The PGA Championship: How to watch, betting odds for golf's second major of 2026

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — The Philadelphia area gets its first major championship since the U.S. Open at Merion in 2013, and Aronimink did not disappoint after the first round of the PGA Championship.

Scottie Scheffler was part of a seven-way tie for the lead after the opening round. It's the first time Scheffler, already a four-time major champion and the No. 1 player in the world, has had at least a share of the 18-hole lead in a major.

Of greater interest was the score of 3-under 67. For the PGA Championship, it's the highest-score to par to be atop the leaderboard since Jeev Milkha Singh and Robert Karlsson were at 2-under 68 in 2008 at Oakland Hills.

The surprises Thursday? Martin Kaymer tied for the lead. It's the first time since the 2020 PGA Championship he has been among the top 10 after any round at any major. Rory McIlroy bogeyed his last four holes for a 74. And Michael Block, the California club pro, shot 70.

Maybe the better questions is who isn't in the lead? Scheffler now has been atop the leaderboard of a major for the 13th time, but this is the first time on a Thursday. Joining him is Kaymer, Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaeger, Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune and Alex Smalley.

It's the biggest logjam at a major since there was a nine-way tie for the lead after 18 holes in the 1969 PGA Championship at NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio. One of those players was Raymond Floyd, who went on to capture his first major.

The seven players who are one shot behind at 68 include Xander Schauffele and Patrick Reed.

Most impressive about Reed is being the only player to go bogey-free in the opening round at Aronimink.

The group at 69 includes major champions Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm. Also on that list is Cameron Smith, who hasn't made a cut in a major since 2024.

This major will be carried by two networks — ESPN and CBS Sports, combined for 46 hours of live coverage from Aronimink.

Friday's round will be on ESPN+ from the opening tee shot at 7 a.m. until noon, and then ESPN takes over until 7 p.m.

For the weekend, ESPN+ will get it started from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., followed by ESPN coverage from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CBS and streaming platform Paramount+ will go from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

McIlroy's foot wasn't the problem in the first round. It was his driver. McIlroy hit only five fairways and it cost him. He had bogeys on five of his last six holes — the exception was a birdie on the par-3 fifth hole. He went from even par and right in the mix to a 74 and a tie for 105th place.

McIlroy also shot 74 in the opening round of the PGA Championship last year.

That would be Garrick Higgo, who was 10 seconds late to the tee for his group's 7:18 a.m. start. That led to a two-shot penalty for being late to the tee. Higgo shot 69. If he had arrived 10 seconds earlier, he could have been tied for the lead.

Scheffler started as the betting favorite at +450. Now he's at +188 after the opening round.

Schauffele is next at +1000, followed by Rahm at +1400.

The favorite not named Scheffler among the seven players who shared the lead was Lee at +1800. McIlroy, who is seven shots behind in a tie for 105th, is now at +6600.

The winner gets the Wanamaker Trophy and a lifetime exemption to the PGA Championship, along with five-year exemptions to the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open.

For Spieth, there's even more at stake. This will be his 10th attempt at completing the career Grand Slam by winning the PGA Championship. Spieth won the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015, and the British Open in 2017. The last player to complete the career slam was McIlroy at the Masters.

Scheffler won his first PGA Championship and third overall major at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina. He lost a big lead on the front nine Sunday but then pulled away from Rahm and everyone else for a five-shot victory.

Scheffler has won all four of his majors by at least three shots.

Aronimink might have caught a break. There was far more rain in the forecast when players began to arrive. Now it should be dry the rest of the way with warming temperatures.

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Brooks Koepka chips to the green on the sixth hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament practice round at Aronimink Golf Club, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Jordan Spieth walks to green on the eighth hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament practice round at Aronimink Golf Club, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, walks to green on the eighth hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament practice round at Aronimink Golf Club, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Fans watch Scottie Scheffler hits on the eighth green during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 killing that put him on the brink of execution three separate times.

Glossip wore a gray short-sleeved shirt and jeans as he walked out of the jail hand-in-hand with his wife, Lea Glossip.

“I'm just thankful for my wife and my attorneys. Just thankful,” he said. "It's overwhelming, but it’s amazing at the same time.”

Earlier Thursday, Judge Natalie Mai issued an order setting bond at $500,000. Glossip must wear an electronic monitoring device and will not be allowed to travel outside Oklahoma. He also must not contact any witnesses in the case, or consume any drugs or alcohol.

His attorney Donald Knight had suggested Glossip was counting on contributions to raise the money.

“Mr. Glossip has many supporters and we are hopeful those supporters can afford the bail,” Knight said.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction, and his longstanding claims of innocence have drawn support from Kim Kardashian and other prominent figures.

Glossip had been sentenced to death over the 1997 killing in Oklahoma City of his former boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, who was beaten with a baseball bat in what prosecutors have alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme.

The Supreme Court ruled last year that prosecutors’ decision to allow a key witness to give testimony they knew to be false violated Glossip’s constitutional right to a fair trial.

Glossip has remained behind bars after Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the state would seek to retry him on a murder charge but not pursue the death penalty again.

“The court fully expects that the state will rigorously prosecute its case going forward and the defense will provide robust representation for Glossip,” the judge wrote in the order. “The court hopes that a new trial, free of error, will provided all interested parties and the citizens of Oklahoma, the closure they deserve.”

During his time on death row, courts in Oklahoma set nine different execution dates for Glossip, and he came so close to being put to death that he ate three separate last meals. In 2015, he was even held in a cell next to Oklahoma’s execution chamber, waiting to be strapped to a gurney and die by lethal injection.

But the scheduled time for his execution came and went. Behind the walls of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, prison officials were scrambling after learning one of the lethal drugs they received to carry out the procedure didn’t match the execution protocols. The drug mix-up ultimately led to a nearly seven-year moratorium on executions in Oklahoma.

“Mr. Glossip now has the chance to taste freedom while his defense team continues to pursue justice on his behalf against a system that the United States Supreme Court has found to be guilty of serious misconduct by state prosecutors,” Knight said.

Van Treese’s family had asked the Supreme Court to leave Glossip’s conviction and sentence intact. Attorneys for the family did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

Glossip’s case attracted international attention after actress Susan Sarandon — who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean’s fight to save a man on Louisiana’s death row in the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking” — took up his cause in real life. Glossip’s case also was featured in the 2017 documentary film titled “Killing Richard Glossip.”

“Both Richard and I are grateful for the court’s decision,” Glossip’s wife, Lea, said in a text to The Associated Press. “We have been praying for this day.”

Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip, right after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip, right, after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip, right after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip, right, after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Former death row prisoner Richard Glossip, center, speaks to media after exiting a detention facility after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

FILE - Oklahoma County Sheriff's deputies lead longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip to a courtroom, June 9, 2025, at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy, File)

FILE - Oklahoma County Sheriff's deputies lead longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip to a courtroom on June 9, 2025, at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy, File)