PGA Championship 2022

Hello, friends, and welcome to the second major of the 2022 PGA Tour season.We're at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week for the PGA ...

The combination of these two injuries has sapped all momentum from a player who was last season at the Ryder Cup waving his driver in the air like a sword after driving the green on No. 1 in Sunday singles, happily getting along with all his teammates and turning a lot of jeers into cheers that week. DeChambeau underwent hand surgery after last month's Masters, during which he went 76-80 and missed the cut by eight strokes. Max Homa is sitting here at +6600, and I’m thinking that’s really good value for someone with two PGA Tour wins this season, plus another two top 10s and four top 20s. Here’s a look at McIlroy’s first and second rounds in the last nine major tournaments. He’s No. 7 in strokes gained off the tee, per DataGolf, and he’s proven he has the ability to get near the top of these top-tier leaderboards. Mickelson pulled out last week, an extremely rare occurrence for the previous year’s winner, and that will result in more attention being played to the golf.

How it works: Each week, our experts from PGATOUR.COM will make their selections in PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf. Each lineup consists of four starters and two ...

Then click on "FEATURED," and then on the PGA TOUR Experts league that populates. The PGA TOUR Experts league is once again open to the public. Adding to the challenge is that every golfer can be used only three times per each of four Segments.

Mike Stachura is still not over the fact that the PGA Championship has moved to May, but it doesn't stop him from doing what he does—make a pick that is ...

No player in the field other than Tiger Woods has won more pro events in the month of May than Rory McIlroy (Woods has eight, McIlroy has seven). He is Mr. May, which sort of says a lot. So I added them up, and, of course still not much clarity, not the right amount of spice for the price (see PGA Championship concession stands). One more thing probably matters in my misplaced major metrics. How about some biorhythms (which, as it turns out was not, but could have been, quite the pickup line in Tulsa in the 1980s)? If a major has relocated to the month of May, surely, someone’s career success in May should be the clincher for my pick. The thing of it is, I want the PGA Championship to feel like August again. (Like the collection of chain saws in that weird neighbor’s garage right next to the oversized spare freezer, this should be a sign that I again am choosing poorly.) I blame global warming or COVID or whatever it is that has turned April and much of May up here in the Northeast to a kind of nuclear-winter-meets-Yakutsk. The PGA is firmly in May now, and it is once again my appointed task to embarrass myself with my historically and unequivocally incorrect major championship prediction. So, to build some August feeling into my PGA Championship calculus, I first culled the field to only those who had played a PGA in August. Turns out, that didn’t help much. Duh, the PGA was played in August two years ago because of the pandemic. I miss the PGA Championship in August. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for sweat-stained Dockers (Tom Lehman at Valhalla in 2000, look it up), ice cream as a beverage or how the difference between the temperature on the golf course at a PGA Championship and that of the media center equates approximately to the difference between the temperature on Venus and Uranus (about 1,200 degrees, give or take). Repositioning it in May just seems like making it less of a major. Or going stag to your prom (not that I would know). Or finding out that Pluto isn’t really a planet. But like the idiot in front of you at CVS with a roll of receipts he swears are coupons, I press on undeterred.

Woods, McIlroy and Spieth headline several high-wattage tee times for the first two rounds of the 2022 PGA Championship.

9:50 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert 8:49 a.m. – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas He'll play with Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa at 1:36 p.m. On Friday they'll go early, 8:11 a.m. 8:27 a.m. – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin 9:50 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert 9:06 a.m. – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ 3:15 p.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert 2:31 p.m. – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ 9:44 a.m. – Cameron Young, Sam Burns, Davis Riley 1:52 p.m. – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin 8:55 a.m. – Matt Kuchar, Cameron Davis, Rikuya Hoshino Woods is a three-winner at the PGA, while McIlroy has won this event twice.

1 on any list of best or most likely to win any tournament in the world right now. 2022 PGA Championship field, ranked. 1. Scottie Scheffler (Best finish -- T4 in 2020): Scheffler has quietly become a ...

19. Max Homa (T64 in 2013): Homa has not been good at major championships to this point in his career, but he's also not been as good at any point in his career as he is right now. 22. Keegan Bradley (Won in 2011): The winner of the PGA at Atlanta Athletic Club is having a tremendous year with more top fives than he's had since the 2017-18 PGA Tour season. 18. Sam Burns (T29 in 2019): He might be the least talked about young American star (as defined by his rise into the top 10 in the world) of the last 20 years. 13. Viktor Hovland (T30 in 2021): Hovland leads the field in strokes gained ball-striking in his last 20 rounds, but there's a potentially fatal flaw as it relates to his game, specifically on this golf course. On the third hand (if you have a third hand), he also missed the cut at the Masters and withdrew from the AT&T Byron Nelson last week. He's made the cut in four of his last six and all four have resulted in top 10 finishes, including last year's PGA where he notched a top 10 behind Mickelson and Brooks Koepka at the top. On one hand, he absolutely destroys worlds at majors (15 top 10s in his last 25 majors). On the other hand, he's been a worse ball-striker than Seamus Power, Hudson Swafford and Kevin Streelman over his last 20 rounds. After winning The Open Championship in 2019, I thought he was a one-and-done major winner, but it's clear that he's going to mix it up at a few more as he ages into his late 30s and could end up winning at least one more before he finishes his career. 1. Scottie Scheffler (Best finish -- T4 in 2020): Scheffler has quietly become a major championship threat, and that has less to do with his Masters win in April and more to do with how he's played at the four biggest events since 2020. If this golf course does play like Augusta National, as has been insinuated this week, then McIlroy should thrive (he's been unbelievable there), and the two things I'm most interested in are his start (see below) and how his short game (tremendous this season) holds up at Southern Hills. It could be one of the sneaky interesting parts of this week if he's in contention. The first is that playing well at the first major of the year speaks to the kind of shape your overall game is in, and the second is that Southern Hills is being talked about as a facsimile for Augusta National in terms of how it's going to play. I have some mild concerns about his accuracy off the tee and some serious ones about his ability to cash in with the putter, but this is the perfect golf course for him to go dominate for four straight days.

A complete listing of the Thursday and Friday starting times at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla.

2:15 p.m.: Pablo Larrazabal, Ryan Fox, Shawn Warren (club pro) 9:06 a.m.: Bernd Wiesberger, Jhonattan Vegas, Alex Beach (club pro) 2:31 p.m.: Brian Harman, Oliver Bekker, Ryan Vermeer (club pro) 9:01 a.m.: Chan Kim, Maverick McNealy, Tyler Collet (club pro) 7:22 a.m.: Rich Beem, Alex Cejka, Jesse Mueller (club pro) 7:11 a.m.: Anirban Lahiri, K.H. Lee, Tim Feenstra (club pro) 9:06 a.m.: Brian Harman, Oliver Bekker, Ryan Vermeer (club pro) 9:12 a.m.: Brendan Steele, Bio Kim, Casey Pyne (club pro) 8:50 a.m.: Pablo Larrazabal, Ryan Fox, Shawn Warren (club pro) 7:11 a.m.: Takumi Kanaya,Troy Merritt; Matthew Borchert (club pro) Arguably the most notable name is the one missing from the list, the PGA of America announcing last Friday that defending champion Phil Mickelson had withdrawn from the championship as he continues his sabbatical from golf. In 2018, the Perry Maxwell course underwent an extensive restoration from Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. The duo thinned out many of the course’s trees and pushed fairway lines out to the original Depression-era dimensions.