PGA Championship: Potgieter leads alongside Scheffler after opening day

It is a stacked leaderboard with a number of players in striking distance of the men out in front. Rising South African star Aldrich Potgieter shared the lead after the first round of the year’s second Major, the PGA Championship, at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania following Thursday’s opening round. The 21-year-old fired an opening round three-under-par 67 which included three birdies and three bogeys.

PGA Championship: Potgieter leads alongside Scheffler after opening day. It is a stacked leaderboard with a number of players in striking distance of the men out in front. Rising South African star Aldrich Potgieter shared the lead after the first round of the year’s second Major, the PGA Championship, at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania following Thursday’s opening round. The 21-year-old fired an opening round three-under-par 67 which included three birdies and three bogeys. “I definitely left myself in really good positions on the green, made some long putts, so it was nice the putter was warm,” Potgieter told reporters afterwards. He shared the lead with six others at three-under-par, including defending PGA champion, Scottie Scheffler. The next-best South African, on a stacked leaderboard, was Garrick Higgo, who recovered from bein...