US PGA Championship 2024: first round – live

The PGA Championship likes to throw up a winner in left field every now and then – Mark Brooks won here at Valhalla in 1996, to pluck one example from the ether – so why not this year? The usual suspects are the favorites to succeed, but consider: Scottie Scheffler just became a father, Rory McIlroy just announced his divorce, Jon Rahm is going through a tour-based existential crisis and defending champion Brooks Koepka has put himself through some things. ‘punishment training’ in the hope of increasing his competitive advantage. So maybe it’s time for a big break for the likes of Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay or Tommy Fleetwood? Could be, could be.

Once more, Scheffler has won four of the last five tournaments he has entered, finishing tied for second in the other, a run that earned him the Players and the Masters; Rory has won in his last two outings; Rahm’s tournament drought can’t last forever; and Koepka also has a victory, having won the Wanamaker Trophy three times in the last six years. So you know.

Here are the start times for the first round (US unless otherwise stated, all times BST) starting at hole 1…

1215 Michael Block, Luke Donald (Eng), Shaun Micheel
1226 Jeffrey Kellen, Ben Kohles, Alex Smalley
1237 Ryan Fox (Nzl), Josh Speight, Matt Wallace (Eng)
1248 Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Zac Oakley, Adam Svensson (Can)
1259 Adam Hadwin (Can), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Taylor Pendrith (Can)
1310 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Alexander Bjoerk (Zwe), Eric Cole
1321 Corey Conners (Can), Nick Dunlap, Adam Schenk
1332 John Daly, Lee Hodges, Robert MacIntyre (Sco)
1343 Kurt Kitayama, Peter Malnati, Victor Perez (Fra)
1354 Zachary Blair, Ben Polland, Ryan van Velzen (Rsa)
1405 Kyoung-Hoon Lee (Kor), Sami Valimaki (Fin), Jeremy Wells
1416 Jared Jones, Taylor Moore, Patrick Rodgers
1427 Kyle Mendoza, Andy Ogletree, Erik van Rooyen (Rsa)
1745 Matt Dobyns, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), David Puig (Spa)
1756 Denny McCarthy, Keita Nakajima (Jpn), Tracy Phillips
1807 Cameron Davis (Aus), Harris English, Talor Gooch
1818 Jason Day (Aus), Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Shane Lowry (Irl)
1829 Billy Horschel, Chris Kirk, Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
1840 Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Gary Woodland
1851 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Phil Mickelson, Collin Morikawa
1902 Rickie Fowler, Jon Rahm (Spa), Cameron Young
1913 Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Scottie Scheffler
1924 Patrick Cantlay, Camilo Villegas (Colonel), Will Zalatoris
1935 Sam Burns, Padraig Harrington (Irl), Patrick Reed
1946 Mark Hubbard, Brad Marek, Maverick McNealy
1957 Seong-Hyeon Kim (Kor), Braden Shattuck, Chengtsung Pan (Tai)

…and starting at hole 10…

1220 Tyler Collet, Doug Ghim, Adrian Meronk (Pol)
1231 Larkin Gross, Lucas Herbert (Aus), Grayson Murray
1242 Lucas Glover, Russell Henley, Stephan Jaeger (Ger)
1253 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas
1304 Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott (Aus), Tiger Woods
1315 Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Justin Rose (Eng)
1326 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Cameron Smith (Aus)
1337 Max Homa, Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth
1348 Tony Finau, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Sahith Theegala
1359 Akshay Bhatia, Bryson DeChambeau, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)
1410 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Sepp Straka (Aut), Nick Taylor (Can)
1421 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Ben Griffin, Andrew Svoboda
1432 Preston Cole, Adrian Otaegui (Spa), Tim Widing (Swe)
1740 Rich Beem, Kazuma Kobori (Jpn), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe)
1751 Josh Bevell, Aaron Rai (English), Jordan Smith (English)
1802 Charley Hoffman, Jesse Mueller, Andrew Putnam
1813 Tom Hoge, Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Alexander Noren (Swe)
1824 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), JT Poston, Yong-Eun Yang (Kor)
1835 Jason Dufner, Jake Knapp, Francesco Molinari (Italy)
1846 Thomas Detry (Bel), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Jimmy Walker
1857 Austin Eckroat, Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Luke List
1908 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Beau Hossler, Sung-Jae Im (Kor)
1919 Keith Mitchell, Thorbjoern Olesen (Den), Brendon Todd
1930 Brice Garnett, John Somers, Jesper Svensson (Swe)
1941 Evan Bowser, Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Alejandro Tosti (Arg)
1952 Chris Gotterup, Vincent Norrman (Swe), Wyatt Worthington II

It is on!