Bryson DeChambeau cleaned up his round at the PGA Championship, nearly made a hole-in-one, but still did not finish in red figures.

Scheffler is only three shots back of the leaders entering Friday, and given all the unknown players at the top, he can be viewed as the PGA Championship favorite in his current position.

The novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said that "artistic originality has only its own self to copy," and if we're adapting that man's words to the world of golf—I'm confident he would have hated this—we can say of the infamous "Green Mile" at Quail Hollow (holes 16,

McIlroy struggled to a three-over-par 74 to trail clubhouse leaders Cam Davis and Ryan Gerard – a North Carolina native – by eight shots, with Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald surprisingly a shot off the pace alongside Aaron Rai, Ryan Fox, Alex Smalley and Stephan Jaeger.

The first round of the PGA Championship officially teed off Thursday at Quail Hollow - though long before the tournament began, the crew affectionately known as “The Swampers,” spent months preparing the course.

The PGA of America smartly created a mega group for the first two rounds of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, putting together Scheffler, the World No. 1, with the next two men in the rankings, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele.

The story coming into the 2025 PGA Championship was the hype around the top 3 stars in the world -- Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau -- all arriving at the year's second major in great form and coming off of recent wins.