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Rory McIlroy drawn with Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth at PGA Championship; practice round disrupted by foot issue

VIRGINIA WATER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 11: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, Jon Rahm of Spain and Shane Lowry of Ireland share a joke on day one of the BMW PGA Championship 2025 at Wentworth Golf Club on September 11, 2025 in Virginia Water, England. (Photo
Rory McIlroy (L) will tee off with Jon Rahm (C), while Shane Lowry is a late starter on Day 1

Rory McIlroy will play alongside fellow multiple major champions Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth in the first two rounds of the US PGA Championship.

The County Down man, bidding to win successive majors after his Masters triumph last month, will start his campaign on the back nine at Aronimink Golf Club in Philadelphia at 8.40am local time (1.40pm Irish time) on Thursday.

Spieth is out to complete the career grand slam with victory here, his last major win coming at the 2017 Open Championship, while Rahm is looking to add this to his US Open and Masters titles.

Tom McKibbin will be first of the Irish contingent starting as he tees off from the first hole at 12.40pm Irish time. He will be joined by 2009 US Open champion Lucas Glover of America and Germany's Stephan Jaeger.

Pádraig Harrington, winner in 2008, starts at the first at 1.24pm alongside Belgium's Thomas Detry and American Maverick McNealy.

Shane Lowry - 6.32pm - has a late start on Day 1 as he tees off alongside 2020 champion Collin Morikawa and Norway's Viktor Hovland.

World number one and defending champion Scottie Scheffler is in a stacked group alongside world number four Matt Fitzpatrick – who has three PGA Tour wins this season – and world number seven Justin Rose at 2.05pm (7.05pm Irish time).

Rose is a consistent major performer and is one of only two players in the field – alongside Keegan Bradley – to have won at Aronimink before.

England's Tommy Fleetwood and Scotland's Robert McIntyre are paired together, while 2024 champion Xander Schauffele plays alongside three-time winner Brooks Koepka and England's Tyrrell Hatton.

Additional reporting: PA

PGA Championship first round tee times:

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Starting on Hole One

1145 Braden Shattuck [CFT], Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng), Ben Griffin

1156 Francisco Bide (Arg) [CFT], Harry Hall (Eng), Ryan Gerard

1207 John Keefer, Rico Hoey (Phi), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den)

1218 Shaun Micheel, Michael Brennan, Garrick Higgo (Rsa)

1229 YE Yang (Kor), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Matt McCarty

1240 Lucas Glover, Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Stephan Jaeger (Ger)

1251 Daniel Brown (Eng), Adrien Saddier (Fra), Harris English

1302 Jacob Bridgeman, Bud Cauley, Alex Noren (Swe)

1313 Chris Kirk, Max Greyserman, Kristoffer Reitan (Nor)

1324 Maverick McNealy, Thomas Detry (Bel), Padraig Harrington (Irl)

1335 Ryan Lenahan [CFT], Ryan Fox (Nzl), Kazuki Higa (Jpn)

1346 Jared Jones [CFT], Michael Kim, Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn)

1357 Tyler Collet [CFT], Kota Kaneko (Jpn), Brandt Snedeker

1715 Andrew Novak, John Parry (Eng), Jordan Gumberg

1726 Ben Polland [CFT], Kurt Kitayama, Nico Echavarria (Col)

1737 Akshay Bhatia, Ricky Castillo, Michael Thorbjornsen

1748 Luke Donald (Eng), Jesse Droemer [CFT], Stewart Cink

1759 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), JJ Spaun, Max Homa

1810 Ben Kern [CFT], JT Poston, Russell Henley

1821 Adam Scott (Aus), Corey Conners (Can), Daniel Berger

1832 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry (Irl)

1843 Chris Gotterup, Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)

1854 Cameron Young, Keegan Bradley, Justin Thomas

1905 Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng), Justin Rose (Eng)

1916 Zach Haynes [CFT], Alex Smalley, Chandler Blanchet

1927 Bernd Wiesberger (Aut), Sudarshan Yellamaraju (Can), Andy Sullivan

Starting on Hole 10

1150 Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa), David Puig (Esp), Denny McCarthy

1201 William Mouw, Chris Gabriele [CFT], Taylor Pendrith (Can)

1212 Tom Hoge, Bryce Fisher [CFT], Joaquin Niemann (Chi)

1223 Keith Mitchell, Billy Horschel, Ian Holt [CFT]

1234 Gary Woodland, Jason Day (Aus), Sam Burns

1245 Wyndham Clark, Cameron Smith (Aus), Brian Harman

1256 Patrick Cantlay, Min Woo Lee (Aus), Sahith Theegala

1307 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Derek Berg [CFT], Joe Highsmith

1318 Bryson DeChambeau, Ludvig Åberg, Rickie Fowler

1329 Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)

1340 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm (Esp)

1351 Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Ryan Vermeer, Max McGreevy

1402 Paul McClure [CFT], Mikael Lindberg (Swe), Angel Ayora (Esp)

1710 Michael Block [CFT], Rasmus Hojgaard (Den), Dustin Johnson

1721 Mark Geddes (Eng) [CFT], Steven Fisk, David Lipsky

1732 Sungjae Im (Kor), Austin Hurt [CFT], Casey Jarvis (Rsa)

1743 Andrew Putnam, Michael Kartrude [CFT], Matt Wallace (Eng)

1754 Martin Kaymer (Ger), Elvis Smylie (Aus), Davis Riley

1805 Jason Dufner, Haotong Li (Chn), Jimmy Walker

1816 Nick Taylor (Can), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Jordan Smith (Eng)

1827 Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Patrick Reed, Pierceson Coody

1838 Brian Campbell, Adam Schenk, Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa)

1849 Marco Penge (Eng), Sepp Straka (Aut), Patrick Rodgers

1900 Aaron Rai (Eng), Travis Smyth (Aus), Sami Valimaki (Fin)

1911 Sam Stevens, Jayden Schaper (Rsa), Garrett Sapp [CFT]

1922 Timothy Wiseman [CFT], Matti Schmid (Ger), Austin Smotherman

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