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Discipline is key at PGA Championship | Daily Tribune

Discipline is key at PGA Championship

If you can get those up-and-downs, it’s not only a confidence booster, but it’s something that will keep the round going

Agence France-Presse·18 May 2023, 12:20 am·1 MIN READ

Discipline is key at PGA Championship — ROCHESTER, NEW YORK - MAY 16: (L-R) Coach Michael Bannon and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland talk during a practice round prior to the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club on May 16, 2023 in Rochester, New York. Michael Reaves/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael Reaves / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

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A field of 156 players, 16 of them from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League, chase the Wanamaker Trophy at Oak Hill, where discipline and patience will be as vital as any club.

"Discipline is going to be a huge factor this week," McIlroy said. "You've got to keep it out of those fairway bunkers."

"If someone can keep their discipline and not start firing at those pins and know that middles of the greens is a pretty good leave on most holes, I think that's (key)."

Oak Hill offers tricky pin locations with thick rough and shifting tee box areas to make every challenge unique.

"Discipline is a really good way to describe what one needs this week," Rahm said. "It's challenging, but it's one of those where if you hit the shots you're supposed to hit — put it in the fairway, go to the center of the green — nothing crazy should be happening."

"If you can get those up-and-downs, it's not only a confidence booster, but it's something that will keep the round going."

Rahm, the 2021 US Open champion, captured his fourth title of the year and second major last month at the Masters.

Rahm is an oddsmakers' co-favorite alongside second-ranked American Scottie Scheffler, who would overtake the Spaniard with a victory.

If Rahm wins, he would be halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam and only a British Open shy of a career Slam.

"It doesn't happen often that a player wins more than one major in a year," Rahm said. "So it would be amazing to be able to join my name to that list."

Only five players in the past 70 years have won the first two majors of a season, the most recent being Spieth in 2015.

Spieth, who would complete a career Slam by winning the PGA, tested his injured left wrist during a workout Tuesday and a nine-hole practice round with Rahm.

The 29-year-old American is set to start Thursday morning alongside Norway's Viktor Hovland and Irishman Shane Lowry, but his status for the event remains uncertain.

McIlroy took a mental health break after missing the cut at last month's Masters and played only one PGA tuneup.

"I needed it at the time," McIlroy said. "Whether it works this week or not remains to be seen."

The four-time major winner said he has lowered expectations to better deal with whatever golf sends his way.

"Just trying to be in a good spot with taking what comes," he said.

And should that fifth major title never come, so be it.

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