PGA Championship 2023 Tee Times: Pairings Announced for 1st, 2nd Rounds at Oak Hill
The PGA Championship announced its first- and second-round tee times Monday ahead of this week's tournament at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York.
Defending champion Justin Thomas was matched up with Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa for what will be one of the most closely followed groupings over the first two days. They'll tee off at 8:11 a.m. ET on Thursday and 1:36 p.m. ET on Friday.
Jon Rahm, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Cameron Smith were placed together as well. They're first, seventh and eighth, respectively, in the World Golf Ranking. They'll get underway at 8:33 a.m. ET for Round 1 and 1:58 p.m. ET for Round 2.
Scottie Scheffler is the slight betting favorite (+700) to win the 2023 PGA Championship at DraftKings Sportsbook. The 2022 Masters champion has two victories and nine top-10 finishes in 13 PGA Tour starts this season.
Scheffler, Brooks Koepka and Gary Woodland make up another one of the highly anticipated groupings. Koepka is a two-time winner of the PGA Championship, and his runner-up showing in the Masters earlier this year showed he hasn't lost any of his sharpness on the LIV Golf circuit.
At +750, Rahm is running just behind Scheffler in the DraftKings moneyline. He already has four wins in 2023, the most recent of which was the Masters in April.
McIlroy will be looking to kick things into gear at Oak Hill. He carried high hopes into Augusta National Golf Club a little over a month ago but missed the cut entirely.
The No. 3 golfer in the world then took a bit of a break to mentally reset, which resulted in him forfeiting a portion of his Player Impact Program earnings for missing a second "elevated event." In his return at the Wells Fargo Championship, he finished at even par to tie for 47th.
Among the other notable entrants, Bryson DeChambeau will start from the 10th tee at 9:06 a.m. ET on Thursday alongside Keegan Bradley and Jason Day. Phil Mickelson will start at 1:58 p.m. ET from the first tee with Patrick Cantlay and Rickie Fowler. They'll follow Xander Schauffele, Tyrrell Hatton and Dustin Johnson. Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland and Shane Lowry will tee off bright and early at 8:22 a.m. ET from No. 10.
