- Day one updates from Valhalla, the second major of year
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The PGA Championship likes to throw up a leftfield winner every now and then – Mark Brooks won here at Valhalla in 1996, to pluck one example from the ether – so why not this year? The usual suspects are the favourites to succeed, but consider: Scottie Scheffler has just become a dad, Rory McIlroy has just announced his divorce, Jon Rahm is going through a tour-based existential crisis, and defending champ Brooks Koepka has put himself through some “punishment workouts” in the hope of resharpening his competitive edge. So maybe it’s major breakout time for, say, Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay or Tommy Fleetwood? Could be, could be.
Then again, Scheffler has won four of the last five tournaments he’s entered, coming tied for second in the other, a run that’s landed him the Players and the Masters; Rory has won on his last two outings; Rahm’s year-long tournament drought can’t last forever; and Koepka is also coming off the back of a victory, and he’s lifted the Wanamaker Trophy three times in the last six years. So, y’know.
