The second day of the US PGA Championship crystallised what was already becoming clear: Aronimink is a course for the golfers who adapt the quickest.<\/b><\/p>\n
Maybe there should be little surprise that Maverick McNealy, an intelligent but unheralded American who once considered snubbing golf for a business career, is leading the way.<\/p>\n
Just like on day one, the majority of the world’s leading players were again left befuddled and bemused by a punishing course set-up.<\/p>\n
Those who were able to think strategically and problem solve were rewarded. <\/p>\n
The later starters, including McNealy and Rory McIlroy, were also able to take advantage of slightly more benign conditions in the late evening sun.<\/p>\n
McIlroy’s pre-tournament prediction of being able to take the sting out of Pennsylvania course by smashing his driver as far as he could proved wide of the mark in a disappointing opening round.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Masters champion demonstrated his ability to reconfigure and bounced back with one of only two bogey-free rounds – a three-under 67 which left him one over par and five shots behind the leaders.<\/p>\n
Given the volatile nature of this tournament, McIlroy knows the value of his unflustered round.<\/p>\n
“It was a day to get back into the tournament and that’s what I managed to do,” McIlroy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second day of the US PGA Championship crystallised what was already becoming clear: Aronimink is a course…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-799431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}