The 2022 PGA Championship was a professional golf tournament, held May 19–22 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was the 104th PGA Championship. This was the fifth PGA Championship at Southern Hills and its eighth major championship. The event was originally scheduled to be played at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, but was moved to Southern Hills following the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
Defending champion Phil Mickelson withdrew from the tournament amid controversy over his remarks about LIV Golf. It was the first time he had missed the PGA Championship since 1992, and the first time the defending champion did not play since 2008, when Tiger Woods was sidelined after knee surgery.
Justin Thomas defeated Will Zalatoris in a three-hole aggregate playoff to win his second PGA Championship (2017). Thomas came from seven shots behind at the start of the final round to win, tying the largest comeback in PGA Championship history. Mito Pereira, the 54-hole leader in his first PGA Championship appearance, led by one shot playing the 72nd hole before hitting his drive into a water hazard and making a double-bogey to finish a shot out of the playoff.
This was the first major championship to go to a playoff since the 2017 Masters, a span of 19 consecutive majors, the longest in history.
This year's purse was increased 25% to $15 million, with a winner's share of $2.7 million.
Venue
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Southern Hills had previously hosted the PGA Championship in 1970, 1982, 1994, and 2007; it also hosted the U.S. Open in 1958, 1977, and 2001.
Field The field for the PGA Championship is sometimes regarded as the strongest in professional golf, routinely having the highest "strength of field rating" of the year according to the Official World Golf Ranking. A number of qualification criteria are used to determine the field, which includes past PGA champions, recent major winners, top finishers in the 2021 PGA Championship, Ryder Cup players, tournament and leading money winners on the PGA Tour, and twenty PGA club or teaching professionals. The PGA of America also issue invitations to players outside of these criteria, which is generally seen to include the top-100 in the world rankings.
Criteria This list details the qualification criteria for the 2022 PGA Championship and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified is indicated in parentheses.
1. All past winners of the PGA Championship (list excludes those not expected to play)
Rich Beem Keegan Bradley (10) John Daly Jason Day Jason Dufner Pádraig Harrington (8) Martin Kaymer Brooks Koepka (3,8,10,11,12) Rory McIlroy (5,10,11,12) Shaun Micheel Collin Morikawa (4,8,10,11,12) Justin Thomas (5,10,11,12) Tiger Woods (2) Yang Yong-eun
Davis Love III, Phil Mickelson (8,10), Vijay Singh, and Jimmy Walker did not play.
2. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2018–2022)
Dustin Johnson (10,11) Hideki Matsuyama (10,12) Patrick Reed (10) Scottie Scheffler (8,10,11,12)
3. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2017–2021)
Jon Rahm (8,10,11,12) Gary Woodland (10)
Bryson DeChambeau (10,11) did not play.
4. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2016–2021)
Shane Lowry (8,10,11) Francesco Molinari Jordan Spieth (10,11,12) Henrik Stenson
5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2019–2022)
Cameron Smith (10,12)
6. Winner of the 2020 Olympic Games
Xander Schauffele (10,11,12)
7. Current Senior PGA Champion
Alex Čejka
8. The leading 15 players, and those tying for 15th place, in the 2021 PGA Championship
Abraham Ancer (10,12) Tony Finau (10,11,12) Rickie Fowler Harry Higgs Louis Oosthuizen (10) Justin Rose Kevin Streelman Will Zalatoris (10)
Paul Casey (10,11) did not play.
9. The leading 20 players in the 2022 PGA Professional Championship
Alex Beach Brandon Bingaman Michael Block Matt Borchert Tyler Collet Paul Dickinson Tim Feenstra Austin Hurt Colin Inglis Nic Ishee Jared Jones Sean McCarty Kyle Mendoza Jesse Mueller Dylan Newman Zac Oakley Casey Pyne Ryan Vermeer Shawn Warren Wyatt Worthington II
10. Top 70 from special money list on the PGA Tour from the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson to the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship
Daniel Berger (11) Sam Burns (12) Patrick Cantlay (11,12) Cameron Champ (12) Corey Conners Cameron Davis (12) Matt Fitzpatrick (11) Lucas Glover (12) Talor Gooch (12) Branden Grace Adam Hadwin Brian Harman Tyrrell Hatton (11) Russell Henley Lucas Herbert (12) Garrick Higgo (12) Tom Hoge (12) Max Homa (12) Billy Horschel Viktor Hovland (11,12) Mackenzie Hughes Matt Jones Kim Si-woo Kevin Kisner (12) Jason Kokrak (12) Anirban Lahiri Lee Kyoung-hoon (12) Marc Leishman Luke List (12) Maverick McNealy Troy Merritt Keith Mitchell Sebastián Muñoz Kevin Na Joaquín Niemann (12) Alex Norén Séamus Power (12) Adam Scott J. J. Spaun (12) Sepp Straka (12) Hudson Swafford (12) Cameron Tringale Erik van Rooyen (12) Harold Varner III Jhonattan Vegas Aaron Wise Cameron Young
Harris English (11,12) and Im Sung-jae (12) did not play.
11. Playing members of the 2021 Ryder Cup teams, who are ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 9, 2022
Tommy Fleetwood Sergio García Ian Poulter Lee Westwood Bernd Wiesberger
12. Winners of official tournaments on the PGA Tour from the 2021 PGA Championship until the start of the championship
Ryan Brehm Chad Ramey
13. PGA of America invitees
Adri Arnaus Oliver Bekker Christiaan Bezuidenhout Richard Bland Dean Burmester Laurie Canter Stewart Cink Ryan Fox Justin Harding Nicolai Højgaard Sam Horsfield Rikuya Hoshino Yuki Inamori Zach Johnson Sadom Kaewkanjana Takumi Kanaya Kim Bi-o Chan Kim Tom Kim Ryosuke Kinoshita Chris Kirk Jinichiro Kozuma Pablo Larrazábal Min Woo Lee Robert MacIntyre Shaun Norris Carlos Ortiz Ryan Palmer Mito Pereira Thomas Pieters Webb Simpson Daniel van Tonder Bubba Watson
Kazuki Higa was invited but did not play.
14. If necessary, the field is completed by players in order of PGA Championship points earned (per 10)
Lanto Griffin Matt Kuchar Patton Kizzire Matthew Wolff Davis Riley
Alternates who gained entry (per category 14): Brendan Steele (78) Beau Hossler (79) Kramer Hickok (80) Charl Schwartzel (81) Adam Schenk (84) Russell Knox (85) Scott Stallings (86) Joel Dahmen (87) Denny McCarthy (89)
Round summaries First round Thursday, May 19, 2022
Two-time champion Rory McIlroy shot 65 (−5), his lowest round in his PGA Championship career, to take a one-shot lead over Tom Hoge and Will Zalatoris. Beginning his round on the 10th hole, McIlroy birdied four holes in a row on his first nine and did not make a bogey until the sixth hole, his 15th. He finished the round by making an 18-foot putt for birdie on the ninth, taking the first-round lead at a major championship for the first time since the 2014 Open Championship and first after any round since winning the 2014 PGA Championship.
Hoge made only one bogey to go with five birdies, while Zalatoris birdied three of his first four holes to equal Hoge's four-under 66. 2017 champion Justin Thomas was even-par making the turn after bogeys on holes eight and nine before making three birdies on the back-nine to shoot 67 (−3), the lowest score in the afternoon.
World No. 1 and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler eagled the par-5 fifth hole to go two-under on his round but made four bogeys on the back-nine to finish with a one-over 71. Tiger Woods was two-under through five holes before making seven bogeys the rest of his round, finishing at four-over 74.
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Rory McIlroy 65 −5T2 Tom Hoge 66 −4 Will ZalatorisT4 Abraham Ancer 67 −3 Matt Kuchar Justin ThomasT7 Matt Fitzpatrick 68 −2 Lucas Herbert Chris Kirk Kevin Na Joaquín Niemann Mito Pereira Davis Riley Xander Schauffele Cameron Smith
Second round Friday, May 20, 2022
Will Zalatoris shot a bogey-free round of 65 (−5) to take a one-shot lead over Mito Pereira at nine-under. Zalatoris birdied three holes in a row on his back-nine to get to eight-under for the tournament. At the par-4 17th hole, after his drive went into the trees to the right of the fairway, Zalatoris hit his approach to seven feet and made the putt for sole possession of the 36-hole lead.
Pereira, playing in just his second major championship and first PGA Championship, was two-under on his round at the turn before making four birdies on his second nine. He had a six-foot birdie putt on the ninth (his 18th) to shoot 63 but missed, settling for a six-under 64 to finish at eight-under.
Playing in the more difficult morning conditions, Justin Thomas birdied the ninth (also his 18th) for a second consecutive round of 67 (−3). At six-under for the tournament, he held the lead as he finished his round before being passed by Zalatoris and Pereira in the afternoon.
Bubba Watson made nine birdies in a tournament-record round of 63 (−7), narrowly missing a 22-foot putt on the 18th for the first 62 in PGA Championship history. He was the third player to shoot 63 in a major at Southern Hills, along with Raymond Floyd in 1982 and Tiger Woods in 2007. He finished at five-under and in fourth place.
Overnight leader Rory McIlroy made two bogeys on the front-nine and didn't make a birdie until the 12th, settling for a one-over 71 to fall back to a tie for fifth place at four-under. Woods, in the same group with McIlroy, double-bogeyed the 11th hole after hitting a chip shot over the green into a bunker to fall to five-over and outside the cutline, but he rebounded with birdies at the 13th and 16th to finish at three-over and make the cut by two shots.
The 36-hole cut came at 144 (+4) and better; 79 players advanced to the weekend. Notables to miss the cut included World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, the reigning Masters champion, and two-time major champion Dustin Johnson.
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Will Zalatoris 66-65=131 −92 Mito Pereira 68-64=132 −83 Justin Thomas 67-67=134 −64 Bubba Watson 72-63=135 −5T5 Abraham Ancer 67-69=136 −4 Rory McIlroy 65-71=136 Davis Riley 68-68=136T8 Stewart Cink 69-68=137 −3 Matt Fitzpatrick 68-69=137T10 Sam Burns 71-67=138 −2 Tyrrell Hatton 70-68=138 Chris Kirk 68-70=138 Matt Kuchar 67-71=138 Cameron Smith 68-70=138 Gary Woodland 70-68=138 Cameron Young 71-67=138
Third round Saturday, May 21, 2022
Mito Pereira, in his PGA Championship debut, shot a one-under 69 to take a three-shot lead into the final round. Beginning the round a shot behind Will Zalatoris, Pereira birdied two of his first five holes and opened up as much as a four-shot lead on the front-nine before three consecutive bogeys from holes 8 to 10.
He rebounded with a 17-foot birdie putt on the par-5 13th, then hit his approach on the par-3 14th to six feet for another birdie. He finished the round by making a 27-foot putt for birdie on the 18th green to finish at nine-under for the tournament. He became the first player to lead after 54 holes in his tournament debut since John Daly in 1991.
Zalatoris, the overnight leader, bogeyed four holes on his front-nine, including a three-putt on the par-3 sixth hole. He made his first birdie on the round on the 13th, holing a 35-foot putt. After a bogey on the 16th when he could not advance his ball out of the right rough off the tee, he hit his second on the par-4 17th inside four feet for a birdie to climb back to six-under for the tournament, three shots back of Pereira.