If you’re not satisfied with the storylines heading into the 2025 PGA Championship, then golf probably isn’t your thing. Entering the second men’s major championship of the year, there are so many plots and subplots to follow at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., we’re afraid we might run out of energy just typing them.
There’s Rory McIlroy trying to follow up his Masters victory on a course where he’s won FOUR times in his career.
There’s Jordan Spieth trying to follow up Rory McIlroy and become the seventh golfer to win the career Grand Slam.
There’s Scottie Scheffler trying to follow up his dominant Byron Nelson win and put to rest any doubts that he’s still deserving of his World No. 1 ranking.
There’s Bryson DeChambeau trying to follow up his string of impressive major performances as he nearly single-handedly carries the banner for LIV Golf.
Have we left out anybody? Oh, how about defending champion Xander Schauffele looking solid as he aims to keep possession of the Wanamaker Trophy. Or Justin Thomas, who claimed the first of his two PGA Championship titles at Quail Hollow in 2017 and is fresh off a win at Hilton Head.
Seriously, this is an embarrassment of riches that we all can just hope will play out with a crammed leaderboard and leading up to Sunday fireworks.
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But before getting to the final round, we’ve got to work our way into the championship on Thursday and Friday. The PGA of America has yet to release the tee times for the first and second rounds, but check back here and we’ll have them posted as soon as they go live.
Below are the 154 players already in the field for the championship. Two spots are being held for the winner of the Truist Championship and the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic if he hasn’t already qualified.
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Few golf course projects had more national attention in recent years than Quail Hollow, mainly because its front nine was redesigned just a year before it hosted the 2017 PGA Championship. The par-4 first and par-3 second holes were completely torn up, replaced by a new long dogleg-right par-4 opening hole. Several acres of pines to the left of the fifth tee were removed to make room for a new par-3 fourth. (With its knobby green fronted by three traps, it proved to be the most frustrating hole for pros in the 2017 PGA.) More pines were removed to the left of the par-4 11th, replaced by bunkers, and even more trees chopped down on a hill left of the par-4 18th to make room for money-making hospitality boxes. There’s no question that this latest remodeling, rushed though it was, improved the course. Quail Hollow hosted the 2022 Presidents Cup (the order of the holes were rearranged to ensure the majority of matches would reach the vaunted Green Mile, 16-18) and the 2025 PGA Championship. View Course
Ludvig Aberg
Byeong Hun An
Daniel Berger
Brian Bergstol
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Akshay Bhatia
Brandon Bingaman
Richard Bland
Michael Block
Keegan Bradley
Jacob Bridgeman
Dean Burmester
Sam Burns
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Brian Campbell
Rafael Campos
Laurie Canter
Patrick Cantlay
John Caitin
Bud Cauley
Eugenio Chacarra
Andre Chi
Wyndham Clark
Eric Cole
Tyler Collet
Corey Conners
Cam Davis
Jason Day
Bryson DeChambeau
Thomas Detry
Luke Donald
Jesse Droemer
Jason Dufner
Nick Dunlap
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Nico Echavarria
Austin Eckroat
Harris English
Tony Finau
Patrick Fishburn
Matt Fitzpatrick
Tommy Fleetwood
Rickie Fowler
Sergio Garcia
Bobby Gates
Ryan Gerard
Lucas Glover
Max Greyserman
Ben Griffin
Larkin Gross
Adam Hadwin
Harry Hall
Brian Harman
Padraig Harrington
Tyrrell Hatton
Russell Henley
Justin Hicks
Garrick Higgo
Joe Highsmith
Ryo Hisatune
Lee Hodges
Rico Hoey
Tom Hoge
Nicolai Højgaard
Rasmus Højgaard
Max Homa
Beau Hossler
Viktor Hovland
Mackenzie Hughes
Sungjae Im
Nic Ishee
Stephan Jaeger
Dustin Johnson
Tom Johnson
Takumi Kanaya
Michael Kartrude
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Martin Kaymer
John Keefer
Michael Kim
Si Woo Kim
Tom Kim
Chris Kirk
Kurt Kitayama
Patton Kizzire
Jake Knapp
Greg Koch
Brooks Koepka
Thriston Lawrence
Min Woo Lee
Ryan Lenahan
Justin Lower
Shane Lowry
Robert MacIntyre
Hideki Matsuyama
Denny McCarthy
Matt McCarty
Max McGreevy
Rory McIlroy
Tom McKibbin
Maverick McNealy
Shaun Micheel
Phil Mickelson
Keith Mitchell
Taylor Moore
Collin Morikawa
Keita Nakajima
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
Dylan Newman
Joaquin Niemann
Alex Noren
Niklas Norgaard
Andrew Novak
Thorbjorn Olesen
John Parry
Matthieu Pavon
Taylor Pendrith
Marco Penge
J.T. Poston
Seamus Power
David Puig
Jon Rahm
Aaron Rai
Patrick Reed
Davis Riley
Patrick Rodgers
Justin Rose
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Adam Scott
Vijay Singh
Cameron Smith
Elvis Smylie
John Somers
Bob Sowards
J.J. Spaun
Jordan Spiet
Eric Steger
Sam Stevens
Sepp Straka
Nick Taylor
Rupe Taylor
Sahith Theegala
Justin Thomas
Davis Thompson
Sami Valimaki
Erik van Rooyan
Daniel van Tonder
Jhonattan Vegas
Karl Vilips
Jimmy Walker
Matt Wallace
Timothy Wiseman
Gary Woodland
Cameron Young
Kevin Yu
Will Zalatoris
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
