Tiger Woods will play the first two rounds of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black in two weeks alongside Brooks Koepka and Francesco Molinari, two of the golfers he defeated to win the Masters. They will compose a reigning champions threesome, a tradition that will accompany the event's move from August to May.
"We did talk about that and we are continuing our process of having the last three major champions paired together," Kerry Haigh, the PGA's chief championships officer, said on a conference call Tuesday morning. He also said that tournament officials are "very excited" about the condition of the Black Course and that the layout will be pretty much like the one seen there for the 2009 U.S. Open.
For years, the PGA Championship was the last of the majors to be held. So, the season's three previous major winners were placed in the same group for the first two rounds. With the move to May this year, there is only one reigning major champion in 2019 _ Woods, who earned his fifth green jacket, having overtaken Molinari and held off Koepka, among others.
