2025 PGA Championship takeaways: Bryson DeChambeau banging along as mud balls irk struggling stars in Round 1

Charlotte – There they stood in the middle of the corridor. The best two Americans in the game were mitigating their first rounds of the PGA 107 before, well, hitting the fan’s clay. The play of an original statesman was not near the top of the leaders, nor how a major championship was opened described as a large -scale race in Quail Hollow, which was the subject of the conversation. Instead, the organic matter was the same.

There was nothing natural about the shots they struck. Both Scotti Chevler and Xander Schauffle were surrounded (at best) when the second shots deviated to the left and in the water at the beginning of the green mile. Shifler in Bagman inhaled, Ted Scott, with a boiling boiling under the surface, while Choufil put his hand on his mouth, and some words muttered and looked at the box as if the duo knew exactly what would happen.

“It is one of these deals, as it is frustrated to reach the ball in the middle of the corridor and get clay and has no idea where it will go,” she said. “I understand that it is part of the game, but there is nothing more frustrated by the player. You spend your whole life trying to learn how to control a golf ball, and because of the decision’s decision, suddenly, do not control the place where this golf ball is going.”

On Thursday, the discussion of the golf championship turned into the conditions in which the golf was. This is a day with a sunny sky and a refreshing wind, barrier to you. Instead of discussing the golf game that played during one of the 16 most important rounds of the season, both sides.Should they play favorite lies?“The argument was heard. Shevler, Chauvili and Michael Kim were the most hiding, and there was nothing else on social media that had up to five clay balls during his tour.

Players are spoiled. It is an external sport, let them face some adversity because luck participates in the championship competition. This variable should not be presented, as it is punished for good shots; Luck is part of the equation but not so so. Both sides heard, and it is now time to go forward.

It should be the counselors – those who flourish in difficult circumstances – they should be the point of talking, not the circumstances themselves.

Thursday in Quail Hollow was A strange day in several ways, primarily on the leading board But also the general ocean in which it developed. The feelings were suspended, as children say. It was difficult to get roar around the golf course. Some of the stars seemed as if they were sleeping outside the bus, like the SEC football team members are about to face a program that was pushed to play the game.

Regardless of how it appears, regardless of his feeling, this main tournament remains, and it will go. He will be crowned a hero who deserves the Wanamaker Cup. It will decrease in history books and be referred to in the future. The drama will be produced as some of its competitors rise to the moment while others wither. It will continue.

After all, we are only 18 hole in the 2025 PGA championship, and there is still a lot of golf that has not yet been played. There are also a lot of fast food from round 1.

Tailor

On Wednesday morning, a pair of North Carolina’s products was unable to be in the ninth place in Quail Hollow. It was impossible to miss the sunglasses that Bin Griffin wore, as he identified the last PGA tour, but his playing partner remained a guess game. It ended being Ryan Gerrard, who proved to be one of the best names for leaders on Thursday.

With his father inside the rope line watching his shots, there was calm confidence in Gerard. However, this performance cannot imagine. The 25 -year -old played only two main championships before this week, but they say, the third time that enchanted it.

Girrard played Hollow in a way that reminds us of how to prepare the course. He was even on his first six holes and burned in the middle of his tour amid the flow of registration opportunities. He spent those opportunities, as he played expansion through No. 15 in a 7-ener way. Perhaps a ghost couple has made his dinner a little worse but not much when you are in the comfortable limits in your original condition.

“It is a nice thing when everyone chants,” said Gerard. “But this is great. I have seen a lot of people I know this week that I know that it will be here and only many people who wear light blue shirts, and everything there. It is a large family from the heels of the country where we all send to each other and support us, and I appreciate everything.”

Shifler’s accurate edge

It was almost a kick in the back. The beginning of Shifler was fortunate because the No. 1 world found himself in the second through his first six holes thanks to the 12 -ranked chips and converting the eagle from the Off the Green in No. 15. It was recognized that he was without the best things for him, and when the group set with the stars of the sixteenth green color with one or two but three of the double Bugs, he started to rotate.

Shevler achieved equal footing in the last two holes of The Green Mile and played his last nine holes in 2 below 2, the most prominent of which is two circles on the performance card in the last three holes. It ended in a wave-as it often did-thanks to a long laser laser in the difficult PAR-4 on the ninth front. He pushed different points in his game at different points on his tour, but what remains all the time is what still served as his greatest balance – his consistency between the two ears.

“As I said, I do not present the rules. I am dealing with the decisions of the rules,” she said. “I could have invited that day when I got a clay ball and cost me some shots. It was most likely to me on one hole, and if I left that bothering me, this may cost me five shots in the rest of the round. But today, I was proud to do so, I still there, and I did not leave it in getting some solid golf on the day when I was a lot in the place and beyond.”

It may not be the cruel start Which – which rough

Well, Rorre McLeroi has a early double ghost as he did in the master’s degree, so he may be in the form of a major championship. Only four corridors hit and get very lucky at some stages-especially Par-5 15-Mcilroy launched the opening of 74, making it for it The fourth round of work in Quail Hollow in his career, which includes four wins in this course. As for the 6 in Par-4 16th, it was the first double ghost in Mcilroy in Charlotte for nearly a decade and a half.

Mcilroy Strains Seven Strokes began last month from the pace by Justin Rose, and this tournament begins in the PGA 10 championship from the pace set by Jhonattan Vegas. Although similarities could be drawn, those opening efforts were barely as sharp in Ugusta National (and was mainly loose in Quail Hollow).

Good news? Although his driver was hit badly, although his loose ironing was hit, despite his short loss, and although he is sometimes he struggled around green, Mcilroy was only the worst one blow from the average field. It is only five strikes behind the preferred betrier, and he must look at it in the eyes of Friday, where they share again at the time of the second round.

The captain (s) played?

How is this for a cold Naggit? It was the only time that the Ryder Cup was among the top ten at the end of the major tournament round during the Rider Cup in the 1937 Open (Walter Hagin, Charles and Witkebi). Now Hagen and Whitcombe have a company because Kegan Bradey played his way to compete, but more surprisingly, as did the former scientist Locke Donald.

Donald 4 was not called it under his first round in a specialization since 2004 – he did this without a shot, which made him the only man in this field not putting a square on the performance card on Thursday. While Bradley is still the best 20 players in the world, and he was surrounded by ideas that are likely to serve as a playing captain, Donald has regained his second work as a major man for the Europeans. It was a coincidence, it was Donald who was the main man among Europeans on this leader.

“I am just going to [send him a text message]I will give [Luke Donald] “I will tell him how happy he is to play like this, and to go out – as you know, I do not know when it was the last time he played in a specialty. Well, he played here last year. But going out here and shooting 4 less on the first day in this session is impressive.”

Noise

Praison Deschambo was the most popular choice to win this championship with a wide margin, and early, it didn’t look great. However, Praison hung harshly as he often does at this stage. Fighting some of the distance control issues with his atmosphere in the first part of his tour, the US Open Champion turned into 1 and bent over his strike in the back.

Dechaambeau rolled into a pair of 10 to 15 feet-which was 64 % in his last eight rounds in Quail Hollow, which enters the week-before calling the correct number on the difficult PAR-3. After abandoning ACE near a ghost on the final hole, which happened to the best, Dechambeau dance in the club on an equal footing and in the same position in which he entered the week – the right Shifler on the most likely plate.

Gravity leaders

For the second time since 1994, there are no players within the top 10 of the leading plate at the end of a round that was ranked in the first ten rank of official global golf rankings. It is a selective handful, an island of Misfit games, and Smorgasbord is full of flavors from almost every corner of the world. The United Nations Conference erupted.

Will you continue? There may not be a name on the first page of the leading painting that draws fear in the eyes of competitors, but there is more than a lot of knees. Sheffler, Victor Hofland, John Ram, Colin Maurica, Ludwig Oberg and Dhashambo are all equal or better. They all remain in the picture to upload the Wanamaker Cup.

Green tendency

There was a lot of rain and there were a lot of opinions, but there was no benefit in denial of Quail Hollow their teeth on Thursday. The golf stadium played about 2, and this was largely due to a handful of holes, including the famous green inclination. The end of the end of the three hole resulted in only 29 birds against 194 ghosts, 27 double ghosts, or worse. Play No. 16 as the most difficult hole in the golf course and Par-3 17th was far away.

Cake

A final note on Mud Ball Mahaem (TM), which occurred on Thursday, is the description of Choufley of the conditions that move forward. Referring to the way the corridors will dry out, the defense champion described it as a “perfect cake area” more favorable to it – let’s only invite them – profit periods.

“The clay balls will get worse. This was not your question, but they will get worse with the dryness of the plays,” said Choufley. “They will get the ideal cake area to where there is a kind of muddy under it and then pick up the clay on the way. I mean, you only do not know, maybe you hit it a little from the starting point, but unfortunately, the problem is to hit it in the operating position, this cannot carry the ball anywhere, so you are clear from the distance. Be okay.”