Turner Sports Tees Off 100th PGA Championship Thursday, Aug. 9, with Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, Phil Mickelson & Defending Champion Justin Thomas in Action

TNT’s Exclusive Coverage on Thursday – Starting at 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT – Will Include 2018 Major Winners

Patrick Reed, Brooks Koepka & Francesco Molinari, Plus Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm & Justin Rose

PGA Championship LIVE’s Thursday Morning Featured Groups to Include Four-Time Winner Tiger Woods,

Defending Champion Justin Thomas, Past Winners Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy & Keegan Bradley

TNT’s comprehensive coverage of the 100th PGA Championship, held Thursday-Sunday, August 9-12, at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, will feature a field full of highly-anticipated golfers in action when the network’s telecast starts Thursday, August 9, at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT).

Thursday’s opening round coverage – televised exclusively on TNT – will include the pairing of 2018 Major winners Patrick Reed, Brooks Koepka and Francesco Molinari teeing off at 2:15 p.m. ET (1:15 p.m. CT), as well as Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm and Justin Rose at 2:37 p.m. (1:37 p.m. CT).  

PGA Championship LIVE’s Featured Groups coverage on Thursday – available via the PGA Championship’s official digital platforms managed by Turner Sports – will be highlighted by four-time champion Tiger Woods back in action at the PGA Championship for the first time since 2015. Woods will be joined by 2017 defending champion Justin Thomas and 2014 winner Rory McIlroy for a 9:23 a.m. ET (8:23 a.m. CT) pairing. Past champions Phil Mickelson, Keegan Bradley and Jason Day will tee off all platforms – PGA.com, PGA Championship.com and the PGA Championship App – at 9:01 a.m. ET (8:01 a.m. CT).

The pairings of Reed, Koepka and Molinari, and Spieth, Rahm and Rose, will be PGA Championship LIVE’s afternoon Featured Groups on Thursday. Friday’s Featured Groups pairings will be released later in the week.

Turner Sports will present multiplatform coverage of this year’s historic 100th PGA Championship with more than 100 hours of live action across TNT, the PGA Championship suite of digital products and Bleacher Report Live, Turner’s new premium live streaming service. TNT’s live coverage from Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis will include at least six hours on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 9-10, from 2-8 p.m. ET (1-7 p.m. CT), along with third and fourth round play on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 11-12, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (10 a.m.-1 p.m.).

This marks the 28th consecutive year of Turner Sports' coverage of the PGA Championship and TNT's 20th consecutive year televising the event. TNT commentators will include Sports Emmy Award winner Ernie Johnson and fellow host Brian Anderson, analysts Ian Baker-Finch and Billy Kratzert, with Amanda Balionis providing pre- and post-round interviews. Former Masters Champion Trevor Immelman will return as an on-course analyst.

The PGA Championship’s official digital platforms will offer extensive coverage of the event including live streaming via PGA Championship LIVE. The Sports Emmy Award-winning video experience will showcase the event’s top players via its Featured Group channels. Each day, four marquee pairings will be selected for complete round coverage with two groups in the morning followed by two additional pairings in the afternoon. New for this year, coverage will commence as players prep for their round on the driving range and putting green.

Additionally, PGA Championship LIVE – anchored by Anderson and Brian Katrek, alongside analysts Kratzert and Michael Breed – will offer dedicated live Featured Hole video coverage of Bellerive’s three-hole finishing stretch (16, 17 and 18).

Fans can enjoy live streaming coverage of the event on PGA.com and the PGA Championship app, on the Watch TNT app and on participating TV provider platforms and apps. TNT’s coverage will require viewers to log in with their user name and password given to them by their TV service provider.

Both daily Featured Groups and the three Featured Holes will also be available for free via B/R Live, Turner’s new premium sports OTT product for Android, iOS, Roku, Amazon Fire TV and mobile web.

For full Turner Sports coverage details on this year’s PGA Championship, please visit: https://bit.ly/2LYxsXE