Tiger Woods and the world’s 103 top-ranked golfers have been amongst these named Tuesday as the sphere was introduced for subsequent week’s 106th PGA Championship at Valhalla.
Woods, a 15-time main winner, has struggled to stroll 4 rounds in tournaments since struggling extreme leg accidents in a 2021 automobile crash however completed sixtieth in final month’s Masters and says he hopes to play as soon as a month by means of the US and British Opens.
Woods, ranked 801, has accepted a particular invitation to subsequent month’s US Open.
He withdrew after three rounds in 2022 in his most up-to-date PGA Championship begin, skipping final yr after ankle surgical procedure.
Woods and four-time main winner Rory McIlroy of Northern Eire have every gained PGA Championship titles at Valhalla — Woods in 2000 and McIlroy in 2014 in his most up-to-date main triumph.
The PGA discipline consists of 33 main winners, 16 of them former PGA Championship winners.
Two vacancies stay within the discipline of 156, awaiting winners of this week’s PGA Tour occasions if they aren’t already certified for the showdown at Louisville, Kentucky.
The lineup consists of top-ranked Scottie Scheffler, who gained his second Masters title final month, and the remainder of the highest 103 gamers within the official world golf rankings.
Scheffler is skipping this week’s PGA Tour signature occasion to be with spouse Meredith as she prepares to have a child.
Defending champion Brooks Koepka of the USA is amongst 16 gamers from the LIV Golf League who will compete within the yr’s second main event.
Different LIV gamers from the world’s prime 100 embody fifth-ranked Jon Rahm, England’s Seventeenth-ranked Tyrrell Hatton, Australia’s Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert, Poland’s Adrian Meronk, Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and American Patrick Reed.
Different main winners from LIV embody Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Martin Kaymer.
American Talor Gooch, final yr’s LIV season champion, was invited into his fifth consecutive PGA Championship. His finest end result was a share of twentieth in 2022 however he missed the lower final yr.
The sector consists of 21 membership professionals, 20 qualifiers and Michael Block, who returns after sharing fifteenth final yr at Oak Hill.