PGA Championship 2025 leaderboard LIVE: Latest scores as Rory McIlroy tees off for Round 1

A bit of fortune for Rory McIlroy from the 15th tee. His ball would have been bound for the water in any other year at Quail Hollow but not this with the groundskeepers letting the rough grow to provide a bit of extra protection. It snags to save the Northern Irishman from a watery grave.

That group on three-under are getting more and more crowded. Keegan Bradley has indeed converted another chance, while Nico Echavarria, the talented Colombian who won at the Zozo Championship late last year, has benefitted from a delicious approach at eight, finding the right slope to bring it back towards the flag.

Fox and Fleetwood both miss out on the chance to take the outright lead as each man leaves a putt high out to the right.

A birdie opportunity goes awry on 14 for Rory McIlroy, his putt spinning in and out and leaving him a nasty one for par. Safely tucked away.

The top of the leaderboard is starting to have a real English feel – Matt Fitzpatrick joins compatriots Tommy Fleetwood and Luke Donald up alongside Ryan Fox.

The back nine looks to be playing a little easier than the front this morning – making the efforts of Luke Donald intriguing. Having been out in the day’s first group, he hustles through the ninth at -2 with the chance of a really good round if he can bring it home. Having expressed a goal simply of making the cut, this is a good little opening number from the 47-year-old.

And it gets better! A birdie at 10 for Europe’s skipper!

It’s now, somehow, 14 years since Keegan Bradley won his only major in Atlanta – but the 2011 PGA champion is looking in fine form here, flicking the flag on the hop as he tattoos the pin at 13. Knock that short birdie putt home and he’ll be up alongside the flying Fox and Fleetwood…

Luke Donald will like the look of the top of the leaderboard. Not only is the European Ryder Cup captain still up there, he’s been joined at -2 by Matt Fitzpatrick, Stephan Jaeger, Alex Noren and Rasmus Hojgaard – though American counterpart Keegan Bradley (who is bidding to become a rare playing captain at Bethpage Black) has also begun brightly.

Three on the spin from Tommy Fleetwood! Into a share of the lead the Englishman goes having bounced beautifully through 13, 14, 15.

The 14th is only playing a little over 310 yards, but you have to be careful – and Xander Schauffele shows why! The defending champion tries to draw a drive wood into the green but starts it too straight. A discouraging plop reveals its fate.

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are both safely in play.

Another solid shot from Ryan Fox, finding the heart of the green as he prepares to take the “turn” at 18 having begun on the tenth hole.

Scottie Scheffler rattles in a solid par save on 13.