When it comes to predicting the winner of the PGA Championship, I could go a lot of directions. As I usually do. Like a toddler hopped up on too much popcorn and cotton candy at the circus, I eventually get around to throwing up on my shoes,

Players rave about it when they come every year, but for the course architecture heads and the peripheral golf community, the glass is very much half empty on this week’s PGA Championship venue. So why is the divide so stark?