Scottie Scheffler Targets Aronimink Form Guide — How To Watch Pga Championship
Scottie Scheffler arrives at the how to watch pga championship after three straight runner-up finishes, and the timing is sharp because the second major championship of the year is at Aronimink Golf Club. He has also shown better ball-striking, which gives him a different look than the player who kept finishing second.
Scheffler’s rebound at Aronimink
Scheffler won his first start at The American Express by four strokes, then finished runner-up at the Masters before another run of three straight second-place finishes. He is top 10 off the tee, around the green, and tee-to-green, with a 14th-place ranking in putting. The one number that stands out most is approach, where he is 42nd after three consecutive seasons of finishing No. 1.
That drop in approach play is the only real friction point in his profile entering the week. His results still show a player who keeps putting himself in position, but the iron game has not matched the standard he set over the previous three seasons.
Aronimink’s small sample
Aronimink Golf Club is hosting the PGA Championship this week in the Philadelphia metro area, and the PGA TOUR has not been there in eight years. The course has hosted only three major men's tournaments in the last 17 years, which makes the field’s shared history with the venue thin.
Only two players in this week’s field played in all three of Aronimink’s recent major men's tournaments: Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler. Rose won in his course debut at the 2010 AT&T National by four strokes, returned in 2011 and finished T15, then lost a playoff to Keegan Bradley at the 2018 BMW Championship after a putt to win on the 72nd hole lipped out. The week after that loss, Rose won the FedExCup and reached world No. 1 for the first time.
Justin Rose at Aronimink
Mark Blackburn called Rose “He’s a savant when it comes to how you strategically play a course.” That is the kind of profile Aronimink has rewarded before, with Rose also winning twice at Torrey Pines and remaining an annual contender at Augusta National.
For Scheffler, the practical read is simple: the form is there, but the approach numbers are the one area that no longer look untouchable. Aronimink offers a rare major-stage test for a course with limited recent history, and the players who have seen it before carry a useful edge into a week when iron play can separate contenders from everyone else.
