Month: May 2024

From Thursday, 16th May on, the stars of the golf world will be battling it out for the Wanamaker Trophy at the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. 156 golfers are in the field.

After several delays the final round can start as originally scheduled at 1:45 PM. Players will now all start from tee 1 and play in flights of 2. A staked leaderboard awaits with Xander Schauffele and Colin Morikawa tied for the lead, followed by Saith Theegala on 3 and Shane Lowry, Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland tied for 4th place.

PGA Championship 2024: Rory McIlroy’s Tee Time

Rory McIlroy will start his final round at 12:45 PM with Tom Kim.

Tee Times PGA Championship 2024 Round 4

Tee Time	Hole	Player 1	Player 2
7:45	1	Jeremy Wells ()	Alejandro Tosti ()
7:55	1	Sebastian Söderberg ()	Brendon Todd ()
8:05	1	Rasmus Højgaard ()	Jordan Smith ()
8:15	1	S.H. Kim ()	Dustin Johnson ()
8:25	1	Andrew Putnam ()	Ryan Fox ()
8:35	1	Talor Gooch ()	Stephan Jaeger ()
8:45	1	Adam Hadwin ()	Erik van Rooyen ()
8:55	1	Gary Woodland ()	Grayson Murray ()
9:05	1	Patrick Cantlay ()	Luke Donald ()
9:15	1	Tommy Fleetwood ()	Jesper Svensson ()
9:25	1	Joaquin Niemann ()	Rickie Fowler ()
9:35	1	Patrick Reed ()	Cameron Young ()
9:45	1	Braden Shattuck ()	Byeong Hun An ()
10:05	1	Brooks Koepka ()	Nicolai Højgaard ()
10:15	1	Adam Svensson ()	Thorbjørn Olesen ()
10:25	1	Alexander Björk ()	Lucas Glover ()
10:35	1	Tyrrell Hatton ()	Corey Conners ()
10:45	1	Brian Harman ()	Martin Kaymer ()
10:55	1	Brice Garnett ()	Min Woo Lee ()
11:05	1	Kurt Kitayama ()	Will Zalatoris ()
11:15	1	Ben Kohles ()	Cameron Smith ()
11:25	1	Doug Ghim ()	Alex Noren ()
11:35	1	Jason Day ()	Zac Blair ()
11:45	1	Maverick McNealy ()	Billy Horschel ()
12:05	1	Max Homa ()	Tom Hoge ()
12:15	1	Scottie Scheffler ()	Mark Hubbard ()
12:25	1	Aaron Rai ()	Matt Wallace ()
12:35	1	Hideki Matsuyama ()	Ryo Hisatsune ()
12:45	1	Rory McIlroy ()	Tom Kim ()
12:55	1	Jordan Spieth ()	Russell Henley ()
13:05	1	Keegan Bradley ()	Taylor Moore ()
13:15	1	Thomas Detry ()	Lucas Herbert ()
13:25	1	Harris English ()	Austin Eckroat ()
13:35	1	Justin Thomas ()	Tony Finau ()
13:55	1	Dean Burmester ()	Lee Hodges ()
14:05	1	Justin Rose ()	Robert MacIntyre ()
14:15	1	Bryson DeChambeau ()	Viktor Hovland ()
14:25	1	Sahith Theegala ()	Shane Lowry ()
14:35	1	Xander Schauffele ()	Collin Morikawa ()

Scottie Scheffler went into the PGA Championship 2024 as one of the most dangerous favorites and lived up to this position in the first two rounds despite being arrested in the meantime. On Moving Day, however, he had an extremely bad day by his standards, which dropped him down the leaderboard to 24th place.

Setback at the 2024 PGA Championship for Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler’s start to the round was a big surprise. The world number 1 initially moved down the leaderboard on Moving Day. After his tee shot on hole 2 landed in the fairway bunker, he also failed to play around and onto the green, meaning Scheffler recorded a 6 on the par-4. This was followed by two bogeys and a score that the world number one has rarely presented to us in recent months and years. Scheffler kept his head above water with two birdies on holes 5 and 7 before a fourth slip-up followed: Bogey number 3 on hole 8.

Scheffler was not spared from losing strokes on the back nine either. He made two more birdies, which were stifled by a bogey on the following hole. At least he finished his round with a birdie on the 18th. At two strokes over par, the favorite for the title lost touch with the leaders on moving day.

Tension on the last 18 holes

With a total of seven strokes under par, Scottie Scheffler is tied 24th after 54 holes. He is therefore eight strokes behind the two leaders: Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa. The two golfers were already neck-and-neck on Saturday, so an exciting final can be expected. In addition, they are under pressure from a tight chasing pack that includes Bryson DeChambeau and Shane Lowry.

Rory McIlroy experienced an up-and-down Moving Day, and although he posted a very good score on the first half of the round, he “only” managed a 68, three shots under par. He was unable to close the gap on the leader of the PGA Championship 2024 by much, so he will have to hope for a miracle in the final to have a chance of winning.

PGA Championship 2024

Rory McIlroy’s start on Moving Day was a little bumpy. The Northern Irishman was shaken awake by a bogey on his very first hole, the par 4-1. What followed was a race to catch up, as we know it from McIlroy. A birdie on the 4th was followed by a birdie series of four birdies and thus a rise up the leaderboard. He suffered a setback on the par-3 14th when his tee shot clearly missed the green and McIlroy only sank the ball in the hole with his fourth shot. Another bogey followed on hole 16, but McIlroy still managed a conciliatory finish when he managed a final stroke gain on the final hole.

Rory McIlroy: “I may rue that six-hole stretch where I wasn’t able to hole any putts”

Rory McIlroy sums up after the round: “Yeah, really got it going around the turn there to get to 4-under, and then I kept hitting good shots and had good looks at 11, 12 and 13, 15. Then I made two bogeys with a missed putt on 14, a three-putt. Yeah, there was a six-hole stretch there, seven-hole stretch where just sort of the putter cooled on me. Depending on what happens tomorrow, that’s sort of the – if I look back on the tournament, I may rue that six-hole stretch where I wasn’t able to hole any putts.” Nevertheless, he is confident: “I have to go out there and try to shoot a low one. I putted really well on Thursday, and then just the last couple days it’s sort of deserted me. Yeah, I need the putter to sort of heat up again, and with everything else it’s doing, there’s certainly another low one in me.”