PGA Championship 2025 leaderboard LIVE: Latest scores as Rory McIlroy bids to bounce back in round 2

Ryan Gerard stumbled late but remained near the top of the leaderboard after the round of his life at Quail Hollow.

Gerard, a North Carolina native competing in just his third major, was cruising along and sitting three shots clear until bogeys on his final two holes left him with a five-under-par 66.

The 25-year-old Gerard looked in total control as he roared out of the turn with four consecutive birdies and then chipped in for eagle at the par-five 15th before missing the green at the par-three 17th and finding a fairway bunker at the last.

World No 1 Scheffler salvaged his round with two birdies over his closing three holes for a two-under-par 69 while Schauffele, bidding to become the event’s first repeat champions since Brooks Koepka in 2019, carded a 72.

Scheffler jump-started his round with an eagle at the 15th but gave it back with a double-bogey at 16 when his approach shot from the fairway landed in the water behind the green.

It marked the first time Scheffler had ever made a double-bogey, or worse, in the first round of a major.

“I’m satisfied with my finish. It’s always nice coming off the course finishing with a birdie,” said Scheffler.

“Overall I did a good job battling and keeping a level head out there during a day which there was definitely some challenging aspects to the course.”

Rory McIlroy, in his first major since completing the career Grand Slam, struggled on a course he is used to dominating.

There was plenty of focus on McIlroy ahead of the year’s second major, not only due to his stellar form this year but also because Quail Hollow is his happy hunting ground having won the PGA Tour event there for a record fourth time last year.

But McIlroy, who started from the 10th tee alongside Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele in a group featuring the world’s top three players, was errant off the tee and struggled to get anything going as he posted an opening three-over-par 74.

Afterwards McIlroy skipped media duties to work on the range.

Ryder Cup captains Luke Donald and Keegan Bradley made a brilliant start at Quail Hollow on Thursday, with Europe’s Donald shooting a bogey-less 67 and his US rival a further shot back after a 68.

Prior to the opening round, only five sitting Ryder Cup captains had opened a PGA Championship with a round in the 60s during a Ryder Cup year, all of whom were American and the most recent being Jim Furyk in 2018 at Bellerive.

Masters champion Rory McIlroy faces an uphill battle to claim back-to-back major titles after an error-strewn opening round in the 107th US PGA Championship.

McIlroy’s play-off victory over Justin Rose at Augusta National in April had made him just the sixth male golfer to complete a career grand slam and gave him a fifth major title, one behind Sir Nick Faldo.

The world number two was also strongly fancied to equal Faldo’s tally at the first opportunity at Quail Hollow, a venue where he won his first PGA Tour title in 2010 and has since claimed three more victories, including last year.

However, McIlroy, who hit just three fairways in regulation, was fortunate not to find the water with a number of pulled tee shots and unsurprisingly did not speak to the media before heading straight to the range after his round.

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“67 on a course that’s probably not suited to my game is pretty good. My putter felt good and the hole just seemed a little bigger today, which is a pretty nice feeling in golf.”

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