
Dovizioso: "Si la situación no mejora, Marc Márquez tendrá que retirarse"
Dovizioso advierte que Márquez podría tener que retirarse si su situación no mejora.
Rory McIlroy and other golfers criticize the challenging setup of the PGA Championship course at Aronimink Golf Club. Shane Lowry humorously remarked that the pin placements were extremely difficult.
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee said it best: “It ain’t a major until you’ve got some bitching, and we’ve got some bitching now.”
Some moaning and whining too.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry had the line of the day, telling The Irish Times, “I felt like every pin was on the bonnet of a car.”
Aronimink Golf Club and its pesky crowned Donald Ross greens (restored by Gil Hanse) are full of tilt, shoulders and subtle movements that keep players guessing.
Rory McIlroy reacts on the 15th hole during the second round of the 2026 PGA Championship.
It didn’t help the pros that it was another bitter cold morning and the wind played havoc with anything less than a precise shot. Scottie Scheffler bogeyed three of the first four holes. Lowry cold-topped, semi-shanked one into a pond. A case of three putts spread faster than the hantavirus. Rory McIlroy, who played in warmer and calmer conditions in the afternoon, shot a bogey-free 67 and continued to take shots at the course.
“I think it's a sign of not a great setup, I think when it's as bunched as it is, because it hasn't really enabled anyone to separate themselves,” he said. “It's like, you know, it's easy to make a ton of pars, hard to make birdies, and not that it's hard to make bogey, but it feels like bogey's the worst score you're going to shoot on any one hole.”
Bogeys were plentiful on Friday, as the course played to a scoring average of 72.609, and adding to the tough conditions was a setup aimed at protecting par.
“Some of the pin positions are just, like honestly (so difficult). I feel like we’re pretty good at looking at a course and finding out where the pins are going to be and if my coach threw down the plate on a few of those I would have laughed at him,” ranted Lowry. “I know a couple of guys are shooting good scores or whatever, but I’ve never had so many 15-footers that I felt like I could putt off the green. Everyone else will say, ‘Oh, yeah, of course, you’re going to moan because you shot 76,’ but it’s very hard.”
He wasn’t alone in this observation. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler called the pins "kind of absurd," and highlighted a questionable hole location at the par-3 14th, which played as the toughest hole in the second round.
Rory McIlroy criticized the challenging setup of the PGA Championship course, expressing frustration over its difficulty.
Shane Lowry described the pin placements as being so difficult that it felt like they were 'on the bonnet of a car.'
The greens at Aronimink Golf Club are known for their crowned design and subtle movements, which create challenges for players.
The greens at Aronimink Golf Club were restored by golf course architect Gil Hanse.

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“That was one of the craziest pins that I’ve seen,” said Scheffler, who shot 71. “Your ball wasn’t going to roll off 50 yards away, but that was like they put the pin on this microphone, it was just like, a high point. I hadn’t seen anything like it.”
Scheffler felt lucky to make his 3 ½-foot par putt at 14, while the other two members of his group made double bogey with Matt Fitzpatrick suffering a four putt.
Chris Gotterup, who shot 65, the low round of the day and the championship so far, tried to be diplomatic when asked about the course setup.
“I’m going to try to answer this properly,” he said. “I don’t think it’s unfair by any stretch of the imagination, but you’re not going to get any 4-1/2 hour rounds out here if that’s what they, if that’s what’s going to happen.”
Now the question is what will the PGA’s course whisperer Kerry Haigh present for the third act at Aronimink on Saturday?
McIlroy suggested that scoring may improve even as the weather warms and the greens get crispy and the fairways more bouncy.
“I feel like they have really tried to protect the course the first couple of days. So it seems like they have used up a lot of the really hard ones,” he said of the pin positions.
Lowry had one suggestion for the course setup, saying, “This is a great golf course, there’s no point in trying to trick it up.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Rory McIlroy rips PGA Championship course setup and he's not alone