PGA Championship 2016 Leaderboard: Latest Scores and Standings from Thursday

The PGA Championship may give Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson each the opportunity to put their signature on the current golf year.

Johnson won the U.S. Open by overcoming personal demons, hitting long, straight drives and knocking in birdie putts to get the best of the field at Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Stenson was even better in taking the British Open, firing a final round of 63 to get the best of runner-up Phil Mickelson and take home the Claret Jug.

If either of them can win the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, this weekend, it will mark their second major of the year and give that golfer a legitimate claim on being the best player of the year.

Those two are playing together in the opening two rounds at Baltusrol, along with surprise Masters champion Danny Willett, who could also claim his second major with a victory here. The Englishman is a strong player, but he is not quite in the class of Johnson or Stenson.

Willett ranks 59th in FedEx Cup points, while the American is first and the Swede is 15th in that category.

Baltusrol is a course that favors long hitters, but that won’t be enough to get the job done. The course features huge greens, and if players don’t get their approach shots close to the pin, they have a much better chance of three-putting than they do at other major venues.

The greens …

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