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By DOUG FERGUSON<\/strong> AP Golf Writer<\/p>\n

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. \u2014 Scottie Scheffler missed a 4-foot putt and laughed. Jon Rahm angrily swung his club after an errant shot and the grass divot hit a volunteer in the face. Garrick Higgo was 10 seconds late to the first tee and penalized two shots before he even swung a club.<\/p>\n

Aronimink waited 64 years to host another PGA Championship and made up for lost time in a big way on Thursday, including the biggest logjam in a major championship since 1969.<\/p>\n

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When the long day was over, most predictable was seeing Scheffler\u2019s name atop the leaderboard at 3-under-par 67, along with six other players. Another surprise: It\u2019s the first time the world\u2019s top-ranked player has at least a share of the lead after 18 holes in a major.<\/p>\n

Scheffler wasn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it a really a lead when you\u2019re tied with like six guys?\u201d he told ESPN with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Scheffler took advantage of two long birdie putts and one big break on the 17th hole for his lowest start to a tournament since January. He was tied with six others \u2013 former PGA champion Martin Kaymer perhaps the most surprising \u2013 on a tough day in the Philadelphia suburbs.<\/p>\n

Joining them at 67 were Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaeger, Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune and Alex Smalley. The seven-way tie was the largest since nine players shared the lead in the 1969 PGA Championship at NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt this moment, it\u2019s anybody\u2019s tournament,\u201d Scheffler said. Indeed, 48 players were within three shots of the lead. The difference between missing the cut and being part of the lead was six shots.<\/p>\n

And to think it could have been eight players. Higgo had a 69, which included a two-shot penalty before he even hit a shot for being 10 seconds late to the tee for his group\u2019s starting time.<\/p>\n

Masters champion\u00a0Rory McIlroy bogeyed his last four holes\u00a0for a 74 that sent him to the practice range for most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Not since Oakland Hills in 2008 \u2013 Jeev Milkha Singh and Robert Karlsson at 2-under 68 \u2013 has the low score to par after the first round of the PGA Championship been worse than 3 under. Aronimink with its severely sloped greens, fast fairways and plenty of wind that shooed away morning clouds was every bit a major challenge.<\/p>\n

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Scheffler has struggled with opening rounds for most of the year since opening with a 63 in his season debut at The American Express, his only victory. But this was quality work. He missed only one fairway, which cost him one of his two bogeys on the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely the best start I\u2019ve gotten off to this year, maybe besides American Express,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cYour scores are definitely going to be lower if you hit the ball on the fairway, but it\u2019s still really, really difficult to make birdies.\u201d<\/p>\n

He made one from just inside 40 feet on the par-4 seventh, and another birdie from just inside 30 feet on the par-4 10th. And even the No. 1 player in the world needed a little help.<\/p>\n

Scheffler was in the thick collar of rough to the right of the par-3 17th, facing a chip over a ridge and down toward the hole. But his golf ball was close enough to a sprinkler cap that he was given free relief, dropped on the fringe and putted it to close range for a par.<\/p>\n

Kaymer won the PGA Championship in 2010 at Whistling Straits, giving him a lifetime exemption. Kaymer joined LIV Golf in 2022 and has yet to finish in the top 10 in the few European tour events he has played since then. He is No. 1,160 in the world ranking. He hasn\u2019t been in the top 10 after one round of any major since the 2020 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

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During the champions dinner on Tuesday, he said one PGA of America officer asked the German if he planned to play this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s why I\u2019m here. I\u2019m not flying from Europe to here to have a New York strip with you guys, you know?\u2019 Of course, I\u2019m playing. And that really motivated me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Reed was the only player who made it around Aronimink without a bogey, his two birdies giving him a 68 and in the large group with Xander Schauffele and Shane Lowry, who played the two par-5s in 3 under.<\/p>\n

Jordan Spieth, lacking only the PGA Championship for the career Grand Slam, bogeyed two of his last three holes \u2013 and did not birdie the par-5 ninth, the easiest hole at Aronimink \u2013 to join the group at 69 that included Brooks Koepka, Rahm and Justin Thomas.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust didn\u2019t quite finish the way I wanted to the last three holes, but under par was a good score,\u201d Spieth said. \u201cIt was blowing really hard, and it was cold this morning. The course played very, very difficult. It was a good start. I\u2019m going to need to improve on it, I think, each day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rahm was headed for another rough start in a major until he holed out for eagle from the 11th fairway, chipped in for birdie on the tough par-3 eighth and shot 69. He was told some people thought scoring would be better in the morning. This surprised him.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople thought it would be lower?\u201d he replied. \u201cHave you been out there? Have you seen this course?\u201d<\/p>\n

McIlroy had the toughest finish. He struggled out of the damp, dense rough. He struggled on the greens. He closed with four straight bogeys and described his round in one word that translates loosely to doo-doo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just not driving the ball well enough. It\u2019s been a problem all year for the most part,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cI miss it right, and then I want to try to correct it. And then I\u2019ll overdo it, and I\u2019ll miss it left. It\u2019s a little bit of back and forth that way. So that\u2019s pretty frustrating, especially when I pride myself on driving the ball well.\u201d<\/p>\n

He hit only five of the 14 fairways. He was in the short grass on No. 1 after making the turn. He played from the rough the rest of the round. McIlroy was in the hay right of the seventh hole and could only manage to hack that across the fairway into more rough on the left, leaving him 15 feet for par that he didn\u2019t convert.<\/p>\n

His final hole was the par-5 ninth, another drive that sailed right. From there, he put it in the worst spot \u2013 a bunker 67 yards from the pin \u2013 and barely got that onto the green, leaving him 70 feet a way for birdie. He ran that 8 feet by and missed it coming back.<\/p>\n

No one struggled quite like Bryson DeChambeau, who didn\u2019t make a birdie until he ended on the par-5 ninth. That kept him from matching his highest score in the PGA Championship. He shot 76 and now has to work toward avoiding a second straight missed cut in a major.<\/p>\n

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