Tiger, Rory in back-to-back groups at PGA Championship
Pairings for the first and second rounds of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, include backto-back groupings featuring Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, who are among past Wanamaker Trophy winners on this course.
Woods’ group hits the first tee box, starting at No. 10, at 8:04 a.m. EDT Thursday and will tail a group that includes Justin Thomas. McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Justin Rose will follow the Woods trio at 8:15 a.m.
Defending PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka anchors a marquee grouping with Max Homa and Jordan Spieth. They’ll open on the back nine at 8:37 a.m. EDT on Thursday.
Woods, who posted a playoff win over Bob May to win the 2000 PGA*
Championship at Valhalla, is joined for the first two rounds by playing partners Adam Scott and Keegan Bradley.
World No. 1 and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler starts at hole No. 1 on Thursday with a scheduled tee time of 2:13 p.m. in a pairing with Wyndham Clark and Brian Harman. The trio immediately follows Jon Rahm, Rickie Fowler and Cameron Young.
McIlroy claimed a oneshot victory in 2014 at Valhalla, outlasting Phil Mickelson.
The full list of tee times and groupings for the first round Thursday:
STARTING AT NO. 10
7:20 a.m. – Doug Ghim, Tyler Collet, Adrian Meronk
7:31 a.m. – Larkin Gross, Lucas Herbert, Grayson Murray
7:42 a.m. – Lucas Glover, Stephan Jaeger, Russell Henley
7:53 a.m. – Ludvig Aberg, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas
8:04 a.m. – Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Keegan Bradley
8:15 a.m. – Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose
8:26 a.m. – Cameron Smith, Hideki Matsuyama, Viktor Hovland
8:37 a.m. – Brooks Koepka, Max Homa, Jordan Spieth
8:48 a.m. – Tony Finau, Tyrrell Hatton, Sahith Theegala
8:59 a.m. – Akshay Bhatia, Tommy Fleetwood, Bryson DeChambeau
9:10 a.m. – Sepp Straka, Takumi Kanaya, Nick Taylor
9:21 a.m. – Andy Svoboda, Ben Griffin, Dean Burmester
9:32 a.m. – Preston Cole, Tim Widing, Adrian Otaegui
12:40 p.m. – Rich Beem, Sebastian Soderberg, Kazuma Kobori
12:51 p.m. – Josh Bevell, Aaron Rai, Jordan Smith
1:02 p.m. – Andrew Putnam, Jesse Mueller, Charley Hoffman
1:13 p.m. – Si Woo Kim, Tom Hoge, Alex Noren
1:24 p.m. – Y.E. Yang, Matthieu Pavon, J.T. Poston
1:35 p.m. – Jake Knapp, Jason Dufner, Francesco Molinari
1:46 p.m. – Thomas Detry, Jimmy Walker, Rasmus Hojgaard
1:57 p.m. – Austin Eckroat, Luke List, Mackenzie Hughes
2:08 p.m. – Sungjae Im, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Beau Hossler
2:19 p.m. – Thorbjorn Olesen, Brendon Todd, Keith Mitchell
2:30 p.m. – John Somers, Brice Garnett, Jesper Svensson
2:41 p.m. – Emiliano Grillo, Evan Bowser, Alejandro Tosti
2:52 p.m. – Vincent Norrman, Wyatt Worthington II, Chris Gotterup