Justin Thomas got off to a poor start on Thursday at the PGA Championship, but he saved his round with a couple of incredible saves on the second nine.

Curtis Strange made one last impassioned plea. Well, two, technically. "Don't do it," Strange said while watching Justin Thomas debate whether or not to play his third shot at Quail Hollow's 18th hole on Thursday.

About a month removed from his epic completion of the career grand slam, Rory McIlroy begins a new phase of his career this week. That its genesis comes at Quail Hollow is a perfect fit: it’s the site of his first PGA Tour victory in 2010,