But given the way he subjugated both the Ocean Course and the field, that's hard to believe.
The PGA Championship, the last golf major of the year, starts on Thursday at the Ocean Course in Kiawah.
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McIlroy has failed to mount a lasting challenge in the majors since his remarkable win at Congressional last June, but was also happy with his efforts after not dropping a shot on the Ocean Course.
It may seem peevish to complain that the course generally acknowledged as the toughest in America (the Ocean Course's Slope rating is 155 and its course rating is 79.6 from the extreme tips) is not tough enough, but the truth is that, for the pros, Dye's masterpiece can be had.
It's hard to pinpoint the moment exactly, amid the echoing cheers and crashing surf at the Ocean Course here, but while an aging Woods was battling demons and salvaging pars three groups ahead, the youthful McIlroy was posting birdies, banging drives 60 yards past his peers and conjuring short-game magic the way Woods used to do.
The three ocean course attempts will be monitored by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
There are the usual water sports on its ocean side, of course, and snorkeling in the lagoons.
The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said the airliner and the C-17 were put on a collision course in the dark over the Atlantic Ocean about 88 miles off New York after controllers mistakenly instructed the planes to converge in the same area.
Skilled navigators, they plotted their course by the stars, ocean and clouds, at a time when god-fearing Europeans still believed that the Earth was flat and they might fall off it if they sailed too far.
The thrilling nature of Bradley's victory at the Atlanta Athletic Club propelled him into the limelight, and he heads for Kiawah Island's Ocean Course with experience in three more majors under his belt.
"This meant that the slates which were already being exported on a smaller scale from Blaenau Ffestiniog, could be loaded onto much bigger ocean-going ships inside a sheltered harbour... and of course in 1836 the railway is bringing slates down, " he said.
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