2016 PGA Championship leaderboard: Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth struggle late at Baltusrol

Hey, remember when we told you yesterday how awesome the PGA Championship usually is because the set-up generally allows stars to excel and play like stars?

Uh, well, sorry. It’s usually like that, promise.

Baltusrol has traditionally produced big-name champions at the major events it has hosted. Jack Nicklaus won here twice, and Phil Mickelson took home the Wanamaker Trophy here in 2005 the last time it held a major championship. Thursday hasn’t yet produced those kinds of rounds from the game’s best players in the 98th PGA Championship. After Rory McIlroy’s 4-over 74 short-game struggle this morning, a number of big names joined him in the leaderboard’s toilet this afternoon.

Jordan Spieth doesn’t have a single birdie on his card yet on the day -- only a double-bogey 6 at the par-4 7th to show on his clean card of pars. He’s in a tie for 82nd right now. He’s playing alongside Bubba Watson, who’s turned in four straight bogeys after starting the day under par -- Watson’s at 3-over. He’s in a tie for 102nd. Things are even worse for U.S. Open Champion and second-ranked Dustin Johnson. He’s 6-over par with 6 holes still to play. Woooooooof.

Need context on how haywire things have gone for the stars at Baltusrol? Dustin Johnson was the betting favorite entering the tournament -- and he’s beating exactly seven players. Two of those seven are club professionals.

Things haven’t gone much better for other big names, either. Sergio Garcia’s at a middling 1-over, along with Phil Mickelson -- who’s in the clubhouse at 71. Open champion Henrik Stenson is 1-under. Rickie Fowler and world No. 1 Jason Day lead the way for the big names at 2-under, but both finished their rounds in the morning when the golf course was yielding a bit better scores.

Two-time major champion Martin Kaymer’s the sole big name making a move this afternoon. He’s just one shot off Jimmy Walker’s morning pace, and tied with Emiliano Grillo. After a major swing reconstruction, Kaymer hasn’t won since taking home his last major championship at the 2014 US Open.

Here’s a full leaderboard with a couple hours left in the opening round in Springfield.

1 -- Jimmy Walker -- -5
T2 -- Emiliano Grillo -- -4
T2 -- Ross Fisher -- -4
T2 -- Martin Kaymer -- -4
T5 -- Harris English -- -3
T5 -- James Hahn -- -3
T5 -- Andy Sullivan -- -3
T8 -- K.J. Choi -- -2
T8 -- David Lingmerth -- -2
T8 -- Rickie Fowler -- -2
T8 -- Scott Hend -- -2
T8 -- Brooks Koepka -- -2
T8 -- Vaughn Taylor -- -2
T8 -- Robert Streb -- -2
T8 -- Jason Day -- -2
T8 -- Jhonattan Vegas -- -2
T8 -- John Senden -- -2
T8 -- Russell Henley -- -2
T8 -- Young-han Song -- -2
T20 -- Bradley Dredge -- -1
T20 -- Jon Curran -- -1
T20 -- Hideki Matsuyama -- -1
T20 -- Chris Wood -- -1
T20 -- Victor Dubuisson -- -1
T20 -- Justin Thomas -- -1
T20 -- Paul Casey -- -1
T20 -- Lee Westwood -- -1
T20 -- Jamie Donaldson -- -1
T20 -- Gregory Bourdy -- -1
T20 -- Colt Knost -- -1
T20 -- Rich Beem -- -1
T20 -- Thomas Pieters -- -1
T20 -- Henrik Stenson -- -1
T34 -- Jason Kokrak -- E
T34 -- Brian Stuard -- E
T34 -- Aaron Baddeley -- E
T34 -- Branden Grace -- E
T34 -- Soren Kjeldsen -- E
T34 -- Adam Scott -- E
T34 -- Bill Haas -- E
T34 -- Yuta Ikeda -- E
T34 -- Andrew Johnston -- E
T34 -- Alexander Noren -- E
T34 -- Thorbjorn Olesen -- E
T34 -- Steve Stricker -- E
T34 -- Francesco Molinari -- E
T34 -- Byeong-Hun An -- E
T34 -- Kiradech Aphibarnrat -- E
T34 -- Russell Knox -- E
T34 -- Marc Leishman -- E
T34 -- William McGirt -- E
T34 -- Joost Luiten -- E
T34 -- Webb Simpson -- E
T34 -- Ryan Moore -- E
T34 -- Daniel Summerhays -- E
T56 -- Patton Kizzire -- 1
T56 -- Freddie Jacobson -- 1
T56 -- Jason Bohn -- 1
T56 -- Daniel Berger -- 1
T56 -- Tyrrell Hatton -- 1
T56 -- Kevin Kisner -- 1
T56 -- Zach Johnson -- 1
T56 -- Padraig Harrington -- 1
T56 -- Marcus Fraser -- 1
T56 -- Kevin Na -- 1
T56 -- Phil Mickelson -- 1
T56 -- Jamie Lovemark -- 1
T56 -- Hideto Tanihara -- 1
T56 -- Ryan Palmer -- 1
T56 -- Rob Labritz -- 1
T56 -- Danny Lee -- 1
T56 -- Jason Dufner -- 1
T56 -- Y.E. Yang -- 1
T56 -- Justin Rose -- 1
T56 -- Thongchai Jaidee -- 1
T56 -- Louis Oosthuizen -- 1
T56 -- Peter Malnati -- 1
T56 -- Kevin Streelman -- 1
T56 -- Bryce Molder -- 1
T56 -- Si Woo Kim -- 1
T81 -- Kristoffer Broberg -- 2
T81 -- Rafael Cabrera Bello -- 2
T81 -- Billy Hurley III -- 2
T81 -- Rikard Karlberg -- 2
T81 -- Roberto Castro -- 2
T81 -- Omar Uresti -- 2
T81 -- Greg Chalmers -- 2
T81 -- George Coetzee -- 2
T81 -- Ryan Helminen -- 2
T81 -- Nicolas Colsaerts -- 2
T81 -- Michael Block -- 2
T81 -- Harold Varner -- 2
T81 -- Johan Kok -- 2
T81 -- Kevin Chappell -- 2
T81 -- Scott Piercy -- 2
T81 -- Brendan Steele -- 2
T81 -- Jordan Spieth -- 2
T81 -- Sergio Garcia -- 2
T81 -- Patrick Reed -- 2
T81 -- Kyle Reifers -- 2
T81 -- Cameron Tringale -- 2
T102 -- Jeunghun Wang -- 3
T102 -- Matt Dobyns -- 3
T102 -- Ernie Els -- 3
T102 -- Brandt Snedeker -- 3
T102 -- Keegan Bradley -- 3
T102 -- Rod Perry -- 3
T102 -- Zac Blair -- 3
T102 -- David Muttitt -- 3
T102 -- Smylie Kaufman -- 3
T102 -- Gary Woodland -- 3
T102 -- Rich Berberian Jr. -- 3
T102 -- David Toms -- 3
T102 -- Matthew Fitzpatrick -- 3
T102 -- Anirban Lahiri -- 3
T102 -- Billy Horschel -- 3
T102 -- Luke Donald -- 3
T102 -- Shane Lowry -- 3
T102 -- Bubba Watson -- 3
T102 -- Danny Willett -- 3
T102 -- Soomin Lee -- 3
T102 -- Graeme McDowell -- 3
T102 -- Benjamin Polland -- 3
T102 -- Brad Ott -- 3
T125 -- Chris Kirk -- 4
T125 -- Brian Gaffney -- 4
T125 -- Darren Clarke -- 4
T125 -- John Daly -- 4
T125 -- Vijay Singh -- 4
T125 -- Matt Jones -- 4
T125 -- Rory McIlroy -- 4
T125 -- Matt Kuchar -- 4
T125 -- Jim Herman -- 4
T125 -- Kyung-tae Kim -- 4
T125 -- Mitch Lowe -- 4
T136 -- Mark Brown -- 5
T136 -- J.B. Holmes -- 5
T136 -- Charley Hoffman -- 5
T136 -- Jonas Blixt -- 5
T136 -- Fabian Gomez -- 5
T136 -- Jim Furyk -- 5
T136 -- Bernd Wiesberger -- 5
T136 -- Charl Schwartzel -- 5
T136 -- Rick Schuller -- 5
T145 -- Wyatt Worthington II -- 6
T145 -- Joseph Summerhays -- 6
T145 -- Shaun Micheel -- 6
T145 -- Dustin Johnson -- 6
T145 -- Brad Lardon -- 6
T150 -- Tommy Sharp -- 7
T150 -- Josh Speight -- 7
T150 -- Troy Merritt -- 7
T150 -- Rocco Mediate -- 7
T150 -- Tony Finau -- 7
155 -- Brandon Stone -- 8
156 -- James Morrison -- 9