The first round of the PGA Championship is always an exciting day in golf. It is the start of another major championship and a chance to see a new star born in the sport.
In 2025, Scottie Scheffler won at Quail Hollow. He held off a resurgent Jon Rahm to win his third major title, and it was one of two majors that he won in 2025. He would go on to win The Open Championship at Royal Portrush and continue his dominance of the men’s game.
It is the second major championship of the year. It is now played in May when it used to be in August and carry the name of ‘Glory’s Last Shot’. It also contains a very large field of stars from the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour, the LIV Golf League and also the very best PGA Professionals in the United States.
Aronimink hasn’t hosted the PGA Championship since 1962, when Gary Player won. It has hosted the Women’s PGA Championship more recently, as well as a PGA Tour event.
In the first round, defending champion Scheffler has been drawn to play with Matt Fitzpatrick and Justin Rose. Rory McIlroy has been drawn to play with Jordan Spieth and Jon Rahm.
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The first round of a major tournament is absolutely crucial. If you don’t get off to a good start, you are immediately on the back foot and have too much ground to make up. It isn’t impossible to come from behind to win this event, as we saw with Justin Thomas defying a seven-shot gap in the final round in 2022, but day one is crucial.
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The tee times for the first round of the 2026 PGA Championship will appear below when they are released.
PGA Championship Tee Times Round 1
UK times. Minus five hours for US times
Hole 1
11.45 am: Braden Shattuck, Alex Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin
11.56 am: Francisco Bide, Harry Hall, Ryan Gerard
12.07 pm: John Keefer, Rico Hoey, Nicolai Hojgaard
12.18 pm: Shaun Micheel, Michael Brennan, Garrick Higgo
12.29 pm: Y.E Yang, Jhonattan Vegas, Matt McCarty
12.40 pm: Lucas Glover, Tom McKibbin, Stephan Jaeger
12.51 pm: Dan Brown, Adrien Saddier, Harris English
1.02 pm: Jacob Bridgeman, Bud Cauley, Alex Noren
1.13 pm: Chris Kirk, Max Greyserman, Kristoffer Reitan
1.24 pm: Maverick McNealy, Thomas Detry, Padraig Harrington
1.35 pm: Ryan Lenahan, Ryan Fox, Kazuki Higa
1.46 pm: Jared Jones, Michael Kim, Ryo Hisatsune
1.57 pm: Tyler Collet, Kota Kaneko, Brandt Snedeker
5.15 pm: Andrew Novak, John Parry, Jordan Gumberg
5.26 pm: Ben Polland, Kurt Kitayama, Nico Echavarría
5.37 pm: Akshay Bhatia, Ricky Castillo, Michael Thorbjornsen
5.48 pm: Luke Donald, Jesse Droemer, Stewart Cink
5.59 pm: Hideki Matsuyama, J.J. Spaun, Max Homa
6.10 pm: Ben Kern, J.T. Poston, Russell Henley
6.21 pm: Adam Scott, Corey Conners, Daniel Berger
6.32 pm: Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry
6.43 pm: Chris Gotterup, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood
6.54 pm: Cameron Young, Keegan Bradley, Justin Thomas
7.05 pm: Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose
7.16 pm: Zach Haynes, Alex Smalley, Chandler Blanchet
7.27 pm: Bernd Wiesberger, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Andy Sullivan
Hole 10
11.50 am: Aldrich Potgeiter, David Puig, Denny McCarthy
12.01 pm: William Mouw, Chris Gabriele, Taylor Pendrith
12.12 pm: Tom Hoge, Bryce Fisher, Joaquin Niemann
12.23 pm: Keith Mitchell, Billy Horschel, Ian Holt
12.34 pm: Gary Woodland, Jason Day, Sam Burns
12.45 pm: Wyndham Clark, Cameron Smith, Brian Harman
12.56 pm: Patrick Cantlay, Min Woo Lee, Sahith Theegala
1.07 pm: Si Woo Kim, Derek Berg, Joe Highsmith
1.18 pm: Bryson DeChambeau, Ludvig Aberg, Rickie Fowler
1.29 pm: Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka, Tyrrell Hatton
1.40 pm: Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm
1.51 pm: Daniel Hillier, Ryan Vermeer, Max McGreevy
2.02 pm: Paul McClure, Mikael Lindberg, Angel Ayora
5.10 pm: Michael Block, Rasmus Hojgaard, Dustin Johnson
5.21 pm: Mark Geddes, Steven Fisk, David Lipsky
5.32 pm: Sungjae Im, Austin Hurt, Casey Jarvis
5.43 pm: Andrew Putnam, Michael Kartrude, Matt Wallace
5.54 pm: Martin Kaymer, Elvis Smylie, Davis Riley
6.05 pm: Jason Dufner, Haotong Li, Jimmy Walker
6.16 pm: Nick Taylor, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
6.27 pm: Emiliano Grillo, Patrick Reed, Pierceson Coody
6.38 pm: Brian Campbell, Adam Schenk, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
6.49 pm: Marco Penge, Sepp Straka, Patrick Rodgers
7.00 pm: Aaron Rai, Travis Smyth, Sami Valimaki
7.11 pm: Sam Stevens, Jayden Schaper, Garrett Sapp
7.22 pm: Timothy Wiseman, Matti Schmid, Austin Smotherman
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