Tee times for the 108th PGA Championship are set, and the first two rounds at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, will put several of the game's biggest names in the spotlight. Scottie Scheffler will try to defend his title, while Rory McIlroy arrives chasing a third PGA Championship and seventh major.
McIlroy is grouped with Jordan Spieth and Jon Rahm at 8:40 a.m. Thursday and 2:05 p.m. Friday, one of the featured trios in the pga championship tee times release. Spieth has not finished inside the top 25 in his last seven starts at the tournament, a stretch that underscores how steep the climb remains for him as he tries to add the one major that has eluded him.
Another marquee group pairs Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka and Tyrrell Hatton at 8:29 a.m. and 1:54 p.m. Schauffele is trying to push himself back into the conversation as the best player in the world with his third major, while Koepka is chasing a fourth PGA Championship victory that would pull him even with McIlroy again. In the other heavyweight pairing, Ludvig Åberg, Rickie Fowler and Bryson DeChambeau go at 8:18 a.m. and 1:43 p.m., a group that combines rising talent, recent form and one of the sport's biggest names.
The list also includes Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa and Shane Lowry at 1:32 p.m. and 8:07 a.m., plus Tommy Fleetwood, Chris Gotterup and Robert MacIntyre at 1:43 p.m. and 8:18 a.m. Fleetwood brings five top-10 finishes this year after breaking through for his first TOUR win last August at East Lake Golf Club, while Hovland, Lowry and Morikawa arrive with questions around form or health. Morikawa finished T62 in Miami two weeks ago and withdrew before the start of the Truist Championship, and Åberg has yet to make a cut in two career PGA Championship starts.
The timing gives the championship an immediate narrative edge: McIlroy enters as the second favorite behind only Scheffler, Spieth is still trying to solve a major that has resisted him for years, and DeChambeau comes in after missing the cut at the Masters when he entered that event as a favorite. At Aronimink, the opening rounds are built around players with unfinished business, and the first tee times already set the tone for a major that starts with almost as much intrigue as it finishes with.
