The 2026 PGA Championship gets underway this week at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, with Harris English among the players in the field as one of golf’s biggest prizes comes back into focus. Scottie Scheffler arrives as the defending champion after winning last year by five strokes to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy.
Coverage begins May 16-17 with a main feed on the App from 8-10 a.m. ET, while Featured Group 1 and Featured Group 2 run from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. ET. Featured Group 3 and Featured Group 4 are scheduled from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. ET, with featured holes coverage from 10:45 a.m.-7 p.m. ET. On Saturday and Sunday, third-round coverage airs from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET on and 1-7 p.m. ET on CBS.
The tournament arrives with more than just a trophy chase. Rory McIlroy is back after winning the Masters, the year’s first major, and Jordan Spieth can complete the career Grand Slam with a victory. The field also includes Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Max Homa, Cameron Young, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas and Adam Scott, a group that makes the leaderboard feel crowded before the first ball is struck.
That sense of congestion only deepened by the weekend, when Sunday at Aronimink figures to be unpredictable and chaotic with 21 players within four shots of leader Alex Smalley. Eight major champions are among those 21 players, a number that suggests the final round could turn quickly no matter who starts the day on top.
Scheffler’s own path to that title last year showed how quickly control can slip away. He used to describe a final round in which a three-shot lead was erased, then held steady to win the PGA Championship by five shots as Jon Rahm stumbled down the stretch. Rahm later apologized after a divot from an angry swing hit a volunteer, another reminder that major championships can tilt just as much on emotion as on ball striking.
Conditions have also done their part to keep players off balance. Scheffler and the rest of the field were navigating absurd hole locations at the PGA Championship, and that kind of setup leaves little room for comfort. Higgo still managed a 69 despite a two-stroke penalty, the sort of round that says as much about survival as it does about scoring.
So the week begins with all the usual names, all the broadcast windows, and a leaderboard already packed with contenders. If Aronimink turns as volatile as expected, the PGA Championship may be decided less by pedigree than by who can handle the pressure when the tournament tightens all at once.
