{"id":639252,"date":"2026-05-12T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639252\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:05:09","slug":"2026-pga-championship-tee-times-round-1-pairings-and-groups-for-field-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639252\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 PGA Championship tee times: Round 1 pairings and groups for field on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"john-rahm-rory-mcilroy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/john-rahm-rory-mcilroy.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The second major championship of the season is upon us, as the world&#8217;s best are set to battle it out at Aronimink Golf Club in Philadelphia for the Wanamaker Trophy at the 2026 PGA Championship. The tee times and groupings for the first round have now been released with some significant trios set to play together through the first two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest group of the morning wave on Thursday features Rory McIlroy, who will begin his bid to open 2026 with two major wins &#8212; and collect his third Wanamaker Trophy &#8212; at 8:40 a.m. ET playing with Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth, the latter of whom is trying to similarly complete the career grand slam. They will tee off on the 10th hole.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the McIlroy group is two former PGA winners, Xander Schauffele and Brooks Koepka, playing alongside Tyrrell Hatton at 8:29 a.m., as well as a group featuring Bryson DeChambeau, Ludvig \u00c5berg and Rickie Fowler teeing off at 8:18 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the opposite end of the tee sheet, reigning champion Scottie Scheffler will play alongside Matt Fitzpatrick and Justin Rose at 2:05 p.m. The hottest player on the PGA Tour, Cameron Young, will go off in the group ahead of Scheffler at 1:54 p.m. with Keegan Bradley and Justin Thomas. Other notable afternoon groups include Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry at 1:32 p.m. and Chris Gotterup, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood at 1:43 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the complete tee times and groupings for Thursday&#8217;s first round at Aronimink Golf Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All times Eastern<\/p>\n<p>2026 PGA Championship tee times, Thursday pairings\u00a0No. 1 tee6:45 a.m. \u2014 Braden Shattuck, Alex Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin6:56 a.m. \u2014 Francisco Bide, Harry Hall, Ryan Gerard7:07 a.m. \u2014 John Keefer, Rico Hoey, Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard7:18 a.m. \u2014 Shaun Micheel, Michael Brennan, Garrick Higgo7:29 a.m. \u2014 Y.E. Yang, Jhonattan Vegas, Matt McCarty7:40 a.m. \u2014 Lucas Glover, Tom McKibbin, Stephan Jaeger7:51 a.m. \u2014 Daniel Brown, Adrien Saddier, Harris English8:02 a.m. \u2014 Jacob Bridgeman, Bud Cauley, Alex Noren8:13 a.m. \u2014 Chris Kirk, Max Greyserman, Kristoffer Reitan8:24 a.m. \u2014 Maverick McNealy, Thomas Detry, Padraig Harrington8:35 a.m. \u2014 Ryan Lenahan, Ryan Fox, Kazuki Higa8:46 a.m. \u2014 Jared Jones, Michael Kim, Ryo Hisatsune8:57 a.m. \u2014 Tyler Collet, Kota Kaneko, Brandt Snedeker12:15 p.m. \u2014 Andrew Novak, John Parry, Jordan Gumberg12:26 p.m. \u2014 Ben Polland, Kurt Kitayama, Nico Echavarria12:37 p.m. \u2014 Akshay Bhatia, Ricky Castillo, Michael Thorbjornsen12:48 p.m. \u2014 Luke Donald, Jesse Droemer, Stewart Cink12:59 p.m. \u2014 Hideki Matsuyama, J.J. Spaun, Max Homa1:10 p.m. \u2014 Ben Kern, J.T. Poston, Russell Henley1:21 p.m. \u2014 Adam Scott, Corey Conners, Daniel Berger1:32 p.m. \u2014 Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry1:43 p.m. \u2014 Chris Gotterup, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood1:54 p.m. \u2014 Cameron Young, Keegan Bradley, Justin Thomas2:05 p.m. \u2014 Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose2:16 p.m. \u2014 Zach Haynes, Alex Smalley, Chandler Blanchet2:27 p.m. \u2014 Bernd Wiesberger, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Andy SullivanNo. 10 tee6:50 a.m. \u2014 Aldrich Potgieter, David Puig, Denny McCarthy7:01 a.m. \u2014 William Mouw, Chris Gabriele, Taylor Pendrith7:12 a.m. \u2014 Tom Hoge, Bryce Fisher, Joaquin Niemann7:23 a.m. \u2014 Keith Mitchell, Billy Horschel, Ian Holt7:34 a.m. \u2014 Gary Woodland, Jason Day, Sam Burns7:45 a.m. \u2014 Wyndham Clark, Cameron Smith, Brian Harman7:56 a.m. \u2014 Patrick Cantlay, Min Woo Lee, Sahith Theegala8:07 a.m. \u2014 Si Woo Kim, Derek Berg, Joe Highsmith8:18 a.m. \u2014 Bryson DeChambeau, Ludvig \u00c5berg, Rickie Fowler8:29 a.m. \u2014 Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka, Tyrrell Hatton8:40 a.m. \u2014 Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm8:51 a.m. \u2014 Daniel Hillier, Ryan Vermeer, Max McGreevy9:02 a.m. \u2014 Paul McClure, Mikael Lindberg, Angel Ayora12:10 p.m. \u2014 Michael Block, Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard, Dustin Johnson12:21 p.m. \u2014 Mark Geddes, Steven Fisk, David Lipsky12:32 p.m. \u2014 Sungjae Im, Austin Hurt, Casey Jarvis12:43 p.m. \u2014 Andrew Putnam, Michael Kartrude, Matt Wallace12:54 p.m. \u2014 Martin Kaymer, Elvis Smylie, Davis Riley1:05 p.m. \u2014 Jason Dufner, Haotong Li, Jimmy Walker1:16 p.m. \u2014 Nick Taylor, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Jordan Smith1:27 p.m. \u2014 Emiliano Grillo, Patrick Reed, Pierceson Coody1:38 p.m. \u2014 Brian Campbell, Adam Schenk, Christiaan Bezuidenhout1:49 p.m. \u2014 Marco Penge, Sepp Straka, Patrick Rodgers2 p.m. \u2014 Aaron Rai, Travis Smyth, Sami Valimaki2:11 p.m. \u2014 Sam Stevens, Jayden Schaper, Garrett Sapp2:22 p.m. \u2014 Timothy Wiseman, Matti Schmid, Austin Smotherman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The second major championship of the season is upon us, as the world&#8217;s best are set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[54639,15635,427,235323,126994,235322,14192,6082,59390,275958,48093,99,216471,16597],"class_list":["post-639252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-54639","tag-field","tag-golf","tag-groupings","tag-groups","tag-pairings","tag-pga-championship","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-rory-mcilroy-tee-time","tag-round-1","tag-scottie-scheffler-tee-time","tag-sports","tag-tee-times","tag-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}