The tees times for the first round of 108th US PGA Championship have been announced, with the showpiece three-ball of Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth due to start at 1.40pm (BST).
Such is the size of the field – 156 players – that a two-tee start is being operated, with McIlroy’s group beginning on the 10th hole at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania.
McIlroy is bidding to the win the PGA Championship for the third time, following victories in 2012 and 2014, and is also looking to become the first player to win the Masters and the PGA in the same year since Jack Nicklaus achieved the feat in 1975.
Xander Schauffele, winner of the PGA Championship in 2024, goes out with three-tome PGA champion Brooks Koepka and Tyrrell Hatton in the group in front of McIlroy at 1.29pm, while world number one Scottie Scheffler starts his bid to defend the title he won a year ago at 7.05pm, alongside Matt Fitzpatrick and Justin Rose.
Fitzpatrick’s younger brother Alex, who secured his tour card with victory alongside brother Matt at the Zurich Classic last month, tees off in the first group of the tournament at 11.45am with Americans Braden Shattuck and Ben Griffin.
Tommy Fleetwood goes out at 6.43pm alongside fellow Ryder Cup star Bob MacIntyre and America’s Chris Gotterup.
Two-time major winner Bryson DeChambeau is playing alongside Rickie Fowler and Ludvig Aberg, with the trio teeing off from the first hole at 1.18pm.
Round one: Thursday, 14 May (all times BST)
Starting on first hole
11:45 Braden Shattuck (US), Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng), Ben Griffin (US)
11:56 Francisco Bide (Arg), Harry Hall (Eng), Ryan Gerard (US)
12:07 John Keefer (US), Rico Hoey (Phi), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den)
12:18 Shaun Micheel (US), Michael Brennan (US), Garrick Higgo (SA)
12:29 YE Yang (Kor), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Matt McCarty (US)
12:40 Lucas Glover, Tom McKibbin (NI), Stephan Jaeger (Ger)
12:51 Daniel Brown (Eng), Adrien Saddier (Fra), Harris English (US)
13:02 Jacob Bridgeman (US), Bud Cauley (US), Alex Noren (Swe)
13:13 Chris Kirk (US), Max Greyserman (US), Kristoffer Reitan (Nor)
13:24 Maverick McNealy (US), Thomas Detry (Bel), Padraig Harrington (Irl)
13:35 Ryan Lenahan (US), Ryan Fox (NZ), Kazuki Higa (Jpn)
13:46 Jared Jones (US), Michael Kim (US), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn)
13:57 Tyler Collet (US), Kota Kaneko (Jpn), Brandt Snedeker (US)
17:15 Andrew Novak (US), John Parry (Eng), Jordan Gumberg (US)
17:26 Ben Polland (US), Kurt Kitayama (US), Nico Echavarria (Col)
17:37 Akshay Bhatia (US), Ricky Castillo (US), Michael Thorbjornsen (US)
17:48 Luke Donald (Eng), Jesse Droemer (US), Stewart Cink (US)
17:59 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), JJ Spaun (US), Max Homa (US)
18:10 Ben Kern (US), JT Poston (US), Russell Henley (US)
18:21 Adam Scott (Aus), Corey Conners (Can), Daniel Berger (US)
18:32 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Collin Morikawa (US), Shane Lowry (Ire)
18:43 Chris Gotterup (US), Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)
18:54 Cameron Young (US), Keegan Bradley (US), Justin Thomas (US)
19:05 Scottie Scheffler (US), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng), Justin Rose (Eng)
19:16 Zach Haynes (US), Alex Smalley (US), Chandler Blanchet (US)
19:27 Bernd Wiesberger (Aut), Sudarshan Yellamaraju (Can), Andy Sullivan (US)
Starting on the 10th Hole
11:50 Aldrich Potgieter (SA), David Puig (Spa), Denny McCarthy (US)
12:01 William Mouw (US), Chris Gabriele (US), Taylor Pendrith (Can)
12:12 Tom Hoge (US), Bryce Fisher (US), Joaquin Niemann (Chl)
12:23 Keith Mitchell (US), Billy Horschel (US), Ian Holt (US)
12:34 Gary Woodland (US), Jason Day (Aus), Sam Burns (US)
12:45 Wyndham Clark (US), Cameron Smith (Aus), Brian Harman (US)
12:56 Patrick Cantlay (US), Min Woo Lee (Aus), Sahith Theegala (US)
13:07 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Derek Berg (US), Joe Highsmith (US)
13:18 Bryson DeChambeau (US), Ludvig Aberg (Swe), Rickie Fowler (US)
13:29 Xander Schauffele (US), Brooks Koepka (US), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)
13:40 Rory McIlroy (NI), Jordan Spieth (US), Jon Rahm (Spa)
13:51 Daniel Hillier (NZ), Ryan Vermeer (US), Max McGreevy (US)
14:02 Paul McClure (US), Mikael Lindberg (Swe), Angel Ayora (Spa)
17:10 Michael Block (US), Rasmus Hojgaard (Den), Dustin Johnson (US)
17:21 Mark Geddes (Eng) (US), Steven Fisk (US), David Lipsky (US)
17:32 Sungjae Im (Kor), Austin Hurt (US), Casey Jarvis (SA)
17:43 Andrew Putnam (US), Michael Kartrude (US), Matt Wallace (Eng)
17:54 Martin Kaymer (Ger), Elvis Smylie (Aus), Davis Riley (US)
18:05 Jason Dufner (US), Haotong Li (Chn), Jimmy Walker (US)
18:16 Nick Taylor (Can), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Jordan Smith (Eng)
18:27 Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Patrick Reed (US), Pierceson Coody (US)
18:38 Brian Campbell (US), Adam Schenk (US), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (SA)
18:49 Marco Penge (Eng), Sepp Straka (Aut), Patrick Rodgers (US)
19:00 Aaron Rai (Eng), Travis Smyth (Aus), Sami Valimaki (Fin)
19:11 Sam Stevens (US), Jayden Schaper (SA), Garrett Sapp (US)
19:22 Timothy Wiseman (US), Matti Schmid (Ger), Austin Smotherman (US).
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