2025 PGA Championship Thursday tee times, pairings: When golfers tee off first round

The 2025 PGA Championship is hours away from teeing off, and there’s plenty of excitement building up at Quail Hollow Club.

Several of the world’s most prolific golfers have built a case for winning the second major of the year. Coming off his Masters victory and completing the career grand slam, Rory McIlroy is hot and back at a course he’s had great success at. Then there’s Bryson DeChambeau, who has been great at recent majors, including a second place finish at last year’s event. Plus, you can’t forget the world No. 1 player in Scottie Scheffler. There are many other names to watch, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and last year’s winner Xander Schauffele.

With so many notable contenders set to begin play, here’s when they are the rest of the field will tee off Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina.

2025 PGA Championship Thursday pairings, tee times

*All times listed are Eastern

Thursday Hole 1 pairings

These golfers will start the first round teeing off on the front nine:

• 7 a.m.: Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington, Martin Kaymer

• 7:11 a.m.: John Somers, Taylor Moore, David Puig

• 7:22 a.m.: Kurt Kitayama, Nic Ishee, Alex Noren

• 7:33 a.m.: J.T. Poston, Ryo Hisatsune, Tom Johnson

• 7:44 a.m.: Davis Thompson, Bud Cauley, Nico Echavarria

• 7:55 a.m.: Harris English, Michael Kim, Thomas Detry

• 8:06 a.m.: Stephan Jaeger, Chris Kirk, Robert MacIntyre

• 8:17 a.m.: Thorbjørn Olesen, Karl Vilips, Laurie Canter

• 8:28 a.m.: Si Woo Kim, Sam Stevens, Rico Hoey

• 8:39 a.m.: Bobby Gates, Lee Hodges, Ben Griffin

• 8:50 a.m.: Thriston Lawrence, Nick Dunlap, Harry Hall

• 9:01 a.m.: Greg Koch, Marco Penge, Ryan Gerard

• 9:12 a.m.: Dylan Newman, Daniel van Tonder, Victor Perez

• 12:30 p.m.: Michael Kartrude, Sami Valimaki, Jake Knapp

• 12:41 p.m.: Erik van Rooyen, Michael Block, Mackenzie Hughes

• 12:52 p.m.: Lucas Glover, Max Homa, Joaquin Niemann

• 1:03 p.m.: Tyrrell Hatton, Will Zalatoris, Adam Scott

• 1:14 p.m.: Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa

• 1:25 p.m.: Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed, Ludvig Åberg

• 1:36 p.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Wyndham Clark, Tom Kim

• 1:47 p.m.: Bryson DeChambeau, Viktor Hovland, Gary Woodland

• 1:58 p.m.: Sergio Garcia, Daniel Berger, Russell Henley

• 2:09 p.m.: Justin Rose, Cameron Smith, Brian Harman

• 2:20 p.m.: Brandon Bingaman, Davis Riley, Sungjae Im

• 2:31 p.m.: Takumi Kanaya, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Tom McKibbin

• 2:42 p.m.: Keita Nakajima, Timothy Wiseman, Beau Hossler

Thursday Hole 10 pairings

These golfers will begin the first round on the back nine:

• 7:05 a.m.: John Parry, Justin Hicks, Ryan Fox

• 7:16 a.m.: Andre Chi, Patrick Fishburn, Seamus Power

• 7:27 a.m.: Max McGreevy, Sahith Theegala, Sepp Straka

• 7:38 a.m.: Brooks Koepka, Rickie Fowler, Shane Lowry

• 7:49 a.m.: Phil Mickelson, Tommy Fleetwood, Jason Day

• 8:00 a.m.: Jon Rahm, Patrick Cantlay, Matt Fitzpatrick

• 8:11 a.m.: Corey Conners, Min Woo Lee, Rasmus Højgaard

• 8:22 a.m.: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler

• 8:33 a.m.: Tony Finau, Nicolai Højgaard, Max Greyserman

• 8:44 a.m.: Andrew Novak, Keegan Bradley, Maverick McNealy

• 8:55 a.m.: Akshay Bhatia, Denny McCarthy, Sam Burns

• 9:06 a.m.: John Catlin, Garrick Higgo, Jesse Droemer

• 9:17 a.m.: Eugenio Chacarra, Rupe Taylor, Justin Lower

• 12:25 p.m.: Keith Mitchell, Bob Sowards, Adam Hadwin

• 12:36 p.m.: Eric Cole, Eric Steger, Cam Davis

• 12:47 p.m.: Austin Eckroat, Brian Bergstol, Jacob Bridgeman

• 12:58 p.m.: Niklas Norgaard, Byeong Hun An, J.J. Spaun

• 1:09 p.m.: Patrick Rodgers, Nick Taylor, Dean Burmester

• 1:20 p.m.: Joe Highsmith, Cameron Young, Aaron Rai

• 1:31 p.m.: Tom Hoge, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith

• 1:42 p.m.: Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Patton Kizzire, Matt McCarty

• 1:53 p.m.: Tyler Collet, Jimmy Walker, Richard Bland

• 2:04 p.m.: Jason Dufner, Michael Thorbjornsen, Shaun Micheel

• 2:15 p.m.: Rafael Campos, Ryan Lenahan, Matt Wallace

• 2:26 p.m.: Jhonattan Vegas, Elvis Smylie, Brian Campbell

• 2:37 p.m.: Kevin Yu, Larkin Gross, John Keefer

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: PGA Championship 2025 Thursday tee times, pairings for Round 1