PGA Championship 2024: The big questions for the final round - ESPN

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Valhalla Golf Club has done it again. For all the griping about low scores and lack of strategy, the venue that has hosted some of the most thrilling PGA Championships has set the stage for yet another electric Sunday.

Not only are two players tied for the 54-hole lead, but 13 others are just 5 shots back and six are within 3 strokes. Of those 15 players inside the top 10, 10 are looking for their first major victory, while the rest are hoping to add to their totals.

Just like in 2000 when Tiger Woods beat Bob May in a playoff or like we witnessed in 2014 when Rory McIlroy came storming back to win his fourth major, Sunday's final round looks to have plenty of ingredients to provide yet another classic.

Here are five questions ahead of the final 18 holes:

Paolo Uggetti: Unsurprisingly, Justin Thomas, who's from Louisville, has explained the phenomenon of Valhalla well this week. Between the soft greens due to rain and the way the golf course forces the best players in the world to play it a single way (drive it well, putt it great) in order to succeed, Valhalla inevitably causes a leaderboard bottleneck.

«It just doesn't matter what golf course you put us on, on planet Earth,» Thomas said. «If the greens are soft, we're going to tear it up. It just doesn't have anything to defend itself.»

And tear it up they have. 15 players are double-digits under par heading into Sunday — more than twice as many as there ever have been at a major championship. Two players, Shane Lowry and Xander Schauffele, have shot major-low rounds already this week thanks to hot putting performances, and it feels like the winner Sunday will be determined by who can catch fire on the greens.

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