge he would present.
It was a strong feeling that the Pennsylvania course was ripe for taming.
Instead of belly-flopping and rolling, Aronimink bit it on day one of his second major of the season. He was bitten back.
By the end of Thursday’s first round, only 32 players – just fifth out of the 156-man field – had made the cut.
The world’s best struggled to cope with the task presented by the undulating course’s thick rough and slippery greens.
Appropriately, it was the world so true Best – Scotty Scheffler – As resilient as anyone.
After carding a three-under par 67, the defending champion showed his ability to consistently play hard in a seven-way tie.
The world number one has often struggled to get off to a fast start – a trait that is particularly expensive this season – but now he is leading after 18 holes for the first time in his career.
But the 29-year-old American is not surrounded by the usual suspects.
Scheffler finds himself alongside the German pair of Martin Keimer and Stefan Jaeger, South African Aldrich Potgieter, Australian Min-Woo Lee, Japanese Ryo Hisasune and American Alex Smalley – none of whom many expected to be on the leaderboard.
“There was some talk at the beginning of the week that people thought they were going to win 15 to 20 under. And I think that happened to someone in the PGA[of America]and they did something,” Spain’s John Rahm said.
