Stars struggle in first round of PGA Championship
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee reacts to the first day of the 2025 PGA Championship where Johnattan Vegas has jumped out to a stroke lead over Ryan Gerard and Cam Davis.
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Hello from Quail Hollow, where it was a very bad day to be a star at the first round of the PGA Championship.
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Your leader at -7, Jonathan Vegas, who caughttered an incredible 5 birdies in his final 6 holes, 2 strokes ahead of Ryan Gerrard and Cam Davis.
Guys.
You know a little bit better guys like Masters champion Rory McIlroy, who's at + 3, Xander Schaffley, the defending champion here is at plus 1.
Brooks Kepka at + 4.
A lot of stars struggled on the day today.
Why?
Well, as you may be able to tell, behind me, the course was soaked by about 5 inches of water and there's still a lot of mud in the area that was causing a lot of problems for the players.
Now there were some highlights, we had some chip ins, we had a hole in one, but a lot of big names struggled with the.
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Conditions here and we're not shy about talking about it.
Shfly called it stupid.
Scotty Scheffer, who finished at -2, was not happy with the rules committee for the way that they set up the course.
They're gonna have 3 more chances to go at it assuming that they make the cut, but for right now it's been a bit of a tricky first round for a lot of the big names at the at the PGA Championship.
We'll see how it goes in the next 3 days from Charlotte, Jay Bussby for Yahoo Sports.
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