2017 PGA Championship
The 2017 PGA Championship was the 99th PGA Championship, held August 10–13 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was the first major at Quail Hollow, which is a regular stop on the PGA Tour.
Early in the week of the tournament, it was announced that the championship will be held in May beginning in 2019.
Justin Thomas won his first career major title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, and Patrick Reed.
Media
In the United States, the Championship was televised by CBS, with weekday and early weekend coverage on TNT. It was televised live in the United Kingdom by the BBC who secured the rights over Sky Sports who had previously screened the event since 1992.Course layout
The course hosts the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour, though not in 2017; in 2016, it played as a par-72 at. It was also the home of the tour's Kemper Open and the senior tour's PaineWebber World Seniors Invitational in the 1980s.Under the direction of Tom Fazio, Quail Hollow underwent an aggressive 90-day renovation in 2016 that modified four holes and added Bermuda grass. It commenced during the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday, May 8. Thousands of trees were removed, as the former first two holes were combined into a new first hole, and the old fifth hole was divided between the new fourth and fifth holes.
Field
The following qualification criteria were used to select the field. Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.1. All former PGA Champions
- Rich Beem
- Keegan Bradley
- John Daly
- Jason Day
- Jason Dufner
- Pádraig Harrington
- Davis Love III
- Rory McIlroy
- Shaun Micheel
- Phil Mickelson
- Vijay Singh
- Jimmy Walker
- Yang Yong-eun
- Martin Kaymer did not play due to a shoulder injury.
- David Toms did not play.
- The following former champions did not enter: Paul Azinger, Mark Brooks, Jack Burke Jr., Steve Elkington, Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Hubert Green, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins, Tiger Woods
- Sergio García
- Adam Scott
- Jordan Spieth
- Bubba Watson
- Danny Willett
- Dustin Johnson
- Brooks Koepka
- Justin Rose
- Zach Johnson
- Henrik Stenson
- Bernhard Langer did not play.
- Paul Casey
- Branden Grace
- Emiliano Grillo
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Hideki Matsuyama
- William McGirt
- Patrick Reed
- Webb Simpson
- Robert Streb
- Daniel Summerhays
- Alex Beach
- Rich Berberian, Jr.
- Jamie Broce
- Paul Claxton
- Stuart Deane
- Matt Dobyns
- Greg Gregory
- Jaysen Hansen
- Scott Hebert
- Dave McNabb
- Chris Moody
- David Muttitt
- Rod Perry
- Kenny Pigman
- Adam Rainaud
- Mike Small
- Brian Smock
- Omar Uresti
- Ryan Vermeer
- J. J. Wood
- Daniel Berger
- Wesley Bryan
- Rafa Cabrera-Bello
- Bud Cauley
- Kevin Chappell
- Tony Finau
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Rickie Fowler
- Lucas Glover
- Bill Haas
- Adam Hadwin
- James Hahn
- Brian Harman
- Russell Henley
- Charley Hoffman
- J. B. Holmes
- Billy Horschel
- Charles Howell III
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Kang Sung-hoon
- Kim Si-woo
- Kevin Kisner
- Russell Knox
- Kelly Kraft
- Matt Kuchar
- Martin Laird
- Danny Lee
- Marc Leishman
- Luke List
- Jamie Lovemark
- Francesco Molinari
- Ryan Moore
- Kevin Na
- Sean O'Hair
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pat Perez
- Thomas Pieters
- Ian Poulter
- Jon Rahm
- Patrick Rodgers
- Xander Schauffele
- Charl Schwartzel
- Cameron Smith
- Kyle Stanley
- Brendan Steele
- Hudson Swafford
- Justin Thomas
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Gary Woodland
- Brandt Snedeker did not play due to a rib injury.
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Andy Sullivan
- Lee Westwood
- Chris Wood
- Jonas Blixt
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Cody Gribble
- Grayson Murray
- Rod Pampling
- D. A. Points
- Chris Stroud
12. Special invitations
- An Byeong-hun
- Thomas Bjørn
- Patrick Cantlay
- Nicolas Colsaerts
- Graham DeLaet
- Luke Donald
- Ernie Els
- Ross Fisher
- Ryan Fox
- Dylan Frittelli
- Jim Furyk
- Scott Hend
- Jim Herman
- Yuta Ikeda
- Thongchai Jaidee
- Andrew Johnston
- Kim Kyung-tae
- Søren Kjeldsen
- Satoshi Kodaira
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pablo Larrazábal
- Alexander Lévy
- Li Haotong
- David Lingmerth
- Shane Lowry
- Joost Luiten
- Graeme McDowell
- Alex Norén
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Jordan Smith
- Song Young-han
- Richard Sterne
- Brandon Stone
- Steve Stricker
- Hideto Tanihara
- Peter Uihlein
- Wang Jeung-hun
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Fabrizio Zanotti
- Jason Kokrak
- Scott Brown
- Chez Reavie
Scott Piercy- Chris Kirk
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, August 10, 2017Kevin Kisner and Thorbjørn Olesen were the co-leaders at 67, with five players one shot behind.
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| T1 | ![]() Second roundFriday, August 11, 2017Saturday, August 12, 2017 Following a weather delay of nearly two hours in the late afternoon, play was suspended at 8:11 pm EDT due to darkness, with 25 players remaining on the course. On the leaderboard, only Chris Stroud was affected, two-under for his round with five holes remaining. Play resumed at 7:30 am on Saturday.
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