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Yang just chipped in for birdie at the par-3 sixth hole ... JD rolled in a birdie at the par-5 fifth. His wedge spun perfectly to within two feet ... and the X-Man keeps his hot stretch going from the weekend in Dallas. We now have seven players atop the leaderboard at -1. 9:26 a.m.: Tiger, Spieth and Rory all find the green at the par-3 11th hole. 9:34 a.m.: Good runs for birdie for Tiger, Rory and Spieth ... they'll settle for pars at the par-3 11th. And California club pro Michael Block started with a birdie at the 10th. Will Zalatoris just looped in a long birdie at the par-4 12th hole to get to 2-under, tieing Robert MacIntyre, Y.E. Yang and John Daly atop the leaderboard. Tiger was nearly 100 yards further from the hole than Rory, but he still puts it to 20-or-so feet at the 12th. Jordan Spieth thought he lost his tee shot way left ... but the hole doglegs left and his ball bounced into the fairway. Spieth missed his birdie effort from 10 feet and Rory converted his birdie after a nice bunker shot to get to two under. Woods moves to two under with his second birdie of the day, but he trails playing partner Rory McIlroy, who also birdies the hole from a similar spot. And he made up two shots on both his playing partners as Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth bogeyed the par-4 15th. This is a different Southern Hills than in recent major history, plus as we mentioned, there is forecasts for Friday afternoon storms—so will the course play softer on the weekend and make it easier to come from behind?
The second major championship in men's golf gets underway Thursday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a star-studded field competing for the Wanamaker Trophy.
He will not be able to dodge the pointed questions about the new Saudi-backed golf tour or the unauthorized biography of him that was released this week whenever he does resurface. Mickelson would have hosted the dinner after becoming the oldest major champion last year when he won the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island two months shy of turning 51. Obviously we're going to have difference of opinions, how he sees the Tour, and we'll go from there." Instead of sadness at how far the most beloved golfer since Arnold Palmer has fallen, however, there should be a sense of relief. Woods seeking his fifth PGA Championship. He started off at the back nine at No. 10 with Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth. Woods birdied the first hole to get off to a fast start. “It’s an elephant in the room for me. However, two of the biggest names in men's golf will not be in the field. Tiger Woods has won at Southern Hills Country Club, taking home the Wanamaker Trophy in 2007. The story here this week is the PGA.” I believe in major championships. “I think Phil would have been a big distraction. And 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau withdrew on Wednesday as he continues to recover from wrist surgery.
Tiger Woods returns to the venue of his 2007 PGA Championship victory; Jordan Spieth looks to complete the career Grand Slam; Jon Rahm has the opportunity ...
The world No 1 is sure to face stern competition from his Ryder Cup teammates with Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele all in fine form.
Rory McIlroy (-4) finds the green in two on the ninth, the last hole of his round. That’s a great start to the tournament for the Northern Irishman. Most of the bunker shots I hit were long but predominantly I hit bad iron shots and that’s not normally how I play. The blockbuster trio of John Rahm, Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler get their rounds started on the first tee. Jon Rahm is looking to clinch the second major of his career and hasn’t competed since winning the Mexico Championship at the start of the month. Scottie Scheffler enters the week as a slight favourite owing to his spectacular start to the season, with four victories including his maiden major title at Augusta in April. The world No 1 is sure to face stern competition from his Ryder Cup teammates with Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele all in fine form.
Rory McIlroy ended his torrid first-round record in majors to race into the early lead on the opening day of the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills.
Woods, making his first start since his long-awaited comeback at The Masters, had followed a close-range birdie on the tenth by holing from 15 feet at the 14th, only to drop a shot at the next after a poor tee shot and then post three consecutive bogeys from the 18th. McIlroy's hopes of a '61 round' and the lowest in major history were ended when he missed from nine feet to save par at the sixth, before losing his outright advantage after failing to get up and down from a greenside bunker on his penultimate hole. McIlroy got up and down from a greenside bunker to take advantage of the par-five 13th and rolled in from 25 feet at the next, with a 10-foot birdie at the 15th lifting him into the solo lead and helping him reach the turn in 31.
Complete 2022 PGA Championship tee times for Round 2 at Southern Hills on Friday, featuring Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and more.
Sign up for an account to get into the action today. 9:50 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert 2:20 p.m. – Matt Kuchar, Cameron Davis, Rikuya Hoshino 8:49 a.m. – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas 8:38 a.m. – Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott 9:50 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert 8:27 a.m. – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin 3:09 p.m. – Cameron Young, Sam Burns, Davis Riley If you buy a linked product, GOLF.COM may earn a fee. 9:06 a.m. – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ McIlroy, already a two-time PGA champion, came out firing on Thursday, going five under over his first 11 holes to take the lead. Pricing may vary.
For now though, we'll focus on the on-course matters at Southern Hills and it was left to 1991 champion John Daly to hit the opening tee shot about 40 minutes ...
All will be looking at that five-under target and hoping to get close to it by the end of play. Conditions still look good but the wind is meant to be picking up as the afternoon progresses. Down to four over though.
Rory McIlroy was brilliant on Day 1 of the PGA Championship. Here's a look at some of his highlights.
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Tiger Woods lamented a disappointing day with his irons after battling through the pain barrier to post an opening-round 74 at the PGA Championship.
"Obviously you can shoot something in the mid-60s, Rory [McIlroy] proved that today," Woods told Sky Sports. "He made it look very easy. I actually felt comfortable with the driver, I hit a lot of fairways with it, but from there it wasn't very good. I got off to a great start today, I did exactly what I needed to do starting out the round, but I did not keep it going.
Woods made five bogeys in his final nine holes of the first round and he'll have to battle to make the 36-hole cut on Friday.
He had a shot to the green, but found the front bunker and made his first bogey. He made three straight bogeys starting at the 18th through the second, in each case failing to get up and down from around the green. After a birdie at the third with a nice approach, he bogeyed the fourth when he again hit a poor chip, and then could not get up and down from a bunker at the eighth. He added another birdie at the par-3 14th to get to 2 under par. He took some time to recover afterward, and then began the process of ramping up again. He struggled on bunker shots and had difficulty controlling pitch shots as well.
1. Rory McIlroy (-5) · T2. Will Zalatoris and Tom Hoge (-4) · T4. Justin Thomas, Matt Kuchar and Abraham Ancer (-3) · T7. Xander Schauffele, Cameron Smith and nine ...
Last seen at Augusta National, rust and potentially a hip injury are currently getting the better of Koepka. A pair of Masters champions, other players in contention to have played consistently well at Augusta National include: Rory McIlroy, Will Zalatoris, Patrick Reed, and many more. Four American players in the last 40 years have got their first PGA Tour win at a major championship. Collin Morikawa was the latest victim as he failed to get up and down for birdie on the par-5th. T66. Jordan Spieth and 22 others (+2): Spieth lost more than a stroke to the field putting in Round 1. The 2017 PGA Championship winner put together the best round of the afternoon and is well positioned heading into tomorrow. Justin Thomas was the star of the afternoon with a 3-under 67 but he was one of few under par. Signing for a 1-under 69, the former Oklahoma State Cowboy finds himself only four strokes behind Rory McIlroy. Earlier this season, the 30-year-old made his Masters debut where he finished in a tie for 14th. How he would hold up this week was always a question after he struggled to finish at the Masters last month, and it seems again a relevant concern as he looks to Friday with a real threat of missing the cut. 1. Rory McIlroy (-5): McIlroy's 5-under 65 was his lowest score in an opening round at a major since the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional, an event he went on to win. Tee to green, he was great, and his approach game was good enough to keep him in the hunt. Kuchar had a bogey-free front nine to spur him to an opening-round 67, during which he gained nearly two strokes on approach, which this week is the name of the game.
Jesse Mueller, winner of the PGA Professional Championship, couldn't have asked for a better way to begin his first appearance at the PGA Championship.
Starting on the par-4 10th hole at Southern Hills in this opening round Thursday afternoon, Mueller found the fairway off the tee and left himself 102 years with his approach … which he proceeded to holed out for eagle 2. Clad in a bright-purple get-up repping his school, the Grand Canyon University, where he’s general manager of the school-owned course and a volunteer assistant for the men’s and women’s teams, Mueller got to celebrate the moment with his wife, Jessie. She is on the bag this week in Tulsa, just as she was when Mueller won the PGA Professional Championship last month in Austin. As winner of last month’s PGA Professional Championship, Jesse Mueller is the proud leader of the PGA of America’s #TeamOf20 club pros getting the chance to go shot-for-shot with the best in the world at this week’s PGA Championship. He may not draw the fans of the Tiger/Rory/Spieth pairing, but that doesn’t mean that the 39-year-old from Scottsdale, Ariz., can’t make some noise of his own.
Rory McIlroy has acknowledged he must avoid 'getting ahead of himself' after a brilliant opening round at the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills ...
"I don't think he needed to lead the tournament to feel better about himself, just get himself where he was under par, and what a great way to start. "He did it with some beautiful drives, whether they had to curve to the left or to the right, short holes and long holes, his iron play looked pretty good too. "I always enjoy playing with Tiger and Jordan. I did that really well today. "I've been carrying some good form. "I've been playing well coming in here," McIlroy said.
Since winning the last of his four majors in the 2014 US PGA, McIlroy had been a combined 35 over par in the first round of golf's four biggest tournaments, his ...
We’ll start the recovery process and get after it tomorrow. “I just can’t load it. It was a frustrating day.” “It is a great start but I’m not getting ahead of myself. “I drove it well, but my iron shots were not very good,” Woods said. “I did that really well today.
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He also tied for 13th at this year’s Players. Now he’s sent a tramliner into the cup at 12 to join the group at -1. A birdie for the Players champion Cam Smith at 11. Up on the 13th green, it’s back to back birdies for Max Homa. He joins the leading pack at -2. Hot on his heels: Rory McIlroy, who sends his second at the par-five 13th into greenside sand, but slaps a fine wedge to kick-in distance, and that’s two birdies in a row for the Masters runner-up. It’s his second birdie in a row, and he joins the group at -2, one shot off the lead. The 25-year-old Californian finished second at the Masters last year; tied sixth at the US Open at Winged Foot in 2020, coming this close to following up a first-round hole in one with a second a few holes later; and tied eighth on his PGA Championship debut at Kiawah Island last year. He’s a long way back, and can only power his second into the bunker guarding the front left of the green. But it’s a fourth straight birdie for Rory, who rolls his birdie putt confidently into the centre of the cup! (At 527 yards, it’s a par five for the members.) He sends his drive into the big bunker down the left of the fairway, and takes his medicine by laying up. And it’s a third birdie in a row for Justin Rose! He’s been off the pace for the best part of a year, since a top-ten finish at Kiawah 12 months ago. Birdie at 10, and John Daly rejoins the group tying for fourth at -2. From the front of the 16th, McIlroy bumps a wedge gently to a couple of feet.
The second Major of the year the PGA Championship starts today being played at Southern Hills in Oklahoma.
A golfer for most of his life, Sam started playing the game to prove he was the best player out of his father and two brothers. Phil has said some things that I think a lot of us who are committed to the Tour and committed to the legacy of the Tour have pushed back against, and he's taken some personal time, and we all understand that. I am now off to get a crate of Guinness and watch the golf in relaxation. All three hit fairway woods, and all three find the fairway as well. I've been watching for an hour and a half now, and there are lots of birdies to be had out there right now. And outside of three feet he can be deadly with the putter. Three birdies on the first four holes puts Zalatoris into the lead on his own. The wind looks like it is starting to get up after a nice and calm morning so far for the early starters. A long way to go, of course, but I can't really remember the last time he started a Major like this. It has been a pleasure to live blog with you guys for the last three hours. The Woods, McIlroy, Spieth group are 2hrs 10mins into their round and currently on the 8th green - looks to be a standard five hour round. Homa fans, I know there's a lot of you, I'm afraid he's just ended his front nine in a bad way with a three-putt double bogey at the 18th.
Rory McIlroy will look to extend his lead as Jordan Spieth and Tiger Woods battle to make the weekend.
8:49 a.m. -- Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas 9:11 a.m. -- Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler 8:38 a.m. -- Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott All times Eastern 8:49 a.m. -- Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas 9:11 a.m. -- Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler 8:38 a.m. -- Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott There are a number of star-studded groups, particularly Friday afternoon, but with the potential for thunderstorms, they may be taken on and off the golf course. If that club continues to cooperate, the Wake Forest product should add to his stellar major championship résumé which already boasts four top-10 finishes in only seven starts. There are notable names including Cameron Smith, Tony Finau and Xander Schauffele, but Will Zalatoris looks to be a man possessed this week. Spieth signed for a 2-over 72 and Woods a 4-over 74. Rory McIlroy commands the solo lead at Southern Hills after carding a 5-under 65 in the early hours of Thursday. Playing alongside Jordan Spieth and Tiger Woods, the trio's crowd could best be described as a circus.
SHANE LOWRY AND Seamus Power both made solid starts to the second Major of the year in Tulsa in Oklahoma. Lowry carded a level-par 70, while Power finished ...
Power is making only his second Major appearance after a debut at the Masters, where he made the cut and finished in a tie for 27th. After a few weeks break, Lowry returned to action and dropped an early shot on the second before rebounding with a birdie on the fourth. Harrington is out at 7.31pm tomorrow evening alongside Stewart Cink and Jason Dufner.
Despite starting with a sublime birdie on the first, Tiger Woods finished with four-over par round of 74 on the opening day of the US PGA Championship at ...
Prior to the tournament, Woods had insisted he was "ready" to win a fifth PGA title, despite The Masters representing his only event thus far in 2022. "It's frustrating, I got off to a great start today, I did exactly what I needed to to start off the round but I did not keep it going. "[I'll] try and shoot something in the mid-60s tomorrow. Hopefully I can shoot something low and get back in the tournament." However, a wayward drive led to bogey on the par-4 14th and from there, Woods appeared up against it. Woods, 46, appeared in considerable discomfort during Wednesday's practice round, as he continues his comeback from the high-speed car crash that ruled him out of professional tournaments for more than a year.
Always colorful, never boring. A Shaggy John Daly produced yet another wild ride around a PGA Championship. Literally.
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The second major of the 2022 golf season is officially underway with the beauty of May surrounding Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the PGA ...
Be sure to stick with CBS Sports for live coverage throughout, view Round 2 tee times and download the CBS Sports App to watch the PGA Championship live on your mobile device this weekend. Additional TV coverage: 8-9 p.m. on CBS Sports Network We here at CBS Sports are thrilled to bring you wall-to-wall coverage of the PGA Championship throughout this week with action streaming live all weekend. Additional TV coverage: 8-9 p.m. on CBS Sports Network Prime TV coverage: 1-7 p.m. on CBS Here's how you can watch as much PGA Championship as possible throughout the week. Live drone coverage and robotic bunker cameras are among a dozen technological enhancements that will be utilized throughout the coverage. Prime TV coverage: 1-7 p.m. on CBS Given he normally starts slow and picks up his efforts over the weekend, expectations are now raised for McIlroy to pull off something he has not in the last seven-plus seasons. Tiger Woods will tee it up, though after his weekend performance at the Masters last month, any expectations of a 16th major championship being one in Tulsa are slim at best. This year's affair is set with a loaded field, and the leaderboard is already looking strong. Not among those in attendance is defending champion Phil Mickelson, who watches from afar as the rest of the golf world moves on without him.
Rory McIlroy takes a one-shot lead into Friday's second round of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. Tiger Woods is 9 back.
2:20 p.m. – Matt Kuchar, Cameron Davis, Rikuya Hoshino 8:49 a.m. – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas 8:27 a.m. – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin 3:09 p.m. – Cameron Young, Sam Burns, Davis Riley ESPN+ will carry the entire alternate broadcast, which will also air from 2 to 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2. 2:47 p.m. – Patrick Reed, Justin Rose, Bubba Watson 2:25 p.m. – Viktor Hovland, Will Zalatoris, Cameron Smith 1:30 p.m. – Ryan Palmer, Robert MacIntyre, Alex Noren 9:06 a.m. – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ Friday’s forecast for Tulsa calls for highs reaching 89 and southwest winds blowing between 15 and 25 miles per hour early before calming down later in the afternoon. ESPN+ will stream the network's main broadcast coverage. Woods, seemingly favoring his injured right leg, bogeyed six of his final 10 holes to finish at 4-over.
Live scores, updates and highlights from the second round of the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills.
CBS Sports will update this story with scores and highlights from the PGA Championship below. McIlroy, Thomas and others will look to separate themselves from the pack while names like Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth will attempt to make the cut. While the trio were unable to handle the difficult afternoon conditions at Southern Hills, Justin Thomas maintained.
Rory McIlroy has acknowledged he must avoid 'getting ahead of himself' after a brilliant opening round at the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills ...
"I don't think he needed to lead the tournament to feel better about himself, just get himself where he was under par, and what a great way to start. "He did it with some beautiful drives, whether they had to curve to the left or to the right, short holes and long holes, his iron play looked pretty good too. "I always enjoy playing with Tiger and Jordan. I did that really well today. "I've been carrying some good form. "I've been playing well coming in here," McIlroy said.
Rory McIlroy is top of the leaderboard heading into the second day's action in Tulsa, with high winds forecast at Southern Hills Country Club.
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Will Zalatoris and Tom Hoge start the day one back, while Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele and Matt Kuchar are among the other notable names in close pursuit.
Drop! Shane Lowry’s eagle putt on 13 skirts the left edge of the hole and just rolls past. A long iron from Shane Lowry (-1) sees him safely onto the green at the par-3 14th. He joins Rory McIlroy on (-5) with two birdies in his opening four holes on day two. The trio have all recorded three straight pars. Scottie Scheffler was the pre-tournament favourite after his Masters win but the American’s disappointing opening round of 71 leaves him six shots back. Will Zalatoris and Tom Hoge start the day one back, while Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele and Matt Kuchar are among the other notable names in close pursuit.
Lowry and Niemann are this morning's prime movers; the only other player out there currently two under for his round is Kevin Kisner, who has just followed up ...
Speaking of movers and shakers (which we were, sort of) there’s been some early action at the top of the leaderboard. He shot a very respectable 69 yesterday evening, and is following it up this morning, making birdie at the monster par-five 5th (660 yards today) and moving up to -2. Come the afternoon, the second wave of starters will be pleased to feel the wind drop - an average of ten to 15 mph with gusts no higher than 20 mph - but they will have to deal with cooler temperatures, showers, and possibly even thunderstorms. Shane Lowry wasn’t the happiest yesterday evening, effing and jeffing as he needlessly whistled a shot into water on the par-five 13th. Back-to-back birdies for Shane Lowry! This one comes at the par-three 14th, reward for knocking his tee shot to eight feet. He starts with four pars in a row, the latest a slightly disappointing one at the par-five 13th, any chance of birdie gone after spending an age moving pebbles in a bunker under a referee’s supervision only to take far too much of the ball with his chip out. He steps out of the shot a couple of times, and needs his caddy to convince him to execute their plan. A reminder that he tied for fourth in this championship last year, and tied for third at the Masters last month. A great chance to grab back a share of the lead is gone. Justin Thomas sends a fairly average second into 1, failing to take advantage of the excellent drive. Hitting three from the rough down the right, he overcooks a lob wedge, and his ball’s preparing to bound a good way past the hole. Does the investigative journalism lead to the cynicism or does the cynicism lead to the investigative journalist?
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9:50 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert 9:50 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert The second-round telecast can be found on ESPN beginning at 2 p.m. ET. 8:49 a.m. – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas 8:27 a.m. – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin Sign up for an account to get into the action today. 9:06 a.m. – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ If you buy a linked product, GOLF.COM may earn a fee. Pricing may vary. Woods and Spieth did not fare as well on Day 1, struggling to rounds of 74 and 72, respectively. Even better news for Rory fans? Incredibly, it’s the first time since the 2014 PGA Championship that Rory has led a major round at the end of play.
The sand at Southern HIlls has a mix of pebbles in it, and that's causing the competitors to second-guess every bunker shot.
“I didn't feel like there was a lot of sand in the bunkers,” he said after a 68. It's frustrating for sure to get in there and have a pebble kind of shoot your ball off-line, something you can't see. I changed wedges this week and put in much lower bounce, and I figured with the way the sand was, that kind of also helps because it's pretty firm.” “Some of them have no sand; some of them are good sand, whatever it is. "When we did the project with Gil [Hanse] and Jim Wagner, we actually took the sand out out and washed it to get the dirt out of it basically," says Cary Cozby, Southern Hills' director of golf. And then my right foot was pretty good, like normal, and under my ball was like hitting off this,” he said, pointing at the lectern he was standing on. “All the bunker shots sort of came out hot—the sand is a lot faster than I thought it would be," Woods said after a four-over 74. It's like, 'Is there a lot of sand here, is there not, how should I play it?'” The saucer-like, Augusta-esque bunkers have been replaced with sprawling old-school traps whose shape almost resemble a blob of slime. "It's kind of been that way all week, especially if you get up in the areas where it's not raked. He caught another one way too clean from a decent spot on the par-3 eighth, leading to another bogey. TULSA — Bunkers on the PGA Tour tend to be hazards in name only.