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The Guardian
18-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
US PGA Championship 2025: final round on day four
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Here we are at the business end of the 107th PGA Championship, then. Somebody will most likely have to go low if they're to catch Scottie Scheffler. So is it possible on the early evidence? Nobody's gone super-low as of yet: Sam Burns has been the best of the morning starters, back in the hutch with a 67, while Xander Schauffele signed off the defence of his title with a 68. They finish the week -2 and -1 respectively. But most of the pins are accessible, so while the greens are firming up, and the wind is picking up, nothing is off the table. Share This is Scottie's to lose. But anything can happen on any given major-championship Sunday – it's only three years since Justin Thomas won from a record-equalling seven back, after all – and there are plenty of big names lurking should the world number one somehow misplace his mojo. Thing is, it was Mito Pereira who led going into that historic day in 2022; today it's Scheffler, the world number one, who yesterday evening laid waste both the field and Quail Hollow's notorious closing stretch with some out-of-this-world, carpe-diem golf (beginning here). Still, you never know. Here's how the top of the leaderboard looked at the end of the third round … -11: Scottie Scheffler -8: Alex Noren -7: Davis Riley, JT Poston -6: Jon Rahm, Kim Si-woo, Jhonattan Vegas -5: Keegan Bradley, Tony Finau, Bryson DeChambeau, Matthieu Pavon, Matt Fitzpatrick … and here are the tee times (all BST). It's on! 13.10 Chris Kirk (US), Sergio Garcia (Spa) 13.20 Bud Cauley (US), Byeong Hun An (Kor) 13.30 Brian Campbell (US), Elvis Smylie (Aus) 13.40 Austin Eckroat (US), Brian Harman (US) 13.50 Tom Kim (Kor), Michael Kim (US) 14.00 Nicolai Højgaard (Den), Stephan Jaeger (Ger) 14.10 Justin Lower (US), Kevin Yu (Tai) 14.20 Daniel Berger (US), Rasmus Højgaard (Den) 14.30 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Collin Morikawa (US) 14.40 Xander Schauffele (US), Sam Burns (US) 14.50 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (SA), Rory McIlroy (NI) 15.10 Richard Bland (Eng), Sam Stevens (US) 15.20 Tom McKibbin (NI), Corey Conners (Can) 15.30 Luke Donald (Eng), Thorbjørn Olesen (Den) 15.40 Marco Penge (Eng), Beau Hossler (US) 15.50 Max Homa (US), Wyndham Clark (US) 16.00 Harris English (US), Aaron Rai (Eng) 16.10 Eric Cole (US), Nico Echavarria (Col) 16.20 Rafael Campos (Pur), Cameron Young (US) 16.30 Michael Thorbjornsen (US), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng) 16.40 Harry Hall (Eng), Taylor Moore (US) 16.50 Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Viktor Hovland (Nor) 17.10 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), David Puig (Spa) 17.20 JJ Spaun (US), Alex Smalley (US) 17.30 Taylor Pendrith (Can), Maverick McNealy (US) 17.40 Ben Griffin (US), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn) 17.50 Ryan Fox (NZ), Max Greyserman (US) 18.00 Denny McCarthy (US), Ryan Gerard (US) 18.10 Lucas Glover (US), Cam Davis (Aus) 18.20 Joe Highsmith (US), Garrick Higgo (SA) 18.30 Matt Wallace (Eng), Adam Scott (Aus) 18.40 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng) 19.00 Tony Finau (US), Bryson DeChambeau (US) 19.10 Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Keegan Bradley (US) 19.20 Jon Rahm (Spa), Kim Si-woo (Kor) 19.30 Davis Riley (US), JT Poston (US) 19.40 Scottie Scheffler (US), Alex Noren (Swe) Share
The Independent
18-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Scottie Scheffler rivals can take heart from Justin Thomas tale in US PGA finale
Justin Thomas may have missed the cut in the 107th US PGA Championship, but the two-time winner still offered hope to anyone aiming to deny Scottie Scheffler at Quail Hollow. A superb third round of 65 gave Scheffler a three-shot lead over Sweden's Alex Noren in pursuit of his third major title, the world number one having won the Masters in 2022 and 2024. Scheffler converted the 54-hole lead at Augusta National on both occasions and has gone on to win on each of the last five times he has been in such a position, most recently when cruising to an eight-shot win in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson on his last start. Thirteen of the last 14 winners of the US PGA Championship were also either leading or within two strokes of the lead entering the final round, which is where Thomas comes in. Thomas was seven shots off the lead entering the final round at Southern Hills in 2022, but carded a closing 67 – his third of the week – before beating Will Zalatoris in a three-hole play-off. Chile's Mito Pereira held a one-shot lead with one hole to play, but found water off the tee on the 18th and ran up a double-bogey six to miss out on the play-off. Water is also very much in play on the closing stretch at Quail Hollow, where the par-four 16th, par-three 17th and par-four 18th are collectively known as 'The Green Mile' and form one of the toughest finishes on the PGA Tour. Not that Scheffler seemed to notice in round three as he followed a par on the 16th with birdies on the last two holes to separate himself from the chasing pack, although Noren navigated the last three holes in identical fashion. The 42-year-old former Ryder Cup winner's performance is remarkable given that it is just his second tournament since October due to a hamstring injury, a tie for 51st in last week's Truist Championship offering few indications that he would be challenging for a first major title in his 40th attempt. Noren would join 2016 Open champion Henrik Stenson as the only male Swedish players to have won a major, an achievement which would end a streak of nine straight American winners of the US PGA. However, with Scheffler leading and Davis Riley and JT Poston lurking a shot behind Noren, the odds favoured American dominance extending to a decade.
