Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa will host the PGA Championship for the fifth time, but there will be a glaring absence when the golfers tee off on Thursday.
Defending champion Phil Mickelson, who became the oldest golfer to win a major title at age 50, has decided not to participate, as he is extending his self-imposed from the tour after his comments about an alternative Super Golf League in Saudi Arabia.
There will still be plenty of firepower battling for the Wanamaker Trophy as Tiger Woods, a four-time PGA Championship winner, Rory McIlroy, and Jordan Spieth are grouped together for the first two rounds.
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The world’s No. 1 player and 2022 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler tees off in the afternoon with Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa, who are ranked second and third in the world, respectively.
Here’s everything you need to know about Thursday’s groupings for the 104th PGA Championship:
When: May 19-22, 2022
Where: Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma
TV times: ESPN will have live coverage from 2 p.m.- 8 p.m. ET.
Streaming information: The main broadcast coverage will be courtesy of ESPN+. Thursday’s stream will be from 8 a.m.- 2 p.m. and the featured groups will broadcast until 8 p.m, with the featured holes being 16, 17, and 18, starting at 9.30 a.m.
ESPN2 will have alternate broadcast with host Joe Buck and analyst Michael Collins, with various guests from the sports and entertainment world. ESPN+ will carry the entire alternate showing and it will air from 2 to 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
Tee Times, Players: (All times Eastern)
Tee No. 1
8:00 a.m. – John Daly, Shaun Micheel, Y.E. Yang
8:11 a.m. – Takumi Kanaya, Matthew Borchert, Troy Merritt
8:22 a.m. – Dean Burmester, Kyle Mendoza, Chris Kirk
8:33 a.m. – Nic Ishee, Mito Pereira, Sam Horsfield
8:44 a.m. – Kevin Streelman, Shaun Norris, Carlos Ortiz
8:55 a.m. – Matt Kuchar, Cameron Davis, Rikuya Hoshino
9:06 a.m. – Stewart Cink, Jason Dufner, Padraig Harrington
9:17 a.m. – Kramer Hickok, Abraham Ancer, Thomas Pieters
9:28 a.m. – Richard Bland, Matt Jones, Garrick Higgo
9:39 a.m. – Beau Hossler, Tom Hoge, Si Woo Kim
9:50 a.m. – Shawn Warren, Pablo Larrazabal, Ryan Fox
10:01 a.m. – Zac Oakley, Yuki Inamori, Sebastián Muñoz
10:12 a.m. – Brendan Steele, Casey Pyne, Bio Kim
1:30 p.m. – Ryan Brehm, Wyatt Worthington II, Min Woo Lee
1:41 p.m. – Nicolai Hojgaard, Sean McCarty, Justin Harding
1:52 p.m. – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin
2:03 p.m. – Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott
2:14 p.m. – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas
2:25 p.m. – Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Harold Varner III
2:36 p.m. – Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler
2:47 p.m. – Daniel Berger, Louis Oosthuizen, Ian Poulter
2:58 p.m. – Kevin Kisner, Tommy Fleetwood, Billy Horschel
3:09 p.m. – Sergio Garcia, Charl Schwartzel, Matthew Fitzpatrick
3:20 p.m. – Harry Higgs, Joaquin Niemann, Erik van Rooyen
3:31 p.m. – Alex Beach, Bernd Wiesberger, Jhonattan Vegas
3:42 p.m. – Jared Jones, Aaron Wise, Joel Dahmen
Tee No. 10
8:05 a.m. – Ryan Palmer, Robert MacIntyre, Alex Noren
8:16 a.m. – Adri Arnaus, Colin Inglis, Jinichiro Kozuma
8:27 a.m. – Mackenzie Hughes, Michael Block, Sadom Kaewkanjana
8:38 a.m. – Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele, Tony Finau
8:49 a.m. – Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa
9:00 a.m. – Viktor Hovland, Will Zalatoris, Cameron Smith
9:11 a.m. – Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods
9:22 a.m. – Patrick Reed, Justin Rose, Bubba Watson
9:33 a.m. – Kevin Na, Lucas Glover, Daniel van Tonder
9:44 a.m. – Cameron Young, Sam Burns, Davis Riley
9:55 a.m. – Francesco Molinari, Lee Westwood, Gary Woodland
10:06 a.m. – Brian Harman, Ryan Vermeer, Oliver Bekker
10:17 a.m. – Dylan Newman, Lanto Griffin, Laurie Canter
1:25 p.m. – Brandon Bingaman, Talor Gooch, Ryosuke Kinoshita
1:36 p.m. – Tim Feenstra, Anirban Lahiri, Kyoung-Hoon Lee
1:47 p.m. – Rich Beem, Jesse Mueller, Alex Cejka
1:58 p.m. – Russell Knox, Seamus Power, Scott Stallings
2:09 p.m. – Jason Kokrak, Corey Conners, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
2:20 p.m. – Martin Kaymer, Marc Leishman, Keegan Bradley
2:31 p.m. – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ
2:42 p.m. – Webb Simpson, Branden Grace, Henrik Stenson
2:53 p.m. – Sepp Straka, J.J. Spaun, Adam Schenk
3:04 p.m. – Matthew Wolff, Joohyung Kim, Keith Mitchell
3:15 p.m. – Chad Ramey, Austin Hurt, Lucas Herbert
3:26 p.m. – Tyler Collet, Chan Kim, Maverick McNealy
3:37 p.m. – Luke List, Paul Dickinson, Patton Kizzire
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: PGA Championship first round tee times, TV and streaming