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Oakland Hills grudgingly gave up low scores in the opening round of the 90th PGA Championship on Thursday. "The Monster," as Ben Hogan called the long and difficult course, also refused to let anyone pull away. Retief Goosen, a player with a game built for difficult layouts, birdied three of the first four holes but bogeys on Nos.
By John Nestor PA SportsTicker Golf Editor
This was the time for American players on the bubble for making the Ryder Cup team to make a statement. It wasn't what Hunter Mahan had in mind. Mahan is 10th in the standings -- only the top eight qualify after the PGA Championship -- and he got off to a rugged start with a double bogey. It didn't get much better.
Play was
suspended in Thursday's opening round of the U.S. PGA
Championship at 1733 local time (2133 GMT) due to the threat of
lightning.
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan (Ticker) - The son of 'The Flying Sikh' made a flying start at the PGA Championship on Thursday.
Jeev Milkha Singh travels the planet to play golf, trying to make a name for himself along the way. It has been a challenge. The 36-year-old from India is often mistaken as being a relative of Vijay Singh, or even the 45-year-old Fijian himself. In his own family, he's overshadowed by his father, Milkha Singh, an Olympic sprinter in 1960.
Britain's Lee
Westwood lambasted organisers for an unfair course set-up after
sliding to a seven-over-par 77 in the U.S. PGA Championship
opening round on Thursday.
Sergio Garcia
hit only four of 14 fairways on Thursday yet stayed near the top
of the leaderboard with a one-under-par 69 in the first round of
the PGA Championship.
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