Scottie Scheffler is in position to clinch the third major title of his career after dominating the back nine at Quail Hollow on Saturday to open up a three-shot lead.
The world No 1 picked up five shots in the final five holes, making a mockery of the notorious last three known as the Green Mile. Scheffler produced a stunning eagle on 14 followed by birdies on 16, 17 and 18 to leave himself on the brink of a first PGA Championship title.
But there is plenty of quality and experience in the chasing pack, with Sweden’s Alex Noren three shots behind and Americans JT Poston and Davis Riley a futher shot adrift on seven under par. Jon Rahm lurks on six under, while Bryson DeChambeau and Matt Fitzpatrick begin this final round on five under.
Follow all the latest action from the PGA Championship third round below.
PGA Championship 2025
- World No 1 Scottie Scheffler leads field before final round of PGA Championship
- Scheffler’s third-round 65 puts him in pole position to win a third major title
- Sweden’s Alex Noren and Americans JT Poston and Davis Riley are nearest rivals
- Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Matt Fitzpatrick among chasing pack
PGA Championship 202519:31 , Lawrence Ostlere
DeChambeau doesn’t hit his birdie putt at all on two, and settles for another par. His tee shot on the third is long but left, and appears to land under a spectator’s legs.
ScottieScheffler is striding to the first tee…
PGA Championship 202519:22 , Lawrence Ostlere
JonnyVegas finds the sand left of the first green.
Up ahead on two, DeChambeau hits the heart of the green with his second shot, and he’ll have a look at birdie.
PGA Championship 202519:17 , Lawrence Ostlere
Ben Griffin is flying out there right now, four under through seven holes, and joins the chasers on -6.
Leaderboard
-11 Scheffler
-8 Noren
-7 Riley, Poston
-6 Rahm, Kim, Vegas, Griffin (7)
PGA Championship 202519:11
DeChambeau misses the first green left, but chips beautifully and leaves three feet for par.
PGA Championship 202519:05 , Lawrence Ostlere
Bryson DeChambeau (-5) booms his first tee shot down the fairway and he’s perfectly positioned.
Up ahead, MattFitzpatrick makes bogey at the first after missing the green left and drops back to four under.
Leaderboard
-11 Scheffler
-8 Noren
-7 Riley, Poston
-6 Rahm, Kim, Vegas
McIlroy ends his PGA Championship19:02 , Lawrence Ostlere
Rory McIlroy finishes on three over par for the tournament. Not his best form this week, and it just never clicked for him. Plenty of time, though, before his home Open Championship at Portrush to tune his game.
Fitzpatrick begins his final round18:46 , Lawrence Ostlere
Matt Fitzpatrick (-5) is wearing Sunday red as he bids to shoot a low score that could throw him into the mix. His tee shot on the first finds the fairway, and he’s off.
Leaderboard
-11 Scheffler
-8 Noren
-7 Riley, Poston
-6 Rahm, Kim, Pavon, Vegas
PGA Championship 202518:33 , Lawrence Ostlere
Six more groups still to tee off today (times BST):
1840 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
1900 Tony Finau, Bryson DeChambeau
1910 Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Keegan Bradley
1920 Jon Rahm (Esp), Si Woo Kim (Kor)
1930 Davis Riley, JT Poston
1940 Scottie Scheffler, Alex Noren (Swe)
DeChambeau warms up for 7pm BST tee time18:29 , Lawrence Ostlere
BrysonDeChambeau is warming up as he prepares his bid on Sunday. Scottie Scheffler is the overwhelming favourite but if anyone can pull off a stunning turnaround, it’s Bryson.
Quail Hollow ripe for scoring on Sunday18:15 , Lawrence Ostlere
Xander Schauffele and Sam Burns, playing together, are both five under today through 15 holes. If that is an indication of the scoring potential, we could be in for some seriously low numbers among the leaders.
PGA Championship 202518:05 , Lawrence Ostlere
We’re getting towards the business end of this PGA Championship Sunday, so here’s a reminder of the top of the leaderboard.
-11 Scheffler (65)
-8 Noren (66)
-7 Riley (67), Poston (68)
-6 Rahm (67), Kim (71), Pavon (71), Vegas (73)
McIlroy wayward on 1417:51 , Lawrence Ostlere
Rory McIlroy is level for the day but in a spot of trouble on the par-four 14th, where he’s found the water with his tee shot. He chips close, though, and he’ll have a chance to putt for par.
Garcia expects low scores17:25 , Lawrence Ostlere
Sergio Garcia finishes on seven over par after two good rounds and two bad ones, and the Spaniard gives his post-round verdict on the course.
“It’s probably the easiest it’s ever gonna get, 90 per cent of the pins are in the middle of the green, not much wind, so I think there’ll be some low scores this afternoon.
“I expect Scottie to shoot at least three under, so Jon [Rahm] is going to have to shoot eight, nine or 10 under to win.”
Burns on a hot streak17:07 , Lawrence Ostlere
Sam Burns is having fun out there, four under through the front nine. He has propelled himself up the leaderboard to be knocking on the door of the top 20 at two under par.
Scheffler has one hand on the trophy16:39 , Lawrence Ostlere
Scottie Scheffler will look to put the finishing touches on a third career major title when he sets off in the final round later at Quail Hollow Club with a three-shot lead over Swede Alex Noren.
World number one Scheffler is scheduled to head out in the day’s final pairing with Noren at 7.40pm BST with forecasts calling for breezy conditions and mostly cloudy skies.
Scheffler emerged atop the leaderboard late in Saturday’s third round with a scintillating finish that saw him cover the last five holes in five under, a stretch that included a tap-in eagle at the par-four 14th hole.
“I have a good opportunity to go out there and try and win the golf tournament,” Scheffler said after the third round. “But it’s going to take another really good round.
“There’s a lot of great players chasing me on the leaderboard and someone is going to put up a great round and it’s up to me to go out there and have another really good round and finish off the tournament.”
Homa fed up in final round16:31 , Lawrence Ostlere
MaxHoma is showing some incredibly relatable emotions right now, launching a club down the fairway in frustration as his approach to the third green goes awry. Homa followed his stunning 64 on Friday with a demoralising 76 on Saturday – oh golf! – and he’s already in trouble on Sunday.
So far today…16:14 , Lawrence Ostlere
About half of the 74-strong field have now teed off in this final round, with mixed success so far. RasmusHojgaard shot 75 yesterday and he is already +3 through seven holes today, and +7 for the Championship. At the other end of the scale, ChrisKirk – who recorded a painful 78 yesterday – is four under through 14 holes and ticking along nicely. TommyFleetwood is two under for the day after seven holes, moving up the leaderboard to +1.
Round four tee times (BST)15:54 , Lawrence Ostlere
1710 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), David Puig (Esp)
1720 JJ Spaun, Alex Smalley
1730 Taylor Pendrith (Can), Maverick McNealy
1740 Ben Griffin, Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn)
1750 Ryan Fox (Nzl), Max Greyserman
1800 Denny McCarthy, Ryan Gerard
1810 Lucas Glover, Cam Davis (Aus)
1820 Joe Highsmith, Garrick Higgo (Rsa)
1830 Matt Wallace (Eng), Adam Scott (Aus)
1840 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
1900 Tony Finau, Bryson DeChambeau
1910 Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Keegan Bradley
1920 Jon Rahm (Esp), Si Woo Kim (Kor)
1930 Davis Riley, JT Poston
1940 Scottie Scheffler, Alex Noren (Swe)
Round four tee times (BST)15:40 , Lawrence Ostlere
1510 Richard Bland (Eng), Sam Stevens
1520 Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Corey Conners (Can)
1530 Luke Donald (Eng), Thorbjorn Olesen (Den)
1540 Marco Penge (Eng), Beau Hossler
1550 Max Homa, Wyndham Clark
1600 Harris English, Aaron Rai (Eng)
1610 Eric Cole, Nico Echavarria (Col)
1620 Rafael Campos (Pue), Cameron Young
1630 Michael Thorbjornsen, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)
1640 Harry Hall (Eng), Taylor Moore
1650 Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Viktor Hovland (Nor)
Round four tee times (BST)15:28 , Lawrence Ostlere
The final round is already under way, with Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy among those out on the course.
1310 Chris Kirk, Sergio Garcia (Esp)
1320 Bud Cauley, Byeong Hun An (Kor)
1330 Brian Campbell, Elvis Smylie (Aus)
1340 Austin Eckroat, Brian Harman
1350 Tom Kim (Kor), Michael Kim
1400 Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Stephan Jaeger (Ger)
1410 Justin Lower, Kevin Yu (Tpe)
1420 Daniel Berger, Rasmus Hojgaard (Den)
1430 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Collin Morikawa
1440 Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns
1450 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rory McIlroy (NIrl)
PGA Championship prize money15:11 , Lawrence Ostlere
The PGA Championship bumped its purse by $500,000 to $19m, third-highest among the three U.S. majors.
The Masters last month raised its purse by $1m to $21m. The U.S. Open will announced its purse next month at Oakmont. It was $21.5m in 2024. The British Open was $17m last year and its prize fund has yet to be announced.
The winner of the PGA Championship gets $3.42m. The last time it was at Quail Hollow in 2017, the purse was $10.5m and Justin Thomas won $1.89m. This year, the runner-up will get just over $2m.
Fitzpatrick fades on moving day14:41 , Lawrence Ostlere
Former US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick is in a drought that has seen him go 20 straight tournaments without a top 10 dating to the Memorial last year, so it was worth noting that he worked his way into a tie for the lead at the PGA Championship.
He even had a 12-foot birdie putt for the lead on No. 12 and winced when it narrowly missed.
And then two holes set him back. He three-putted on the par-3 13th from down the slope 45 feet away. On the reachable 14, he drove right in thick grass on the hill leaving a delicate chip. He left that in the rough. The next one raced across the green into more rough.
Fitzpatrick had to get up-and-down with a 5-foot putt to make bogey on the easiest hole at Quail Hollow on Saturday.
He wound up six shots behind and looking at the big picture.
“I made big steps in where I’ve been over the last four or five months, so happy I’m up front,” he said. “Always a day you like to go forward but not ideal.”
Noren makes surprise bid for trophy14:29 , Lawrence Ostlere
He got there with a burst at the finish, four birdies over his last five holes, for a 66 that gave him the lead until Scottie Scheffler played a closing stretch equally impressive.
Noren, a 10-time winner on the European Tour after a college career at Oklahoma State, has only two top 10s in the majors and has never seriously contended.
The injury involved a torn tendon in his hamstring on the sit bone. It was a tough injury because it requires so much time to heal. He couldn’t swing a club. He couldn’t run or jump, but he otherwise lived a normal life spending time with his family. That was nice.
“It’s good to take a break sometimes,” said Noren, who has a reputation as among the hardest workers in golf. “I missed it, but I also liked what I had at the time, which helps me maybe realize a little bit that I don’t think it’s the end of the world if you play bad.”
Noren makes surprise bid for trophy14:13 , Lawrence Ostlere
Alex Noren finally made his way back to tournament golf after seven months away because of a hamstring tear. One week later, the Swede is in the final group at the PGA Championship alongside the world’s No. 1 player.
Noren last played the Dunhill Links Championship on Oct. 6. Instead of closing down the practice range every night, he spent his time at home coaching his daughter’s softball team.
“It was a lot easier to have this break when I’m 42 than when I was younger,” Noren said. “As soon as I kind of could play, I thought I was in sort of the same form I was in before I got injured. But I’m still extremely – not surprised – but I’m fortunate to be in this position this early, yeah.”
DeChambeau with ground to make up13:49 , Lawrence Ostlere
Bryson DeChambeau, who began his day five shots off the pace, was enjoying a bogey-free day and grabbed the outright lead with a birdie at the par-five 15th, where he got up and down from a greenside bunker before a sudden turn of events.
DeChambeau, who finished runner-up at last year’s PGA Championship, bogeyed the 16th and made double-bogey at the par-three 17th where his tee shot ended up in the water. He is six shots back of Scheffler in a share of eighth place.
“It was just an unfortunate series of events that I can handle,” DeChambeau said of his finishing stretch. “It’s just, it’s golf. Sometimes that happens.”
McIlroy out of sorts again13:29 , Lawrence Ostlere
Masters champion Rory McIlroy could only card a third round of 72 to be two over par and declined to talk to the media for the third day in succession.
Rahm ‘hungry’ for major glory13:16 , Lawrence Ostlere
Rahm was 45th in the defence of his Masters title last year and missed the cut in the following month’s US PGA following his shock move to LIV Golf, but insisted the two were not related.
“Me going to LIV and playing worse in majors had nothing to do with where I was playing golf,” he said.
“My swing was simply not at the level it had to be for me to compete.
“There’s been weeks where I was able to play better, like The Open last year, but I would say even 2023, after winning the Masters, I did not play good at all until the Ryder Cup, so I think the problems began earlier than people think.
“But I’m now getting closer to a position of being comfortable. I think this week so far and this round has been a show of it.”
Rahm ‘hungry’ for major glory13:00 , Lawrence Ostlere
Scheffler is now a strong favourite to finally get his hands on the Wanamaker Trophy after separating himself from the field with an eagle on the 14th and birdies on the 15th, 17th and 18th.
That finish made Rahm’s task much harder as he bids to add the US PGA title to his Masters and US Open victories.
“It’s hard to express how hungry I may be for a major, about as hungry as anybody can be in this situation,” Rahm said.
Rahm can become the first Spanish player to lift the Wanamaker Trophy, but he added: “It’s so much deeper than that.
“I would be closer to the grand slam, the first Spanish player since Seve [Ballesteros] to reach three majors and the first from Spain to get three different majors. Right now, you are talking about a dream come true.”
Scheffler takes charge of PGA Championship12:41 , Lawrence Ostlere
Scheffler’s shocking arrest last year happened before the second round as he attempted to get around the traffic jam caused by an earlier fatal accident outside Valhalla.
The two-time major winner was charged with four offences, including second-degree assault of a police officer, after being instructed to stop his car but continuing to head into the course with the officer “attached” to the vehicle.
A mugshot of Scheffler was later released by the Louisville Metropolitan Department of Corrections, which showed he had been released after an hour and 12 minutes, allowing him to make his delayed tee time and eventually card a remarkable 66.
The charges were eventually dropped but the shocking incident made headlines around the world and Scheffler’s chances of winning the title disappeared with a third round of 73.
Scheffler takes charge of PGA Championship12:28 , Lawrence Ostlere
Americans Davis Riley and JT Poston share third place on seven under, with Jon Rahm, halfway leader Jhonattan Vegas and Si Woo Kim on six under.
Bryson DeChambeau is another stroke back – alongside England’s Matt Fitzpatrick – after stumbling badly on the closing three-hole stretch known as “The Green Mile”, the US Open champion dropping a shot on the 16th and making a double bogey on the 17th after finding the water short of the green.
Scheffler takes charge of PGA Championship12:16 , Lawrence Ostlere
What a difference a year makes.
Twelve months after being arrested and driven off to jail in handcuffs during the PGA Championship, Scottie Scheffler will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the same tournament at Quail Hollow.
to complete a superb third round of 65 and reach 11 under par, with Sweden’s Alex Noren his nearest challenger on eight under in just his second competitive start since October.
PGA Championship leaderboard12:02 , Lawrence Ostlere
Here’s how the top of the leaderboard looks after a compelling Saturday’s play:
-11 Scheffler (65)
-8 Noren (66)
-7 Riley (67), Poston (68)
-6 Rahm (67), Kim (71), Pavon (71), Vegas (73)
PGA Championship 2025Sunday 18 May 2025 00:42 , Lawrence Ostlere
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