“It stinks”, Spieth said.
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Almost every player at the Bridgestone Invitational this week has qualified for the PGA Championship. Eight of the last 11 winners are multiple major champions.
Johnson remains one of the favorites next week at Whistling Straits. Still in play is the “American Slam” – no one has ever won the three U.S. majors in the same season.
Certainly he will not be concerned by the warnings from the likes of Colin Montgomerie and Notah Begay, Tiger Woods’s closest confidante, about coming back too soon.
Spieth won’t be going for golf’s grand slam at the PGA because he did not win the British Open, but he still can join an elite group.
REDEMPTION FOR DJ: Dustin Johnson has had at least a share of the lead in four of the 12 rounds at major championships this year, just not on Sunday.
McIlroy, whose injury ruled him out of defending his British Open title last month at St. Andrews, posted a picture of the interior of a private jet with a British passport front and centre on a table.
But redemption goes beyond this year.
PGA of America championship director Kerry Haigh confirmed in an email Thursday evening that the spot where Johnson grounded his club will not be in play this year. After making bogey, he was assessed a two-shot penalty that kept him out of the playoff.
The $1.5 million winner’s share this week certainly elevates the Bridgestone in players’ minds, as dos the Firestone Country Club’s South Course. He said later he didn’t realize it was a bunker.
Bradley won the PGA Championship in 2011, while Fowler is still seeking his first major championship after a couple of near misses in 2014.
McIlroy – and his injured ankle – will receive plenty of attention next week at Whistling Straits, where he finished one shot out of a playoff in 2010.
With under a week to go until the first round of the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, groupings and tee times have been revealed and there are some serious fireworks.
Vijay Singh won in 2004 over Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco.
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Johnson won his second major at the Open Championship and will look to make it two in a row next week.
