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PGA Championship Features Dynamic Groupings

It took four months of waiting, but the first (and only) major championship of 2019-20 season has finally arrived with the 102nd PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park teeing off on Thursday. The golf world has turned its attention to the San Francisco area for this rescheduled, back-to-August edition of the championship that is set to include 95 of the top 100 players in the Official World Golf Rankings along with 20 PGA of America professionals from across the country. 

 

The headlines for the event are plentiful, even without considering the absence of fans or the change in date amid the coronavirus. Two-time winner Brooks Koepka is chasing history to become the first player to win three straight since Walter Hagen captured four straight in the 1920s. Jordan Spieth is chasing the career grand slam. And because of the shifts in the PGA Tour schedule, the PGA Championship is the penultimate event before the beginning of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. 

 

Tiger Woods is also looking to win his 16th major championship and 83rd PGA Tour event, which would break the tie for first with Sam Snead and make him the winningest player in tour history. 

All of these storylines and more -- including Bryson DeChambeau's first major since bulking up, Jon Rahm looking to reclaim the No. 1 ranking in the world and newly-minuted No. 1 Justin Thomas adding a second Wanamaker Trophy to his rapidly expanding trophy case -- will converge when the action gets underway on Thursday.

 

2020 PGA Championship tee times, Thursday pairings

 

Tee No. 1

 

4:14 p.m. -- Kevin Na, Patrick Reed, Robert MacIntyre
4:25 p.m. -- Matthew Wolff, Bubba Watson, Graeme McDowell
4:36 p.m. -- Tommy Fleetwood, Viktor Hovland, Hideki Matsuyama
4:47 p.m. -- Rickie Fowler, Bryson DeChambeau, Adam Scott
4:58 p.m. -- Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia

 

Tee No. 10

 

10:27 a.m. -- Tony Finau, Danny Willett, Patrick Cantlay
10:38 a.m. -- Martin Kaymer, Jason Dufner, Jason Day
10:49 a.m. -- Daniel Berger, Xander Schauffele, Steve Stricker
11 a.m. -- Henrik Stenson, Collin Morikawa, Zach Johnson
11:11 a.m. -- Brooks Koepka, Gary Woodland, Shane Lowry
11:22 a.m. -- Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose
11:33 a.m. -- Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas
12:06 p.m. -- Corey Conners, Zach J. Johnson, Chez Reavie

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