1st AND 2nd ROUND STARTING TIMES
The stage is set. See when your favorite players tee off in the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills. TIGER WOODS along with other big names in golf and past champions headline the 2022 PGA Championship. Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth will play together during the first two rounds. Woods is a three-winner at the PGA, while McIlroy has won this event twice. Spieth is seeking his first, and a win would cap his career Grand Slam. They’ll tee off together at 8:11 CT Thursday morning, and at 1:36 p.m. Friday afternoon for Round 2.
Tuesday at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club, Woods met with the media as he prepared to make his first start since the Masters Tournament, in which he equated the experience to climbing the world’s highest peak.
“Figured the first mountain you climbed was Everest,” Woods said about walking Augusta National Golf Club, which is known for its undulating terrain. “That’s the steepest golf course you’re going to play and that was the first one you climbed it, and climbed. It’s going to get flatter and better.”
It’s been six weeks since Woods last competed and he says he’s physically much stronger than he was during the season’s first major championship. As much as his putting waned on the weekend, he recorded four three-putts and a four-putt during the third round, it was fatigue that Woods says got the better of him at Augusta and he was determined to not let that be a factor at Southern Hills.
“I’ve put in a lot of hard work with my team, and I believe in them and what they have been able to get me to do. I just have to go out there and obviously do it and hit the golf shots,” Woods said about his preparation for the PGA Championship. “I’ve had to alter my golf swing here and there and practice sessions and work on things, and I’ve had to do a lot of shadow swinging in front of mirrors because I’m just not able to handle impact, but I’ve gotten better and stronger since then, and will continue to improve.”
Outside of the physical obstacles Woods will need to overcome to scale Southern Hills, the course itself has changed quite a bit since his victory there in 2007.
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