It’s customary for Tour pro’s to autograph a golf ball to the walking scorers and marker but then Texas-based Scot Steven Young gave each a sleeve of brand new Callaway’s after the first round in his maiden PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

Young was in good spirits despite no birdies in a five over par 77 in hot but testing windy conditions along the shoreline of Lake Michigan in upstate Wisconsin.

His wife and three children had travelled up from Midland, Texas where the 38-year old has been a club pro for nine years while his parents George and Christine journeyed from Inverallochy, and where Young intends to return over the Christmas period.

“It was a little bit of a struggle out there today and while I putted good, I just didn’t hit it that great and just tried to hang in there but it’s tough walking off with no birdies,” he said.

“There wasn’t any disasters and it was just one of those days where nothing much clicked but ‘hey’, I had so much fun out there today with a big family entourage following me around”.

It was Young’s third appearance in a Major but then 17-years after contesting the second of two straight Open Championships.

Scotland’s highest world-ranked Marc Warren was in a better position but then not all that delighted with a level par 72, and in a round that started with three birdies first six holes but ended with three bogeys in his closing seven holes.

“I was three under par after 10 holes so finish level leaves a sour taste in my mouth,” he said.

“The thing is I drove the ball well and my iron play was good but then just felt I was throwing away shots coming in, and then to bogey the last two holes was very annoying.”

Stephen Gallacher continues to struggle and looks already in danger of missing the halfway cut in signing for a four-over par 76 and 10 shots adrift of `Johnson.

It is the sixth straight occasion Gallacher has not broken 70 on the first day of the PGA and in a Major he’s had three sub-70s in 15 rounds.

The Scot was one under par through 11 holes but then completed his last seven holes in five over par including taking a double bogey at the par three, 17th when he found the rough some 28 yards short of the hole but only managed to advance his second shot some 15 yards.

Martin Laird was in a similar situation as Warren to be one under heading to the 12th hole but then proceeded to play last seven holes in five over par including taking a double at his last, the downhill par four ninth, also in a four-over par 76.

And Colin Montgomerie ended the same as Laird, bogey and double bogey, in a score of 78.

Russell Knox and Richie Ramsay, and Scotland's other two in a strong field of seven Tartan-born players, were each out in the afternoon half of the draw.