{"id":668964,"date":"2026-05-14T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:18:08","slug":"2026-pga-championship-live-updates-rory-mcilroy-starts-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668964\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 PGA Championship live updates: Rory McIlroy starts Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">The 2026 PGA Championship is underway at <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/travel\/pga-site-aronimink-philadelphia-best-courses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aronimink Golf Club<\/a>. Some of golf\u2019s biggest stars \u2014 such as <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/rory-mcilroy-laments-nonexistent-driver-strategy-pga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/jordan-spieth-weird-strategy-complete-grand-slam-pga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Spieth<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/bryson-dechambeau-2-demands-pga-tour-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> \u2014 are on the course early in Thursday\u2019s opening round. Others, such as defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/pga-champions-dinner-scottie-scheffler-greatness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, kick off their rounds later in the day. GOLF\u2019s writers and editors are providing live updates on the PGA Championship first round all day long, from on-site at Aronimink and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>PGA Round 1: What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the first round of the PGA Championship, the biggest stars in recent years are capturing most of the attention. McIlroy won his second Masters title in April and seems primed for a run at PGA victory No. 3. Scheffler, who finished second to McIlroy at Augusta, is in fine form and hungry to repeat as PGA Champion this week.<\/p>\n<p>Other players to watch out for on Day 1 are <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/gear\/golf-balls\/cameron-young-golf-ball-rollback-conform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Young<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/matt-fitzpatrick-pga-championship-scottie-scheffler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a>, arguably the two hottest players right now, and Spieth, who is attempting to complete the career Grand Slam this week.<\/p>\n<p>Notable Round 1 tee times: Bryson DeChambeau (8:18 a.m. ET); Rory McIlroy (8:40 a.m. ET); Jon Rahm (8:40 a.m. ET); Jordan Spieth (8:40 a.m. ET); Cameron Young (1:54 p.m. ET); Scottie Scheffler (2:05 p.m. ET); Matt Fitzpatrick (2:05 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p>Quick links: <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/2026-pga-championship-thursday-tv-coverage-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How to watch the PGA Thursday<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/2026-pga-championship-thursday-tee-times-groupings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PGA Round 1 tee times<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgachampionship.com\/leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Scores on PGAChampionship.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow all the Round 1 PGA Championship action below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 PGA Championship is underway at Aronimink Golf Club. Some of golf\u2019s biggest stars \u2014 such as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-668964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}