Tiger Woods played at Southern Hills with Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth

Tiger Woods has been assembled with Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth for the initial two rounds of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills.

Spieth shows up with one more chance to turn out to be only the 6th player in the cutting edge period to finish golf’s profession Grand Slam, following on from Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Woods, having won his third major at The Open in 2017.

Woods gets back to the setting where he guaranteed the latest of his four PGA Championship triumphs in 2007, with the 15-time significant top dog set to make his initial beginning since completing 47th in his return from profession compromising wounds at The Masters a month ago.

McIlroy finishes that elite player threesome as he hopes to expand on a next in line finish at Augusta National and end a significant dry season extending back to 2014, with that marquee bunch going out at 8.11am nearby time on Thursday (2.11pm BST) and 1.36pm (7.36pm BST) on Friday.

Aces champion Scottie Scheffler has been gathered close by double cross significant victor Collin Morikawa and ruling US Open hero Jon Rahm, the main player who can jump Scheffler at the highest point of the world rankings this week.

Rahm would require a triumph and for Scheffler, searching for a fifth success of the year after a prevailing beginning to 2022, to complete external the main five for the Spaniard to move back to world No 1.

FedExCup champion Patrick Cantlay has been matched with Ryder Cup partners Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas, who asserted his lady significant title in the 2017 challenge, while previous world No 1 Adam Scott and four-time significant top dog Brooks Koepka go out with Ireland’s Shane Lowry.