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Notes From The PGA Championship

Published

18 years ago

Aug 9, 2008

The opening round of the PGA Championship had play suspended due to some unfavorable weather conditions. Lightning and rain kept the players off the course for over an hour late in the day for the first round. Twenty-four players had to complete their first round on Friday and the second round began as planned. This is the 90^th PGA Championship and is being held at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

Thursday

Jay Haas shot a 73 in his opening round, making an eagle on the second hole, a par 5. Haas is present in the tournament by way of his win in the Senior PGA Championship in May. PGA head pro from Brooklake Country Club (Florham Park, NJ) Frank Esposito Jr. shot a 71 to be one over par and the leader among club professionals. He earned the right to be in the running from being one of the top sports in the 2008 PGA Professional National Championship back in June.

The course has proven challenging with 69 bogeys on the par-4 18^th hole. The stroke average of the hole is at 4.612. The PGA of America also moved the tees up thirty yards at the par-3 ninth hole. This 227-yard hole still proved to be one of the toughest when play was called due to darkness. Even so, there were a total of 8 eagles in the opening round with six of them at the par-5 second hole. The other two were recorded at that par-5 12^th hole.

Friday

With a 36-hole cut at eight-over-par 148, 73 players advanced to weekend play. The highest 36-hole cut record is 14-over at 154 that occurred back in 1958. Paul Azinger has the distinction of becoming the first standing U.S. Ryder Cup Captain to make the cut at the Championship since Tom Kite in 1997. Azinger came in with 72-76-148. He selects the final four Team players on September 2^nd. Reigning British Open Champion Padraig Harrington is only six strokes from the lead at the midpoint of the 90^th PGA Championship.

Frank Esposito Jr., PGA head professional at Brooklake Country Club in Florham, N.J., was near the finish line and needing a bogey on the 18^th hole to become the only PGA Club Professional of 20 in the field to make the cut of 8-over-par 148. Unfortunately he did not make it. Esposito struggled to a double bogey 6 on the final hole and finished with a 78 and a 36-hole total of 149.

Some Championship trivia and tidbits:

The last player to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year was Jack Nicklaus. No doubt Trevor Immelman would like to duplicate this. On a side note, Immelman recently professed that he did not believe golf should be an Olympic sport at an interview earlier this week. (Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk believe otherwise.)

Three players have won the British open and PGA Championship in the same year: Walter Hagen, Nick Price, and Tiger Woods. Woods is the only player to accomplish this feat twice (in 2000 and 2006). Padraig Harrington will be trying to join this group.

Oakland Hills is the 4^th course to host this Championship at least 3 times. Southern Hills has hosted the most with four. Other than Oakland Hills, Oakmont Country Club and Firestone Country Club have hosted the event 3 times.

The field has 26 players that have won a combined 35 major championships in the field this week.

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2026 PGA Championship betting odds

Published

2 days ago

May 12, 2026

Gianni Magliocco

Scottie Scheffler leads the betting ahead of the second major championship of the year, with the World Number One a +345 favorite to get his hands on a second PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy who won the Masters back in April is a +800 shot to complete half of the calendar slam at Aronimink Golf Club this week, while Jordan Spieth can be backed at +5900 to become a career grand slam winner.

Here is the full betting board for the 2026 PGA Championship courtesy of DraftKings.

Scottie Scheffler +345 – (Check 0ut his WITB here)

Rory McIlroy +800 – (Check out his WITB here)

Jon Rahm +1300
Cameron Young +1500
Bryson DeChambeau +1700
Xander Schauffele +1850
Matt Fitzpatrick +1950
Ludvig Aberg +2000
Tommy Fleetwood +2600
Collin Morikawa +3500
Brooks Koepka +3900
Justin Rose +4300
Russell Henley +4600
Si Woo Kim +4700
Justin Thomas +4800
Robert MacIntyre +5300
Patrick Cantlay +5300
Viktor Hovland +5400
Tyrrell Hatton +5500
Jordan Spieth +5900
Sam Burns +6000
Hideki Matsuyama +6200
Adam Scott +6400
Rickie Fowler +7000
Chris Gotterup +7400
Patrick Reed +7400
Min Woo Lee +7800
Ben Griffin +8000
Sepp Straka +8400
Shane Lowry +9000
Akshay Bhatia +9200
Maverick McNealy +9200
Joaquin Niemann +9200
Jake Knapp +9200
Jason Day +9600
Kurt Kitayama +10000
J.J. Spaun +10000
Harris English +10500
Nicolai Hojgaard +11000
Gary Woodland +11000
David Puig +11000
Michael Thorbjornsen +12000
Jacob Bridgeman +12000
Keegan Bradley +12500
Corey Conners +14000
Alex Fitzpatrick +15000
Sungjae Im +15500
Sahith Theegala +15500
Harry Hall +15500
Alex Noren +16000
Thomas Detry +16500
Marco Penge +16500
Kristoffer Reitan +17000
Alex Smalley +17000
Wyndham Clark +17500
Sam Stevens +17500
Keith Mitchell +17500
Daniel Berger +18500
Ryan Gerard +20000
Nick Taylor +20000
Rasmus Hojgaard +21000
Dustin Johnson +21000
Pierceson Coody +23000
Aaron Rai +24000
Jordan Smith +24000
Angel Ayora +24000
Bud Cauley +25000
Matt McCarty +26000
Jayden Schaper +26000
Brian Harman +27000
Taylor Pendrith +27000
Ryan Fox +27000
J.T. Poston +27000
Cameron Smith +29000
Ryo Hisatsune +29000
Michael Kim +29000
Max Homa +29000
Denny McCarthy +29000
Tom McKibbin +30000
Rico Hoey +32000
Matt Wallace +32500
Ricky Castillo +33000
Haotong Li +33000
Michael Brennan +34000
Max Greyserman +36000
Stephan Jaeger +37500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +37500
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +39000
Aldrich Potgieter +40000
Andrew Novak +42000
Patrick Rodgers +42500
Daniel Hillier +42500
Max McGreevy +46000
Billy Horschel +48000
Chris Kirk +48000
Ian Holt +49000
Casey Jarvis +49000
William Mouw +50000
Steven Fisk +50000
John Parry +50000
Nico Echavarria +52500
Garrick Higgo +52500
John Keefer+55000
Matthias Schmid +57500
Austin Smotherman +57500
Sami Valimaki +60000
Andrew Putnam +60000
Lucas Glover +62500
Daniel Brown +62500
Jhonattan Vegas +75000
Emiliano Grillo +80000
Mikael Lindberg +85000
Adrien Saddier +100000
Bernd Wiesberger +100000
Elvis Smylie +110000
Stewart Cink +130000
Kota Kaneko +130000
David Lipsky +150000
Chandler Blanchet +150000
Andy Sullivan +150000
Joe Highsmith +180000
Adam Schenk +200000
Travis Smyth +200000
Davis Riley +225000
Martin Kaymer +400000
Brian Campbell +400000
Padraig Harrington +450000
Kazuki Higa +450000
Jordan Gumberg +450000
Ryan Vermeer +500000
Austin Hurt +500000
Tyler Collet +500000
Timothy Wiseman +500000
Shaun Micheel +500000
Y.E. Yang +500000
Michael Block+500000
Mark Geddes+500000
Luke Donald+500000
Bryce Fisher+500000
Jimmy Walker +500000
Jason Dufner +500000
Jesse Droemer +500000
Jared Jones +500000
Garrett Sapp +500000
Francisco Bide +500000
Zach Haynes +500000
Paul McClure+500000
Derek Berg +500000
Chris Gabriele +500000
Braden Shattuck +500000
Ben Polland +500000
Ben Kern +50000

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Photos from the 2026 PGA Championship

Published

2 days ago

May 11, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

GolfWRX is on site for the second major of 2026: The PGA Championship from Aronimink in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

The tournament’s location, just outside Philadelphia, and its status as a major championship mean GolfWRXers are in for a treat: WITBs from a strong field, custom gear celebrating the PGA Championship, and the rich culture of the City of Brotherly Love — we have noted a relative absence of cheesesteak-themed items thus far this week, but most of the rest of the usual suspects are well represented.

Check out links to all our photos below.