Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler gripe about Aronimink during PGA Championship

Aronimink Golf Membership has been a pleasant host of the 2026 PGA Championship, however superstars Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler aren’t thrilled with the setup. The highest two golfers within the Official World Golf Rating publicly bashed the golf course after the second spherical.

Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler converse out towards Aronimink

“I feel it is a signal of not an awesome setup,” McIlroy stated after his 3-under 67 on Friday, per Golfweek. “I feel when it is as bunched as it’s, as a result of it hasn’t actually enabled anybody to separate themselves, it is easy to make a ton of pars, exhausting to make birdies, and never that it is exhausting to make bogey, nevertheless it appears like bogey’s the worst rating you are going to shoot on anybody gap.”

To McIlroy’s level, solely two gamers have reached 4-under par by way of two rounds. After 36 holes, there are 43 gamers inside 5 pictures of the lead. 

The largest cause why no elite participant has separated from the pack has been the difficult pin areas arrange by the PGA of America. Based on Scheffler, they’re among the hardest he is ever seen. 

“There’s additionally just a few issues which can be out of your management,” Scheffler told reporters after his second-round 71. “You simply bought to proceed to attempt to hit good pictures, and many of the pins at present have been, I imply, form of absurd. They have been simply to date into the areas the place we thought the pins have been going to be, after which they simply—just like the one on 14 was most likely the toughest pin that I’ve seen in a very long time simply because, I imply, there’s actually identical to a backbone and so they’re like, ‘Oh, we’ll simply put the pin proper on high of it.’ And you are like, ‘Alright, nicely, I am going to see what I can do.’ And simply , simply difficult.”