PGA Championship

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 made a miraculous comeback from the horror leg injury - he sustained last year - at the Masters last month to make the cut and eventually finish ...

Thus it’s been called Moving Day. However, it’s one of the silliest cliches in golf as every day is moving day, and it’s always a good time to be in contention. It means one of the most dominant players in the game when he’s on form, has found his game once more - albeit with a putter that is still misbehaving. Spieth has long been touted as the next player to win the career grand slam, having won The Masters and the US Open in 2015 before claiming victory in The Open in 2017.

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.

The 2022 PGA Championship is underway. Follow here for complete results for each golfer during the tournament.

2:58 p.m. 2:36 p.m. 2:14 p.m. 1:52 p.m. 1:41 p.m. 1-7 p.m. On Thursday and Friday, ESPN+ will handle coverage from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. ET each day before ESPN takes over at 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. ET. 1:30 p.m. 1-7 p.m. 2-8 p.m. 2-8 p.m. He last won the event in 2007, the last time it was held at Southern Hills.

1. PHIL MICKELSON. Phil Mickelson holds the Wanamaker Trophy. (Image credit: Getty Images). Lefty has made the difficult decision not ...

The Englishman was inside the top-50 in the Official World Golf Ranking last year but his recent run of form has resulted in a slip to 150th. He now resides in Leeds and is a member of Cobble Hall Golf Club with a handicap index of 1.7. His favourite films are The Legend of Bagger Vance and Tin Cup. He had just earned his first Major title and established himself as a key figure on the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup scene. He is obsessed with all areas of the game – from tournament golf, to history, equipment, technique and travel. With complications surrounding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment, Walker has been unable to reach those heights again. In 2009, a rib-injury ruled him out of the tournament where YE Yang went on to defeat Tiger Woods at Hazeltine. Matt Wallace has endured a difficult 2022 so far - missing eight cuts in his last nine PGA Tour appearances. Danny Willett made history at the 2016 Masters when a final round 67, and a hiccup from Jordan Spieth, earned him the Green Jacket and his first Major championship. In August 2019 he was charged with sexual assault, being drunk on an aircraft and common assault. His Masters victory no longer affords him playing rights in the PGA Championship. He backed that up with a tie for fourth last year. DeChambeau injured his hand in a slip whilst playing ping pong at the Saudi International earlier this year.

The Sporting News is tracking scores and highlights from Tiger Woods and his group, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, from the first round of the 2022 PGA ...

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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 ...

Live scores, updates and highlights from the first round of the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills.

Good morning all and welcome to our coverage of the 2022 PGA Championship. We've already had some excitement here in Tulsa with 56-year-old John Daly, who teed off first to start Round 1, sitting T1 on the leaderboard. Thankful we've arrived at the awesome level of early access and coverage we have today.— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) May 19, 2022 Oh, and don't forget about Tiger Woods who is 1 under through his first two holes. Great start to the week for him. Homa's had a stellar year -- he won earlier this month at the Wells Fargo -- yet entered this week as a quasi-sleeper given the star power (and Tiger) in the field. The last time Rory McIlroy had 4 birdies in a row in the opening round of a major? His bunker shot missed for birdie and his par putt, well long, he left on the short side. Followed him this morning from the range to the putting green and he was missing just about every other one within 10 feet. Like earlier in his round, he missed his approach -- but this time paid the price. Missing birdie opportunities on his next two holes, the three-time major champion has since made two consecutive bogeys. CBS Sports will update this story with scores and highlights from the PGA Championship below. Reigning champion Phil Mickelson's curious absence looms over the event like a shadow after a late withdrawal, but the old guard will be well-represented still with Woods. He's six weeks removed from a slow finish to the Masters, where he made the cut in his first appearance in more than a year.

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.

Leaderboard at 10:40 a.m. ETT1 Max Homa -3 (6)T1 Will Zalatoris -3 (6)T1 Rory McIlroy -3 (5)T4 Y.E. Yang -2 (9)T4 Robert MacIntyre -2 (9)T4 Xander ...

He's above the hole and it'll be a difficult shot coming downhill. Tiger hit a poor tee shot on No. 15 and his stinger attempt found the right rough. He had to contend with the lip of the bunker and he'll have an uphill chip to get up-and-down for par. He made a 21-footer on 12 for birdie, and came back on 13 with a long lag putt for eagle that got him to within three feet for another birdie. McIlroy hits a great chip and he taps in for par. His putt coming back misses and he makes his second bogey in a row. McIlroy hit a bad putt from the fringe and left it short. He'll have a long putt for birdie and his frustration is starting to show. Spieth hits a great shot from the bunker, but misses the par putt. It drops him to 2-under on the day, in the large group tied for fourth. The poor iron shot from the fairway comes back to bite him. His par putt was from the fringe and he missed it.

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.

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.

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.

Rory McIlroy fired his best opening round at a major in 11 years to seize the lead at the PGA Championship while Tiger Woods struggled in his second ...

"I'd call any birdie on 18 a steal," Thomas said. "It was a great start to the tournament," McIlroy said. "I was scrambling pretty good and got up-and-down on all of them," Hoge said. "Off to a good start," Woods said. "It's super fun whenever you have days like that," Zalatoris said. "Hit a lot of bad iron shots late.

Tiger Woods plays his second shot on the 1st hole during the first round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club on May 19 2022 in Tulsa, ...

But it also had the tougher conditions. "I've been carrying some good form. His score on Thursday makes him the first player to shoot 65 or better in the final round of one major and 65 or better in the first round of the next.

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.

After grabbing an early share of the lead with two birdies on his first five holes, the 15-time major champion and four-time Wanamaker Trophy winner labored ...

“Well, I just can’t load it,” Woods said when asked what his numerous injuries in his right leg, ankle and foot mean to his swing. On the par-4 ninth, he undercut his first flop shot from behind the green and had to hit another mini-flop shot. He had 85 yards for his third shot into the par-5 13th but blew it over into a back bunker (he saved par). On the par-4 first, he three-putted from just off the green from 60 feet. I was struggling trying to get the ball on the green, and I missed quite a few iron shots both ways. Pins, rods and needles were inserted to stabilize the leg, ankle and foot; many remain inside that lower portion of his body. “We’ll start the recovery process and get after it tomorrow.”

Can he hold off the likes of Dustin Johnson and Tiger Woods in Round 2? Coverage is free in some countries, so, whether you're looking for viewing online, on TV ...

Choose a free 14-day trial of Basic ($25 a month) or Premium ($35 a month) and cancel any time. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) helps you get around this obstacle. CBS has the best bits, including the all-important final round. 8 p.m.-conclusion, ESPN+ (streaming) For the golf, you may wish to choose 'US' for Paramount+. You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. 8 p.m.-conclusion, ESPN+ (streaming) Even if you have subscribed to the relevant 2022 PGA Championship rights holders, you won't be able to access them when outside your own country. Coverage is free in some countries, so, whether you're looking for viewing online, on TV, with cable or without, make sure you know how to watch a 2022 PGA Championship live stream from where you are. World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth are both eyeing up Grand Slams. Nonetheless, plenty of top players will be in action this weekend. Can he hold off the likes of Dustin Johnson and Tiger Woods in Round 2?

McIlroy dominated the early wave, while Thomas fought tougher conditions in the afternoon.

9. Low-energy finish: I was out with the top three players in the world -- Rahm (+3), Scheffler (+1) and Morikawa (+2) -- and the energy around their group was not tremendous. 8. John Daly, 56, injects excitement early: Daly, the 1991 PGA Championship winner, channeled his (much) younger self Thursday and shook up the leaderboard early in Round 1, going out in 34 and making a pair of birdies on the front nine. 5. Cameron Smith saves his round: The 2022 Players champion was 2 over after nine holes before ripping off five birdies in his first seven coming home and finding a spot at 2 under on the leaderboard. "It's definitely the ... most challenging sand I've ever played in just because, first off, it's not very consistent," said J.T. "... Some of them have no sand; some of them are good sand, whatever it is. (He was 139th in driving distance.) Playing partner McIlroy was sometimes 100 yards (!) ahead of him, and Tiger was at a massive disadvantage even to Jordan Spieth, who was also hitting driver (albeit not quite as well as McIlroy). Four American players in the last 40 years have got their first PGA Tour win at a major championship. They're the two to beat right now -- Caesars Sportsbook has McIlroy as the 3-1 favorite and Thomas at 7-1 just behind him -- and they should be in those respective positions. Thursday was a step backwards (literally and figuratively, perhaps) as Woods seemed to be in tremendous pain toward the end of his round. It's been nearly five years since his major win, and in that time, he has just four top 10s and even fewer real chances on the weekend. Thomas had that "I'm bending this course to my will" look in his eye as he birdied the last hole to shoot 32 on the back side after an up-and-down even-par 35 on the front. I felt like I did a good job of that -- just committing, trusting everything I was doing and just trying to make today as easy as I possibly could on myself." TULSA, Okla. -- Rory McIlroy shot the round of the day with his 65 to open the 2022 PGA Championship, but Justin Thomas followed him with an effort that was nearly as impressive.

How to watch the 2022 PGA Championship on Friday, including complete Round 2 tee times, TV schedule, streaming info and more.

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 56-year-old two-time major champion, whose booming drives propelled him to win the PGA in 1991, drove the slopes and swales of Southern Hills in a golf cart ...

“You want to be able to go into that hole on Sunday — whoever is going to win this tournament — you want to have a cushion. He qualified for the 2012 U.S. Open and finished tied for 51st. The 39-year-old Mueller spent eight years trying to scratch out a career in pro golf before diverting to teaching and club work. His biggest obstacles in Tulsa were a couple of water hazards he could drive around by going under the ropes and briefly into the gallery. Then he dunked the ball straight into the cup from 102 yards out. By the end, Daly's 2-over 72 left him in no mood to talk and he skipped post-round interviews.

PGA golfer John Daly has teed off at the 2022 PGA championship - puffing cigarettes, drinking many cans of coke and shoveling in half a dozen packs of M&M's ...

While Daly doesn't parade the standard tour physique, he can afford the luxuries of cigarettes and chocolate, as he was approved to drive a cart around tour back in 2019 due to osteoarthritis in his right knee. John Daly swings with iron in hand at the first round of the 2022 PGA championship, finishing tied 56th at +2 The 56-year-old cult hero teed off at 6:56am in the first grouping of the major tournament at Oklahoma, momentarily leading the pack after two birdies in his first five holes.

John Daly had himself a nice little Thursday in Oklahoma. The 56-year-old opened the 2022 PGA Championship with a very respectable 72, ...

In fact, his son, John Daly II, also inked a NIL deal with Hooters (of course) earlier this year. Of course, Daly has a long relationship with the chain. Well, make that a Tulsa location, because we're guessing it's not the only one in those parts.

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?

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.

Mother Nature has another challenge in store at the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Wind, and lots of it.

On Friday, the tee boxes have been moved 19 yards forward, so the hole, which plays directly into the south wind, plays to a yardage of 471 yards. Several hole locations and tee boxes have been adjusted with the wind in mind. The wind brings unpredictability, not just off the tee and with irons, but also on putts.