Tiger Woods at PGA Championship 2018: Tee times, TV schedule, live stream info

Tiger Woods is, somehow, still in fine position at the 100th PGA Championship. After a week of questions about being “out of gas,” Tiger started his PGA with a bogey and double bogey to promptly fall to 3-over. That’s never an ideal start and it appeared his championship would be over early. We were headed for a fantastic ejection and short two-day stay in St. Louis.

Then Tiger did that Tiger of old thing and got the most out of a round where he didn’t have it all. After looking lost and lethargic at the start, Woods played the final 10 holes in 3-under to get it back to even-par. It’s the same score as his playing partner, Rory McIlroy, a favorite this week and someone who started much faster than Tiger. But at the end, you looked up at the board, and both were putting 70 on their card. Tiger’s number, however, felt more like a triumph and Rory’s felt disappointing.

Woods makes his return for the second round Friday afternoon at Bellerive Country Club. It’s been three years since he played the PGA, a sentence we’ve written at each of the first three majors of the year. It appears that Woods will play a full summer schedule, getting in all four majors for the first time since 2015. It’s a remarkable comeback and accomplishment in its own right and one that didn’t seem possible just a year ago, when he was struggling to walk and presumed done.

Woods, however, doesn’t exactly enter this PGA in ship-shape. He said he spent Monday taking multiple ice baths to deal with inflammation and he also looked tight at times over the weekend at the Bridgestone Invitational. Earlier this season at Memorial, Woods said there were going to be days and times when he was just tight and there was nothing he could do about it. He maintained that this is just a fact of life as a 42-year-old with four back surgeries under his belt and that it’s not cause for alarm for some new injury.

But it’s still not ideal and Woods is playing the season’s final major in not the strongest shape. A decline in swing speeds over each event would also corroborate it. Fatigue could be an issue. Woods is still 20/1 to win but oddly enough, even after that amazing run two weeks ago at The Open, this may be the least optimism surrounding Woods before a major this year. Thursday’s opening round comeback, however, was inspiring stuff even if it doesn’t do much to quell the skepticism about his competing here this week.

Tiger will get it started on the late side of the draw in the second round, going out at 2:48 p.m. ET alongside Justin Thomas and McIlroy. This is the same super group we got early in the year at Riviera, when Woods was just in his second start back and everyone lost their damn minds at the announcement. Now we have a full season of Woods and there’s a little less juice, but it’s still as sexy a tee time as you’re going to get out here.

If Woods does not win a major this year, his season is not a failure. Just playing all four makes it a success. But we’d love to see him give it a run at the final major of the season. Friday is an opportunity to make a move and, unlike Thursday, he’ll play his full round in the TV coverage window on TNT. Here are your media options for that second round, as well as the full tee sheet.

2 to 8 p.m. — TNT

Available on PGA.com and on mobile via PGA Championship and Bleacher Report Live app.

Noon to 8 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208) or on PGA.com

Here’s the full tee sheet for Friday’s opening round: