DJ braves the heat sans shorts

Dustin Johnson forgot to pack shorts when he was getting ready for the PGA Championship.

Good thing he remembered pants.

The world’s top-ranked player plum forgot that the PGA of America decided last year to begin allowing players in the championships it conducts to wear shorts during practice rounds. Johnson even showed a little leg at Quail Hollow, joining roughly half the field in wearing them.

But when he was busy stuffing his suitcase for Bellerive Country Club this week, Johnson must have gotten into the week-to-week PGA Tour zone: Pants are mandatory. “I definitely forgot,” he said. Quite a few players wore shorts for practice rounds, when temperatures soared into the upper 90s. AHEAD BY A CENTURY: Davis Love III will be joining a select group this weekend.

Only14 others have started100 major championships, a list topped by Jack Nicklaus with 164. The 54-year-old Love’s first was the 1986 PGA Championship at Inverness, so it’s a nice coincidence he will be reaching triple digits at the PGA Championship at Bellerive.

The winner of the 1997 PGA said Tuesday he hopes to play quite a few more.

“It’s amazing to be in that group, to make it that far, and I don’t see very many guys on that list I can catch,” Love said. Love has made the cut 62 times in major championships, finishing in the top 10 on 21 occasions.