No.1 Scheffler to start PGA with Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick / Photo: Michael Reaves - GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP
No.1 Scheffler to start PGA with Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick
Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler will tee off alongside England's Justin Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick when the 108th PGA Championship begins on Thursday at Aronimink.
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. (1805 GMT) 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.
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