PGA Championship Round 1 live updates: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry among early starters

Follow all the action from Quail Hollow Cup as McIlroy looks to follow up his Masters win

Rory McIlroy. Photograph: Emilee Chinn/Getty
Rory McIlroy. Photograph: Emilee Chinn/Getty

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Hello and welcome to live coverage of the PGA Championship from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Rory McIlroy has won here four times and it’s his first Major since winning the Masters in such dramatic fashion last month and completing the career Grand Slam. He is out in just over an hour, in a blockbuster group that includes the top three players in the world, himself, Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele, who have won four of the last five Major championships between them.

Meanwhile, Shane Lowry will begin in about half an hour and Pádraig Harrington has just teed off the first so there is plenty to keep on top of early doors. Four of the five Irish players are in action early in the day, Tom McKibbin the only one on a late-early.

Here are the tee times for the Irish for the first two rounds:

Off 1st tee in first round

12pm: L Donald, P Harrington, M Kaymer

7.31pm: T Kanaya, C Bezuidenhout, T McKibbin

Off 10th tee in first round

12.16pm: A Chi, P Fishburn, S Power

12.38pm: B Koepka, R Fowler, S Lowry

1.22pm: R McIlroy, X Schauffele, S Scheffler