Round 3 of PGA Championship delayed due to 'dangerous weather'

Round 3 of the PGA Championships on Saturday have been delayed due to “dangerous weather in the area,” the tournament’s official X account posted. “Round 3 starting times will be a split tee off of #1 & #10 tees in groups of 3 from 11:43 AM – 1:55 PM,” the update read.

They will post revised starting times shortly. Jhonattan Vegas currently tops the leaderboard at -8 after Round 2.

Due to dangerous weather in the area, Round 3 starting times will be a split tee off of #1 & #10 tees in groups of 3 from 11:43 AM – 1:55 PM.

Revised starting times will be published shortly.

— PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 17, 2025

ESPN’s Michael Eaves was on site 107th PGA Championship from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. He provided the latest details, including a change in the tournament’s pairing system caused by inclement weather.

“We’ve had multiple weather delays so far this morning with lightning and severe weather threats in the area, and as a result, we’ve got a whole new game plan,” Eaves said to begin ESPN’s coverage of Round 3. “Because the weather has been such a player so far this week, we had a bunch of rain early in the week, and now we’ve had some here on Saturday morning. It’s about 73 degrees right now, still a 40% chance of rain, but it’s as we get into to the afternoon, it should be much better conditions. But the starting times were supposed to been shortly after 8am this morning, they’ve been pushed back several hours.

“In fact, instead of playing twosomes today, going off number one, we’re going to play threesomes with groups going off both the first and 10th tees. Tee time starts at 11:43 a.m., and some players impacted by that for sure.”

One of those players include Rory McElroy (+1), who won the Master’s earlier this year, as he’ll have to tee-off almost an hour earlier than originally anticipated. Others across the leaderboard are also impacted by the delays as well.

Eaves was joined by two-time US Open champion Andy North at the PGA Championship. He said that the change in pairings was a decision those calling the shots had to make given the circumstances.

“They weren’t going to get the whole field in playing twos,” North explained. “And they’ve got to spend a little bit of time getting the golf course ready. Just enough rain that it will impact play a little bit. But the players who were already here early this morning, eating breakfast, getting ready to warm up — now they don’t play until 1:30 in the afternoon because they split the field. The worst players end up playing late on the wrong tee, so Rory [McElroy] is not happy. He’s already back at the house of his feet up, so it makes it a longer day for some of the guys but it is what it is.”