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KIAWAH ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA | A sense of the unknown rode the breezes buffeting the Ocean Course on Tuesday as prep work for the PGA Championship intensified in advance of the year’s second major.
The Ocean Course presents a steep and unique learning curve.
The wind is going to blow. The question is how hard.
Big numbers are going to be made in the canals and dunes that sit like ears on the face of every hole. The question is how big and by whom.
For Jordan Spieth, who shares the pre-tournament favorite role with Rory McIlroy, he spent Tuesday building his own book of knowledge, having arrived late and with no true sense of what awaits him this week.
When the PGA Championship was played here nine years ago, Spieth had just lost in the match-play portion of the U.S. Amateur and was heading back to the University of Texas where he was debating when to turn pro.
Just when it seemed Spieth was cresting another hilltop with his slump-busting victory in the Valero Texas Open in April, he contracted COVID-19 a month ago and spent three weeks doing nothing.
Not exactly ideal preparation for a course considered among the hardest in the game.
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