‘More of the same tomorrow’ mentality for Scottie
I think the emphasis would be share of the lead. I think there’s like six or seven guys up there. I mean, it’s a really tight leaderboard. At this moment, it’s anybody’s tournament…It’s nice to get off to a good start. Get some rest tonight and wake up and do more of the same tomorrow.
A 67 puts Scottie Scheffler in unfamiliar territory.
For the first time in his career, the World No. 1 holds at least a share of the lead after Round 1 of a Major Championship. 🤯#PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/jtyL2VbnTr
— PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 14, 2026
After Round 1 of the PGA Championship there are seven co-leaders … that’s the largest number of players to ever be tied for the lead after any round in a major 🤯
Justin Rose finished Round 1 with an even-par 70 after an incredible par-saving putt on No. 18
Scheffler tied for🥇after Round 1
Scottie Scheffler shot 3-under 67 at Aronimink and finished the first round tied for the lead going into Friday…
You’ll be hearing this a lot but here it is again: Scheffler has never led after the first round at a major tournament…UNTIL TODAY ✅
After finishing the first round at the PGA Championship with a birdie:
I was pretty happy with that one. That will make dinner taste nice.
Scottie shares the co-lead after 16!
🐦 on No. 16 put the world No. 1 in a six-way tie for the top spot at Aronimink
M. Fitzpatrick adds a ⭕ to the card
Matt Fitzpatrick recorded his first birdie of the day on No. 16, so far he’s shot even par during the first round.
Lowry ends 1st round with a 🐦
Shane Lowry had a beautiful birdie to close out 18 on PGA Championship Thursday…~14 footer circled the lip and dropped in to end the round on a high note for the Irishman
6 players remain tied for top spot
3 under: Scheffler sits one back from the top six…
Rose chips it in for birdie on No. 14!
Thomas tosses club at 14th tee
Justin Thomas did not like his first shot on the par-3 No. 14. He released his iron in frustration after the attempt.
Thomas sits tied atop the leaderboard at Aronimink. He has yet to bogey during his opening round on Thursday.
All groupings playing ‘back nine’ at Aronimink
All the Thursday afternoon groupings have played at least nine holes at Aronimink as the sun is expected to set around 8:08 local time. Will the entire first round be played or will there be some runover Friday morning? It’ll be a close call, something to monitor over the next two hours of play at the year’s second major.
Timothy Wiseman, Matti Schmid, and Austin Smotherman were the last grouping off the tee at No. 10, while Bernd Wiesberger, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, and Andy Sullivan were the final trio to go off at No. 1 before 2:30.
The second round of the 108th PGA Championship is underway at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square.
Make it another birdie for Scottie
Scottie Scheffler is in the zone.
With birdies on four of his last six holes, the defending PGA Championship winner is now tied with six other players atop the leaderboard at Aronimink.
Justin Thomas and Corey Conners also are at 3 under on the back nine, while four others are in the clubhouse locked in with 67s after going off earlier during Thursday’s opening round.
Room for one more? Conners ties six others for PGA lead
Corey Conners second consecutive birdie on the back nine has pushed the two-time Tour winner into a seven-player tie atop the PGA Championship leaderboard.
Like Conners, Justin Thomas and Martin Kaymer are on the course battling to stay 3 under — or potentially get to a lower score by the end of their respective rounds.
In the clubhouse tied at 67 are a quadrant of international names: Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaegar, Min Woo Lee and Ryo Hisatsune.
Scheffler to within shot of lead ☝️
Scottie Scheffler is a shot off the seven-player lead at Aronimink.
The reigning PGA Championship winner opened his back nine with a birdie on the par-4 10th hole.
He has three birdies in his last five holes.
Chris Gotterup, meet you new friend
A two-time winner on Tour this season, Chris Gotterup got an assist at the par-4 11th hole that helped set him up for an opening round birdie.
The birdie tap-in helped Gotterup undo a bogey that started the back nine. He sits T-57 at 1 over with a handful of holes left to play in the first round.
Welcome to Shane Lowry’s elevator ride
Shane Lowry has been up and down and all around Aronimink during Thursday’s opening round.
The work is paying off as the Irishman is sitting a stroke off the lead at 2 under. His eagle to end the front nine was an early highlight.
He also birdied on the par-4 11th to climb the leaderboard. Those shots have helped erase a pair of bogeys on at No. 1 and No. 8.
Here’s one more look from Lowry on the par-4 seventh to show what kind of a day it has been for the 2019 Open Championship winner.
Brooks on LIV: ‘It’s in the past’
Brooks Koepka is worried about one thing and one thing only: putting.
The three-time Wanamaker Trophy winner and former LIV player was asked about his former Tour’s ongoing financial situation after shooting a 1-under 69 at Aronimink, and made it clear where his focus was this week’s PGA Championship.
“I don’t have any involvement with it anymore, so I don’t pay any attention to it. I’m kind of in my own little world, and I’d like to stay there,” Koepka told reporters. “It’s in the past, and I’m on the PGA Tour now, and I’m just focused on how I can figure out how to make this putter work.”
Koepka, who changed putters from a blade to a mallet at the WM Phoenix Open earlier this year, said he was feeling more comfortable at this point.
“A little bit of speed, a little bit of confidence. That kind of sums it up. It’s just been miss after miss,” he explained. “It’s tough to kind of build any confidence when you’re not putting well.”
All of the PGA Championship winners since the men’s major first began in 1916, from Jim Barnes to Aaron Rai.
Got any room up there? Doesn’t matter, Justin Thomas is making some for himself.
The two-time Wanamaker Trophy winner is 3 under and tied with six other players atop the leaderboard at Aronimink after sinking a 6-foot birdie putt on the long, par-3 eighth hole. Aldrich Potgieter, Ryo Hisatsune, Min Woo Lee and Stephan Jaegar are leading in the clubhouse. Martin Kaymer and Alex Smalley, like Thomas, remain on the course.
Two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas opens with a 3-under 32 on the front at Aronimink Golf Club, currently tied for the lead.
In 10 PGA Championship starts, Thomas owns four top-10 finishes, highlighted by wins in 2017 (Quail Hollow Club) and 2022 (Southern Hills CC).
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) May 14, 2026
‘Couldn’t feel any worse’: Rahm on divot striking volunteer
If anyone knows the volunteer who was hit in the face by a divot after Jon Rahm’s errant approach shot on the seventh hole Thursday, the two-time major winner would like to give him a present.
Rahm, who apologized to the person during his round, explained the situation to the media and called it “inexcusable.”
“I got a flier on my second shot that went long. It’s not a good spot. Just out of frustration, I tried to make an air swing, just over the grass, and I wasn’t looking, took a divot, and unfortunately, I hit a volunteer,” Rahm said. “Unfortunately it hit him in the shoulder and then the face. Which I couldn’t feel any worse. That’s why I was there apologizing. I need to somehow track him down to give him a present because that’s inexcusable and for something that could be completely avoidable.”
“Whether it was my intention or not, it was just not good.”
Scottie goes back to back 💪
The defending champ hit trouble on No. 4 but responded with a fiery a back-to-back birdie stretch that got him to 1 under through seven.
Scheffler is currently T-14 on the Aronimink leaderboard.
Niemann on first major round of year: ‘Nice to get going’
Joaquin Niemann was one of the bigger names not at Augusta, and that situation provided plenty motivation during his opening round at Aronimink Thursday.
The 27-year-old Chilean, who finished T-8 at Quail Hollow last year, currently ranks 167th in the world and did not qualify for the Masters this year.
“It’s a tough course, a lot of anxiety coming before the round,” Niemann told reporters after. “It’s nice to get it going. Played a good round. It was fun out there.”
He shot a 1-under 69 and currently sits T-14 at this year’s PGA Championship. A two-time winner on Tour, Niemann joined LIV Golf in 2022. He’s won seven times on the LIV circuit.
“I always try to do my best. I always try to improve,” he said after his round Thursday. “I think I was saying to Pete Cowen yesterday, the day I figure out this game, I’m going to retire. And he answers, ‘I’m 75 years old, and I haven’t figured it out yet, so good luck.’”
“I don’t think I’m ever going to figure it out. The only way I can do is just come here, show up the best possible way I can prepare to it and just play golf.”
Potgieter, by the numbers
Players who are 21 years old are not often seen at the top of the PGA Championship leaderboard on Thursday — or any day for that matter.
That’s what makes Aldrich Potgieter such a fun storyline to follow at Aronimink.
The South African is off the course after shooting a 3-under 67, which is his career low at a major. Also worth noting: Potgieter is the second-youngest player to open the PGA Championship with 67 or better
And while we’re talking numbers and Potgieter: In case you were not aware he currently ranks No. 1 on Tour in driving distance (326.9).
He sits in a four-way tie with Ryo Hisatsune, Min Woo Lee and Stephan Jaegar in the clubhouse.
Four international players are tied for the lead at 3-under following the morning wave of the first round at the PGA Championship: — PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) May 14, 2026 After several months overhauling his training and diet, the 21-year-old, hard-hitting South African is down about 35 pounds from where he ended last season.
Aldrich Potgieter (South Africa)
Stephan Jaeger (Germany)
Min Woo Lee (Australia)
Ryo Hisatsune (Japan)
Michael Block makes three birdies and a double over his opening nine holes to turn in 1-under 34.
60% of the time, it works every time
Garrick Higgo arrived about one minute late for his 7:18 AM tee time at Aronimink.
After the 2-stroke penalty, he shot a 1-under 69 to open his week at the PGA Championship.
(via ESPN) pic.twitter.com/cm5gx6PLRk
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) May 14, 2026
THE MODERATOR: Rory McIlroy is with us at the 108th PGA Championship. How would you describe your opening round?
RORY McILROY: Shit.
😃
— Brentley Romine (@BrentleyGC) May 14, 2026
4. Straight. Bogeys. For. Rory.
McIlroy bogeys his final four holes Thursday to shoot 4-over-par 74. Jon Rahm finished birdie-birdie to shoot 1-under 69. Jordan Spieth bogeyed two of his last three to also card a 69.
The lead is currently 3 under par.
The defending champ is on the course
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is off the first tee.
To shoot 76.
It was his only birdie of the round, compared to five bogeys and one double. He’s currently T-113 at 6 over.
Four bogeys in five holes for McIlroy
McIlroy has gone bogey-birdie-bogey-bogey-bogey to drop to 3 over par. He has one hole remaining in his opening round.
Following a bogey at the par-4 seventh, his 16th hole of the day, Rahm chips in for birdie at the par-3 eighth. It’s Rahm’s first birdie of the round — he did hole out for eagle on the par-4 second — and he’s again at even par.
And … that’s a bogey for Spieth From the fairway and 119 yards out, Spieth bogeys the par-4 seventh, his 16th hole, after three-putting from 75 feet. He’s back to 2 under and one off the pace.
Jordan Spieth shares the lead at 3 under par through 15 holes.
From two-shot penalty to 1 under par
Garrick Higgo received a two-shot penalty to start his round for being late to the first tee. He still managed a 1-under 69 to sit two off the early lead.
Garrick was slapped with a two-shot penalty Thursday for arriving late to the tee for his 7:18 a.m. ET start time at Aronimink.
Potgieter shoots 3-under 69
The South African holds the early clubhouse lead after six birdies and three bogeys. Forget his power, Potgieter picked up 5.143 strokes on the field with his putter.
Rahm holes out for eagle on the par-4 second, his 11th hole of the round, to get back to even par. As the ESPN+ broadcast said, he finally smiled today!
Koepka, Spieth turn under par
After starting on the back nine, Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth both enter the front side at 1 under par. Rory McIlroy is even, Jon Rahm 1 over and Bryson DeChambeau 4 over.
Hole-out eagle for Dan Brown at No. 11
This gets him to 2 under and one off the lead.
Higgo made double on his first hole. Here’s why:
Garrick was slapped with a two-shot penalty Thursday for arriving late to the tee for his 7:18 a.m. ET start time at Aronimink.
Four birdies in six holes
It’s Stephan Jaeger (-4) off to the hot start and the early lead at the PGA Championship.
Aronimink’s defense on alert
Bryson DeChambeau launched his drive on the par-4 11th (his second), 311 yards into the middle of the fairway. With just a wedge in, he one-hopped the green and his ball didn’t spin back. From above the hole, his next shot rolled 50 feet past. He two-putted from there for bogey.
And the third of the morning featured groups off the 10th
Hole-by-hole yardages for Round 1
Next featured group is out
Also off the 10th tee:
The first featured group is on the tee
Beginning on the par-4 10th:
It’s 53 degrees at Aronimink. Bryson:
Alex Fitzpatrick starts his first PGA Championship birdie-birdie.
Braden Shattuck hit the opening shot of the 108th PGA Championship on Thursday, leading to uncertainty that greeted the second major of the year.
Rex & Lav preview the PGA
One good listen before we kick start major No. 2.
First-round tee times and groups
The first round of the 108th PGA Championship is underway at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
A little history lesson before we begin Take a look at some answers to frequently asked questions about the PGA Championship, the second major of the year.
Who wins? Who disappoints?
Some predictions from the GolfChannel.com team:
Who will win the 108th PGA Championship? What will be the winning score at Aronimink? GolfChannel.com writers weigh in.
Let’s take a look at Aronimink’s back nine
More from Gil Hanse:
Aronimink’s back 9: Drone tour with co-restorer Hanse
Gil Hanse who helped lead the restoration of Aronimink Golf Club joined “Live From the PGA Championship” to take the crew on a drone tour of the back nine.
A drone tour of Aronimink’s front nine
With Gil Hanse, who helped restore the course: Aronimink’s front 9: Hanse, who helped restore course, takes drone tour
Gil Hanse who helped lead the restoration of Aronimink Golf Club joined “Live From the PGA Championship” to take the crew on a drone tour of the front nine.
It’s PGA Thursday! Here’s how to watch
Here’s how you can watch Sunday’s coverage, as well as get highlights, interviews and analysis on “Live From the PGA Championship.”
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