Europe team Ryder Cup skipper Luke Donald has talked about the conditions at the 2025 PGA Championship. The Quail Hollow Golf Club is hosting this week’s Major, and Scottie Scheffler struggled with his game while playing with mud balls. He made a double bogey on the 16th hole.
Luke Donald was asked about the mud balls conditions in the post-round press conference, and he responded that he “didn’t have any mud balls.”
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Donald said (via ASAP Sports):
“I didn’t have any mud balls, per se. When it starts to dry out even more, you could get some this afternoon. It was tricky. I was a little bit surprised yesterday when I heard the news yesterday evening just because of how wet it was, but it had dried out quite well, to be honest.”
“Two times I had to take casual relief from the fairway, which helped. You know, you can clean it. The rest of the time, it was just sort of a watery, muddy residue on it, at times. It wasn’t really lumps of mud, which that’s when it gets very dicey.”
Top finishes after the first 18 holes at the 2025 PGA Championship:
- 1 – Jhonattan Vegas (-7)
- T2 – Ryan Gerard (-5)
- T2 – Cam Davis (-5)
- T4 – Luke Donald (-4)
- T4 – Ryan Fox (-4)
- T4 – Alex Smalley (-4)
- T4 – Stephan Jaeger (-4)
- T4 – Aaron Rai (-4)
- T9 – Alex Noren (-3)
- T9 – J. T. Poston (-3)
- T9 – Ryo Hisatsune (-3)
- T9 – Nico Echavarria (-3)
- T9 – Matt Fitzpatrick (-3)
- T9 – Robert MacIntyre (-3)
- T9 – Rasmus Hojgaard (-3)
- T9 – Keegan Bradley (-3)
- T9 – Tyrrell Hatton (-3)
- T9 – Michael Thorbjornsen (-3)
- T9 – Rafael Campos (-3)
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Luke Donald at PGA Championship 2025
Donald said (via ASAP Sports) in the post-round press conference.
“Obviously very pleased with the score, bogey-free in a major. Someone just told me it was the lowest first round in a major I’ve had since 2004 or something. “
2nd round of the 2025 PGA Championship
The second round of the 2025 PGA Championship will start at 7 a.m. ET on Friday, May 16, 2025. The game on Friday will kick off on the first tee hole, while on the tenth it will begin at 7:05 a.m. ET.
