Brooks Koepka leads a loaded field into Valhalla Golf Club for the First Round of the 106th PGA Championship on Thursday.
Louisville, Kentucky plays host to the 106th PGA Championship this week at Valhalla Golf Club as Thursday’s First Round tees off with Brooks Koepka looking to repeat as champion for the second time in seven years. Koepka won this event in 2018 and 2019 and again last year at Oak Hill where he beat Viktor Hovland and current World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler by two strokes to claim his third PGA Championship and the fifth major of his career. In 2014, Rory McIlroy got his second PGA Championship here at Valhalla on his way to claiming his third PGA Player of the Year award.
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McIlroy has not won a major since his win at this event in 2014, but comes into this week red hot having won twice in the last three weeks ,claiming the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in a playoff in late-April before running away from the field last week at the Wells Fargo Championship, winning by five strokes. The 35-year-old Northern Ireland native has 40 career professional victories and comes into this week ranked second in the Official World Golf Rankings.
Also in the field this week are former champions Tiger Woods, Collin Morikawa, Jason Day, Keegan Bradley and two-time winner and Louisville native Justin Thomas.
Valhalla Golf Club is a 7,609-yard Par 71 course designed by Jack Nicklaus that opened in 1986 that has four times played host to this event, as well as a pair of Senior PGA Championships and the 2008 Ryder Cup.
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