PGA Championship: Big hitters can prosper down the Straits

As exciting as it was to finally get the US PGA Championship underway yesterday, I found all the waffle and verbal tripe annoying. Talking for the sake of talking is boring and for a game that is haemorrhaging membership numbers in the US and in Europe, the conversation could have been a little more informed at times too.

Of course these are early days, tournament-wise and the broadcasters are trying to fill time but rather than looking at Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth hitting hundreds of practice shots, why not analyse in detail the course set-up, or the key holes that the players faced in yesterday afternoon’s more testing conditions for the viewers?

Rant aside; yesterday morning’s ideal weather conditions proved the soft course conditions and a relatively easy set-up meant the course, more particularly the back nine, were there to be plundered by the big hitters.