The first round of the 2023 PGA Championship is now underway from Oak Hill Golf Club. Here are live updates for the rest of the afternoon.
1 PM ET–The first round was delayed two hours due to high frost. Unlikely all players will finish their round today.
1:01 PM ET–Kazuki Higa of Japan and Sahith Theegala of the United States have the share of the lead at -3. Ryan Fox of New Zealand is all alone in third place at -2. Then there is an eight-way tie for fourth place at -1. There you can find two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, 2021 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, 2011 PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley, Norway’s Viktor Hovland, Americans Maverick McNealy and Justin Suh, Canada’s Corey Conners and England’s Callum Tarren.
1:05 PM ET–Higa struggling on sixth hole…records a score of double bogey to drop to -1.
1:09 PM ET–Theegala bogeys the 12th and drops to -2…now tied for the lead with Fox…
1:20 PM ET–Double bogey for Jordan Spieth drops him to +2. Was questionable with a wrist problem.
1:21 PM ET–Conners birdies the 12th to go to -2 and first place tie with Fox and Theegala.
1:30 PM ET–Unsuccessful long par putt for Theegala drops him to -1…
1:32 PM ET–Long birdie putt by Hovland on the second hole moves him to -2…
1:33 PM ET–Impressive long par putt for Thomas on the third hole keeps him at -1…
1:40 PM ET–New Zealand’s Ryan Fox birdies the 14th to go to -3 and the outright lead…
1:58 PM ET– Scheffler birdies 14th to go to -2.
2:07 PM ET–2020 US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau birdies the first to go to -2 and one back of Fox…
2:08 PM ET–Hovland birdies the fourth to move into a first place tie with Fox…both at -3…
2:08 PM ET–Fox misses short birdie putt on the 16th…settles for par and remains tied for first with Hovland at -3…
2:10 PM ET–Another impressive long par putt for Spieth…
2:15 PM ET–Conners birdies the 14th hole to move into a tie with Fox and Hovland at -3…
2:23 PM ET–Conners sinks long birdie on the 15th hole to go to -4…
2:25 PM ET–Fox misses long par putt to drop to -2…
2:39 PM ET–Conners bogeys the 16th to drop to -3…
2:43 PM ET–Bradley birdies the third to move to -3 and a tie with Hovland and Conners…
2:45 PM ET–Hovland bogeys the sixth to drop to -2…
2:47 PM ET–Scheffler birdies the eighth to improve to -3…
2:49 PM ET–Theegala has back-to-back bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes after recording a birdie on the 14th hole…drops to even par…
2:56 PM ET–Fox in the clubhouse at -2…battling pneumonia and birth of second child right before Oak Hill…
3:07 PM ET–DeChambeau birdies the fourth hole to move into a four-way tie for first at -3 with Bradley, Conners and Scheffler
3:08 PM ET–Scheffler moves into the clubhouse at -3 after posting his first ever round at a major without a bogey….
3:21 PM ET–Simpson makes long birdie to move to -1…
3:32 PM ET–Stunning to see world number one Jon Rahm of Spain at +6…world number three Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland enters the clubhouse at +1…
3:34 PM ET–Austria’s Sepp Straka collects second birdie in first three holes to move to -2…
3:35 PM ET–DeChambeau moves into the lead by himself at -4 after notching a birdie on the sixth…
3:36 PM ET–Bradley birdies the sixth to move to -4 and a tie for the lead with DeChambeau…
3:46 PM ET–Reigning British Open champion Cameron Smith of Australia finishes at +2…
3:53 PM ET–Bradley bogeys the seventh to drop to -3…
3:54 PM ET–Impressive par putt on the seventh for DeChambeau keeps him in the lead at -4…
4:03 PM ET–Fowler bogeys the first as his putt moves completely 360 degrees around the cup but not in the hole….
4:12 PM ET–Currently a six way tie for eighth at -1…there you find Belgium’s Thomas Pieters, Australia’s Cam Davis, Americans Harold Varner III, Justin Suh and Ben Kern, and Denmark’s Rasmus Hojgaard…Kern is a PGA professional from Tucson…
4:19 PM ET–Varner III finishes his round at even…
4:23 PM ET–Seven players at -2 or better are DeChambeau (-4), Scheffler, Bradley and Conners (-3), Hovland, Straka, Fox (-2)…
4:28 PM ET–Bradley bogeys the ninth to drop to -2…
4:29 PM ET–Australia’s Jason Day won last week at the Byron Nelson…today he golfed poorly as he finished his first round at +6 and 10 strokes back of DeChambeau…
4:30 PM ET–DeChambeau enters the clubhouse at -4 and the lead after a first round score of 66…
4:39 PM ET–2013 United States Open champ and 2016 Olympic Gold medalist Justin Rose of England birdies the first to move to -1…
4:41 PM ET–Also at -1 is Australia’s Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters champ, birdied the third hole…interesting that two major champions from exactly one decade ago are both in contention….
4:45 PM ET–Straka birdies the 16th hole to move to -3…
4:50 PM ET–More golfers at -1…there we have 2009 PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang of South Korea, Mexico’s Abraham Ancer, and Americans Hayden Buckley and Brian Harman…Harman had a birdie on the 14th…Kern dropped out of contention after bogeying the 17th to drop to even…
4:58 PM ET–American Aaron Wise birdies the 13th hole to get to -1…long birdie putt goes in…
5 PM ET–Pieters moves to -2 after recording a birdie on the 16th…like Wise, Pieters birdied the 13th…
5:12 PM ET–Rose birdies the third to improve to -2…
5:15 PM ET–Scott birdies the sixth to improve to -2…
5:18 PM ET–Straka, who started on the 10th hole, bogeyed the 18th hole, to drop to -2…
5:24 PM ET–Canadian Adam Hadwin also moves into red figures at -1 with a birdie on the fourth…was in contention at last year’s US Open as he finished in seventh place at -1…
5:26 PM ET–New golfers under par at -1 are Americans Eric Cole and Sam Burns, Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal; meanwhile Davis drops back to even after bogeying the 10th and Buckley drops back to even after bogeying the ninth…
5:38 PM ET–Hadwin bogeys the fifth to drop to even and Pieters bogeys the 18th to drop to -1…
5:47 PM ET–Scott birdies the eighth to move to -3….
5:47 PM ET–Rose bogeys the fifth and drops to -1…
5:48 PM ET–Pieters birdies the first to move to -2…
5:48 PM ET–Davis birdies the first to move to -1…
6:06 PM ET–Scott bogeys the ninth and drops to -2…
6:07 PM ET–Rose birdies the sixth after double bogeying the fifth…moves to -1…
6:22 PM ET–Great approach shot by Scott…chance for birdie…
6:23 PM ET–Scott birdies the 10th to improve to -3…
6:23 PM ET–Pieters makes 30 foot putt on 12th to move to -2…
6:23 PM ET–Another LIV golfer Dustin Johnson is also in red figures at -1…
6:24 PM ET–Remarkable birdie from the bunker for Rose on the seventh puts him at -2…
6:35 PM ET–Straka birdies the fourth to move to -3 and in a tie for second with Scheffler, Scott and Conners…
6:36 PM ET–Johnson birdies the 10th to go to -2…
6:45 PM ET–Straka bogeys the fifth to drop to -2…
6:48 PM ET–Tough start for world number four Patrick Cantlay as he is +3 after 10 holes…double bogey on the 10th hole…was criticized earlier this season for playing too slow…
7:04 PM ET–Johnson birdies the 12th to go to -3…
7:05 PM ET–Struggles continue for Cantlay as he bogeys the 11th to drop to +4…
7:17 PM ET–Pieters birdies 6th hole to improve to -3…one stroke back of DeChambeau…
7:25 PM ET–Temperature drop in New York…
7:30 PM ET–DeChambeau birdies the 13th hole…improves to -4…
7:36 PM ET–Scott birdies the 14th hole…now in a tie with Johnson and DeChambeau at -4…
7:40 PM ET–Rose bogeys 11th hole….drops to -1….
7:41 PM ET–Honda Classic playoff runner-up Eric Cole of Palm Springs, California birdies the second hole to improve to -3…
7:46 pm ET–Three straight birdies for Tony Finau gets him to +2…
7:56 PM ET–Cole birdies the 12th hole to move to -4 and tied with DeChambeau, Johnson and Scott…
7:58 PM ET–Rose birdies the 12th hole to improve to -2…
8:11 PM ET–Cole birdies the fourth hole to improve to -5…
8:13 PM ET–Pieters finishes his round with a bogey to drop to -1…
8:14 PM ET–Topsy turvy round for Rose continues as he bogeys the 13th hole to drop to -1…
8:20 PM ET–Scott pars the 17th hole…
8:25 PM ET–Cole pars the 5th hole to stay at -5…
8:38 PM ET–Scott double bogeys 18th…drops to -2…
8:39 PM ET–Thirty-three golfers will have to come back and finish their first round on Friday morning…here is the leaderboard after Thursday–1) Eric Cole–USA -5 2) DeChambeau -4 3) Scheffler USA , Johnson USA, Conners CAN -3 6) Bradley USA, Hovland NOR, Scott AUS, Fox NZ -2
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