The PGA Championship is back on schedule following a Saturday scramble in St. Louis. After rain washed out much of Friday afternoon’s play, we spent Saturday playing three-plus hours of the second round, making a cut, and then finishing up the third round into the evening. No further delays led to a smooth day and we’re through 54 holes heading into Sunday morning at Bellerive.
PGA Championship 2018: Tee times, pairings for Sunday
Tiger Woods starts Sunday with another late tee time and a chance to win his 15th major championship.
The forecast for Sunday is clear again, so there’s no need for some dramatic measure like sending the players off split tees or in groups of three. Everyone will roll off No. 1 on Sunday in twosomes, and that’s really the way it should be for the final round of a major championship. The pace of play should quicken — hopefully — and we should wrap up right around 7 p.m. on CBS. I know things can slow down under the pressure of a major championship, but there’s no reason a round should exceed four hours when the cut has been made and the field is out in twosomes.
Brooks Koepka and Adam Scott will be your anchor duo. One has captured two of the last five majors, while the other has not posted a top 5 in any worldwide tournament since the start of last year. Koepka may be the best player in the world right now. A win at the PGA would probably solidify that status. He’s an awesome talent, holds a two-shot lead, and should be the heavy favorite to win on Sunday. Scott has wandered in the wilderness at times, looking for a reliable putting stroke after spells of excellence that have yielded a world No. 1 ranking, a Masters green jacket, and a Players Championship.
While the winner may come from that final pairing, most eyes will be in the third-to-last group, as they were three weeks ago at The Open Championship. Tiger Woods is back with a late tee time at a major championship. He’s got a chance to win, which is a still a stunning thing to write in 2018 after the last two years. Woods will start four shots back from Koepka. His chances are not great, but they exist and he’ll have to make an early move as he did at Carnoustie. Tiger will tee off alongside Gary Woodland at 2:35 a.m. ET.
The entire bottom of the tee sheet is loaded. The course may not be up to your ideal of a major venue, but we’ve got a major leaderboard and a late wave of superstars that you want rolling off No. 1 tee. Here’s your tee sheet for the final round at Bellerive (all times ET)
- 8:29 a.m.: Chris Stroud, Brian Gay
- 8:38 a.m.: Cameron Smith, Scott Brown
- 8:47 a.m.: Vijay Singh, Charles Howell III
- 8:56 a.m.: Jim Furyk, Brian Harman
- 9:05 a.m.: Thorbjorn Olesen, Marc Leishman
- 9:14 a.m.: Nick Watney, Jhonattan Vegas
- 9:23 a.m.: Joaquin Niemann, Kevin Chappell
- 9:32 a.m.: Russell Henley, Hideki Matsuyama
- 9:41 a.m.: Ollie Schniederjans, Ross Fisher
- 9:50 a.m.: Tony Finau, Byeong Hun An
- 9:59 a.m.: Andrew Putnam, Adrian Otaegui
- 10:08 a.m.: Sungjae Im, J.J. Spaun
- 10:17 a.m.: Jimmy Walker, Ted Potter Jr.
- 10:26 a.m.: Austin Cook, Brandt Snedeker
- 10:35 a.m.: Brice Garnett, Russell Knox
- 10:53 a.m.: Yuta Ikeda, Keegan Bradley
- 11:02 a.m.: Tommy Fleetwood, Satoshi Kodaira
- 11:11 a.m.: Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Rory McIlroy
- 11:20 a.m.: Martin Kaymer, Dylan Frittelli
- 11:29 a.m.: Zach Johnson, Ben Kern
- 11:38 a.m.: Kevin Na, Ryan Moore
- 11:47 a.m.: Rafa Cabrera Bello, Tyrrell Hatton
- 11:56 a.m.: Seungsu Han, Andrew Landry
- 12:05 p.m.: Jordan Spieth, Jason Kokrak
- 12:15 p.m.: Billy Horschel, Chez Reavie
- 12:25 p.m.: Ryan Fox, Branden Grace
- 12:35 p.m.: Dustin Johnson, Chris Kirk
- 12:45 p.m.: Justin Rose, Patrick Cantlay
- 12:55 p.m.: Matt Wallace, Emiliano Grillo
- 1:05 p.m.: Eddie Pepperell, Ian Poulter
- 1:15 p.m.: Thomas Pieters, Brandon Stone
- 1:25 p.m.: Webb Simpson, Pat Perez
- 1:45 p.m.: Daniel Berger, Xander Schauffele
- 1:55 p.m.: Francesco Molinari, Kevin Kisner
- 2:05 p.m.: Charl Schwartzel, Julian Suri
- 2:15 p.m.: Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry
- 2:25 p.m.: Stewart Cink, Jason Day
- 2:35 p.m.: Gary Woodland, Tiger Woods
- 2:45 p.m.: Jon Rahm, Rickie Fowler
- 2:55 p.m.: Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott
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