Dustin Johnson keeps the peace as all around him fret

So we have arrived at that point in the professional golf schedule that generated so much consternation months ago, even going back to 2015.

It was said by an endless line of players that come late July and early August there would be a frantic pace unlike anything the sport has ever known, and now that we’re here, suffice to say the lads were correct.

When the 98th PGA Championship — pushed up two weeks on the calendar to accommodate Olympic golf — gets under way Thursday at Baltusrol Golf Club, it will mark the third major championship in seven weeks.