Scottie Scheffler said after Thursday’s round, in relation to the field playing the ball down at Quail Hollow, that he didn’t like how a player could be punished (with a mud ball) after hitting the middle of the fairway.
Shane Lowry found more than a little mud on the eighth hole Friday at the PGA Championship. And he more than expressed his frustration.
Lowry’s tee shot on the par-4 landed in the fairway but finished in a pitch mark. Had it been Lowry’s pitch mark or had they been playing preferred lies, he could have cleaned and replaced his ball.