The 108th PGA Championship takes place at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania from May 14 to 17, 2026, with featured-group coverage beginning around 10:00 EDT (UTC-4) and final-round leaders teeing off at approximately 14:00 EDT on Sunday.
The PGA Championship has never had the mystique of the Masters, the brutality of the U.S. Open, or the romance of The Open. What it has is the strongest field in golf, a no-nonsense setup, and a habit of producing champions who earned it through sheer competence rather than narrative destiny. This is the workman’s major, the one where the best player across four days wins, and the course does not pretend to be anything other than a serious examination of professional golf.
Aronimink Golf Club is a name that casual fans may not recognize, but the course has a pedigree that runs deep into American golf history. Donald Ross designed the original layout in 1928, and he reportedly considered it among his finest works. Ross courses are defined by their greens, and Aronimink’s putting surfaces are a masterclass in subtle punishment. They are crowned, tilted, and contoured in ways that reject anything but precisely placed approach shots. Miss the correct tier and a fifteen-foot birdie putt becomes a forty-foot par saver. The course plays to par 70 at 7,267 yards, which does not sound long by modern standards, but the Ross greens make distance irrelevant if the irons are not sharp. Ron Prichard’s 2003 restoration returned the bunkering patterns to Ross’s original intent, stripping away decades of softening revisions.
Gary Player won the PGA Championship here in 1962, defeating Bob Goalby in a playoff to claim his second major title. The course returned to national television at the 2018 BMW Championship, when the best players on the PGA Tour praised the layout’s conditioning and its ability to separate the precise from the powerful. For 2026, Aronimink has been further refined to test the modern professional game, but the fundamental challenge remains the same: if your iron play is not elite, the greens will find you out.
The PGA Championship’s honor roll includes Brooks Koepka (2018, 2019, 2023), Justin Thomas (2017, 2022), and Xander Schauffele (2024). The 2022 edition produced one of the great final-round comebacks when Thomas rallied from seven shots behind on Sunday at Southern Hills to force a playoff against Will Zalatoris and won on the third extra hole. In 2023, Koepka returned from injury and LIV Golf exile to win at Oak Hill, reminding everyone that he saves his best for the biggest weeks.
For European viewers, the EDT timezone places Sunday afternoon coverage in late evening. When the final group tees off around 14:00 EDT, it is 19:00 in London, 20:00 in Paris and Berlin, and 21:00 in Istanbul. The closing holes play out between 22:00 and midnight CET, a late but manageable watch for continental fans. For viewers in Japan, 14:00 EDT is 03:00 Monday morning in Tokyo, the same difficult slot as the Masters. Australian fans face a 04:00 AEST start. For US viewers in the Central and Mountain time zones, the 14:00 EDT start translates to 13:00 CDT and 12:00 MDT, a Sunday afternoon that fits naturally around family and food.
Scottie Scheffler enters as the favorite, with his iron play ideally suited to Ross greens. Collin Morikawa, whose approach accuracy is the best on tour, could find Aronimink’s demand for precision a perfect fit. The PGA Championship does not ask for magic. It asks for excellence, day after day, shot after shot.
For more on the venue, see our Aronimink Golf Club guide. To check the current local time at the course, see Philadelphia time or browse all United States time zones.