PGA Championship R1

May 19-22
Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

 

Rory McIlroy birdied the par-4 18th to close with a 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead in the PGA Championship.

“It was a great start. I’ve been carrying some good form. I think when your game is feeling like that, it’s just a matter of going out there and really sticking to your game plan, executing as well as you possibly can, and just sort of staying in your own little world.

“I feel like this course, it lets you be pretty aggressive off the tee if you want to be, so I hit quite a lot of drivers out there and took advantage of my length and finished that off with some nice iron play and some nice putting.”

 

The Northern Irishman has made twenty seven starts in majors since he won his last one and he has broken par in his opening rounds only fifteen times. In fact it was his lowest start in a major since he won the 2014 PGA at Valhalla.

This is a good sign since, in the seven previous majors at Southern Hills, the winner has held at least a share of the opening lead every time.

Behind him at 4-under are Americans Will Zalatoris and Tom Hoge who shot 66s.

Compatriots Matt Kuchar and Justin Thomas are tied in fourth at 3-under alongside Mexico’s Abraham Ancer

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Rory McIlroy	-5	65
T2	Will Zalatoris	-4	66
T2	Tom Hoge	-4	66
T4	Matt Kuchar	-3	67
T4	Abraham Ancer	-3	67
T4	Justin Thomas	-3	67
T7	Chris Kirk	-2	68
T7	Mito Pereira	-2	68
T7	Xander Schauffele	-2	68
T7	Cameron Smith	-2	68
T7	Kevin Na	-2	68
T7	Davis Riley	-2	68
T7	Matt Fitzpatrick	-2	68
T7	Lucas Herbert	-2	68
T7	Joaquin Niemann	-2	68
T16	Dean Burmester	-1	69
T16	Tony Finau	-1	69
T16	Stewart Cink	-1	69
T16	Thomas Pieters	-1	69
T16	Patrick Reed	-1	69
T16	Beau Hossler	-1	69
T16	Talor Gooch	-1	69
T16	K.H. Lee	-1	69
T16	Webb Simpson	-1	69
T16	Patton Kizzire	-1	69
T16	Aaron Wise	-1	69
T27	Robert MacIntyre	Par	70
T27	Alex Noren	Par	70
T27	Tyrrell Hatton	Par	70
T27	Max Homa	Par	70
T27	Viktor Hovland	Par	70
T27	Ryan Fox	Par	70
T27	Francesco Molinari	Par	70
T27	Gary Woodland	Par	70
T27	Brendan Steele	Par	70
T27	Shane Lowry	Par	70
T27	Russell Henley	Par	70
T38	Y.E. Yang	+1	71
T38	Kevin Streelman	+1	71
T38	Shaun Norris	+1	71
T38	Kramer Hickok	+1	71
T38	Justin Rose	+1	71
T38	Si Woo Kim	+1	71
T38	Cameron Young	+1	71
T38	Sam Burns	+1	71
T38	Justin Harding	+1	71
T38	Seamus Power	+1	71
T38	Jason Day	+1	71
T38	Rickie Fowler	+1	71
T38	Harold Varner III	+1	71
T38	Scottie Scheffler	+1	71
T38	Sepp Straka	+1	71
T38	Adam Schenk	+1	71
T38	Tommy Fleetwood	+1	71
T38	Charl Schwartzel	+1	71
T56	John Daly	+2	72
T56	Adri Arnaus	+2	72
T56	Hideki Matsuyama	+2	72
T56	Cam Davis	+2	72
T56	Jason Dufner	+2	72
T56	Jordan Spieth	+2	72
T56	Bubba Watson	+2	72
T56	Yuki Inamori	+2	72
T56	Lanto Griffin	+2	72
T56	Laurie Canter	+2	72
T56	Jesse Mueller	+2	72
T56	Alex Cejka	+2	72
T56	Cameron Tringale	+2	72
T56	Marc Leishman	+2	72
T56	Keegan Bradley	+2	72
T56	Collin Morikawa	+2	72
T56	Henrik Stenson	+2	72
T56	J.J. Spaun	+2	72
T56	Kevin Kisner	+2	72
T56	Keith Mitchell	+2	72
T56	Chan Kim	+2	72
T56	Bernd Wiesberger	+2	72
T78	Ryan Palmer	+3	73
T78	Matthew Borchert	+3	73
T78	Troy Merritt	+3	73
T78	Jinichiro Kozuma	+3	73
T78	Denny McCarthy	+3	73
T78	Matt Jones	+3	73
T78	Min Woo Lee	+3	73
T78	Anirban Lahiri	+3	73
T78	Rich Beem	+3	73
T78	Adam Hadwin	+3	73
T78	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+3	73
T78	Dustin Johnson	+3	73
T78	Jon Rahm	+3	73
T78	Branden Grace	+3	73
T78	Daniel Berger	+3	73
T78	Louis Oosthuizen	+3	73
T78	Sergio Garcia	+3	73
T78	Maverick McNealy	+3	73
T78	Alex Beach	+3	73
T78	Jhonattan Vegas	+3	73
T78	Joel Dahmen	+3	73
T99	Sam Horsfield	+4	74
T99	Rikuya Hoshino	+4	74
T99	Tiger Woods	+4	74
T99	Richard Bland	+4	74
T99	Garrick Higgo	+4	74
T99	Daniel van Tonder	+4	74
T99	Sebastian Munoz	+4	74
T99	Brian Harman	+4	74
T99	Hudson Swafford	+4	74
T99	Russell Knox	+4	74
T99	Jason Kokrak	+4	74
T99	Zach Johnson	+4	74
T99	Cameron Champ	+4	74
T99	Harry Higgs	+4	74
T99	Luke List	+4	74
T114	Kyle Mendoza	+5	75
T114	Sadom Kaewkanjana	+5	75
T114	Lucas Glover	+5	75
T114	Lee Westwood	+5	75
T114	Ryan Vermeer	+5	75
T114	Brooks Koepka	+5	75
T114	Billy Horschel	+5	75
T114	Erik van Rooyen	+5	75
T122	Shaun Micheel	+6	76
T122	Bio Kim	+6	76
T122	Ryan Brehm	+6	76
T122	Corey Conners	+6	76
T122	Patrick Cantlay	+6	76
T122	Martin Kaymer	+6	76
T122	Ian Poulter	+6	76
T122	Matthew Wolff	+6	76
T130	Takumi Kanaya	+7	77
T130	Mackenzie Hughes	+7	77
T130	Padraig Harrington	+7	77
T130	Pablo Larrazabal	+7	77
T130	Wyatt Worthington II	+7	77
T130	Tim Feenstra	+7	77
T130	Adam Scott	+7	77
T130	Chad Ramey	+7	77
T138	Colin Inglis	+8	78
T138	Michael Block	+8	78
T138	Nic Ishee	+8	78
T138	Shawn Warren	+8	78
T138	Oliver Bekker	+8	78
T138	Dylan Newman	+8	78
T138	Brandon Bingaman	+8	78
T138	Nicolai Hojgaard	+8	78
T138	Scott Stallings	+8	78
T138	Joohyung Kim	+8	78
T138	Austin Hurt	+8	78
T138	Paul Dickinson	+8	78
T150	Carlos Ortiz	+9	79
T150	Casey Pyne	+9	79
T150	Ryosuke Kinoshita	+9	79
T150	Tyler Collet	+9	79
T150	Jared Jones	+9	79
155	Zac Oakley	+11	81
156	Sean McCarty	+12	82