It’s rare that the second major championship of a given season feels as climactic as the one about to begin in Kentucky.
A bevy of different circumstances have a handful of the sport’s titans soaring into Valhalla in full flight. There’s golf’s inevitable force, Scottie Scheffler, returning to action following the birth of he and wife Meredith’s first child. He’s won four of his last five tournaments, with only impending fatherhood and Stephan Jaeger slowing him down in any way.
There’s Rory McIlroy, returning to the site of his last major victory. When the golf world left Louisville a decade ago, it was inconceivable that Rory would still be sitting on four major wins in 2024. But just like in 2014, McIlroy enters this PGA coming off back-to-back wins on the PGA Tour. Flying in off a LIV win in Singapore is defending champ Brooks Koepka, only adding more lighter fluid to the dry timber poised to ignite.
Here are the top numbers and notes to know entering the 2024 PGA Championship:
1. If you’d like a good pre-championship laugh, peruse Scheffler’s PGA Tour statistics page when you get the opportunity. Below is a collection of just some of the stats the new dad leads the Tour in this season:
• Birdie average
• Bogey avoidance
• Scoring average
• Strokes…
