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PGA Championship Day 1 doesn't feel like a major. It feels bleak.

If the PGA of America was going to put another PGA Championship at Quail Hollow – a course golf fans see every year on the regular Tour – we should at least be able to expect a leaderboard equal to the Truist Championship.

Instead, we got a Puerto Rico Open – only without the bathing suits and pinu0303a coladas.

Are we really supposed to believe this is a major?

No offense to Cam Davis, Ryan Gerard, Ryan Fox, Alex Smalley and Stephan Jaeger – golfers who have four PGA Tour wins among them – but the first day of the PGA Championship did not exactly draft off the excitement of last month’s Masters.