Five South Africans including Jayden Schaper, who is making his PGA Champonship debut, are ready for the 108th playing of the Major which begins on Thursday at Aronimink.
Aldrich Potgieter is an early starter when he begins at 12:50pm (SA time) alongside David Puig and Denny McCarty.
At 13:18, Garrick Higgo begins his quest to lift the Wanamaker Trophy while Casey Jarvis has Sung-Jae Im for company in the 18:32 tee time.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout is off at 19:38 with Schaper the last Saffa out at 20:11 SA time.
Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler will tee off alongside England’s Justin Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick.
The PGA of America announced tee times on Tuesday for the event, with four-time major winner Scheffler of the United States joining 2013 US Open winner Rose and 2022 US Open champion Fitzpatrick at 2:05 p.m. (20: 05 SA time) on Thursday off the first tee.
The grouping means Fitzpatrick, a three-time PGA Tour winner this season, will not be joined by younger brother Alex, who is off to a hot PGA Tour start since sharing a pairs win with Matt in April at New Orleans.
Alex Fitzpatrick tees off at the first hole in the first group of the event at 6:45 a.m. Thursday alongside Americans Ben Griffin and Braden Shattuck.
Rory McIlroy, coming off his sixth major triumph last month at the Masters, will start at 8:40 a.m. Thursday off the 10th tee alongside Spain’s Jon Rahm and American Jordan Spieth over the 7,394-yard, par-70 layout.
The world number two from Northern Ireland will try to become the first player since Jack Nicklaus in 1975 to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year.
Spieth would complete a career Grand Slam with a victory while Rahm would become the first Spaniard to capture the PGA Championship.
World number three Cameron Young will be joined Thursday at 1:54 p.m. on the first tee by fellow Americans Keegan Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner, and Justin Thomas, who took the PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022.
Xander Schauffele, the 2024 PGA Championship and British Open winner, will tee off on the 10th hole at 8:29 a.m. Thursday alongside fellow American Brooks Koepka, a five-time major winner, and Englnd’s Tyrrell Hatton.
1st Tee
- 12:45pm: Braden Shattuck, Alex Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin
- 12:56pm: Francisco Bide, Harry Hall, Ryan Gerard
- 1:07pm: Johnny Keefer, Rico Hoey, Nicolai Højgaard
- 1:18pm: Shaun Micheel, Michael Brennan, Garrick Higgo
- 1:29pm: Y.E. Yang, Jhonattan Vegas, Matt McCarty
- 1:40pm: Lucas Glover, Tom McKibbin, Stephan Jaeger
- 1:51pm: Daniel Brown, Adrien Saddier, Harris English
- 2:02pm: Jacob Bridgeman, Bud Cauley, Alex Noren
- 2:13pm: Chris Kirk, Max Greyserman, Kristoffer Reitan
- 2:24pm: Maverick McNealy, Thomas Detry, Padraig Harrington
- 2:35pm: Ryan Lenahan, Ryan Fox, Kazuki Higa
- 2:46pm: Jared Jones, Michael Kim, Ryo Hisatsune
- 2:57pm: Tyler Collet, Kota Kaneko, Brandt Snedeker
- 6:15pm: Andrew Novak, John Parry, Jordan Gumberg
- 6:26pm: Ben Polland, Kurt Kitayama, Nico Echavarria
- 6:37pm: Akshay Bhatia, Ricky Castillo, Michael Thorbjornsen
- 6:48pm: Luke Donald, Jesse Droemer, Stewart Cink
- 6:59pm: Hideki Matsuyama, J.J. Spaun, Max Homa
- 7:10pm: Ben Kern, J.T. Poston, Russell Henley
- 7:21pm: Adam Scott, Corey Conners, Daniel Berger
- 7:32pm: Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry
- 7:43pm: Chris Gotterup, Robert MacIntyre, Tommy Fleetwood
- 7:54pm: Cameron Young, Keegan Bradley, Justin Thomas
- 8:05pm: Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose
- 8:16pm: Zach Haynes, Alex Smalley, Chandler Blanchet
- 8:27pm: Bernd Wiesberger, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Andy Sullivan
10th Tee
- 12:50pm: Aldrich Potgieter, David Puig, Denny McCarthy
- 1:01pm: William Mouw, Chris Gabriele, Taylor Pendrith
- 1:12pm: Tom Hoge, Bryce Fisher, Joaquin Niemann
- 1:23pm: Keith Mitchell, Billy Horschel, Ian Holt
- 1:34pm: Gary Woodland, Jason Day, Sam Burns
- 1:45pm: Wyndham Clark, Cameron Smith, Brian Harman
- 1:56pm: Patrick Cantlay, Min Woo Lee, Sahith Theegala
- 2:07pm: Si Woo Kim, Derek Berg, Joe Highsmith
- 2:18pm: Bryson DeChambeau, Ludvig Åberg, Rickie Fowler
- 2:29pm: Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka, Tyrrell Hatton
- 2:40pm: Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm
- 2:51pm: Daniel Hillier, Ryan Vermeer, Max McGreevy
- 3:02pm: Paul McClure, Mikael Lindberg, Angel Ayora
- 6:10pm: Michael Block, Rasmus Højgaard, Dustin Johnson
- 6:21pm: Mark Geddes, Steven Fisk, David Lipsky
- 6:32pm: Sungjae Im, Austin Hurt, Casey Jarvis
- 6:43pm: Andrew Putnam, Michael Kartrude, Matt Wallace
- 6:54pm: Martin Kaymer, Elvis Smylie, Davis Riley
- 7:05pm: Jason Dufner, Haotong Li, Jimmy Walker
- 7:16pm: Nick Taylor, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Jordan Smith
- 7:27pm: Emiliano Grillo, Patrick Reed, Pierceson Coody
- 7:38pm: Brian Campbell, Adam Schenk, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- 7:49pm: Marco Penge, Sepp Straka, Patrick Rodgers
- 8:00pm: Aaron Rai, Travis Smyth, Sami Valimaki
- 8:11pm: Sam Stevens, Jayden Schaper, Garrett Sapp
- 8:22pm: Timothy Wiseman, Matti Schmid, Austin Smotherman
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