Tiger Woods was confirmed out for next week’s PGA Championship following right ankle surgery while injured Jordan Spieth, chasing a career Grand Slam, was on the entry list released Wednesday.
The field of 156 for next week’s showdown at Oak Hill also includes 18 players from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League, among them Masters runner-ups and multiple major winners Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka.
There are a total of seven Australians in the field: Cameron Davis, Jason Day, Adam Scott, Cameron Smith, Min Woo Lee, Lucas Herbert and qualifier David Micheluzzi.
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Woods, a 15-time major champion and a four-time PGA Championship winner, underwent his latest operation last month after withdrawing in the third round of the Masters.
There is no timetable for the 47-year-old star’s return.
The same is true for Spieth, a three-time major winner who needs the PGA Championship to join Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen with at least one victory at each major.
Spieth is questionable for the showdown at Oak Hill with a left wrist injury that made him skip his hometown PGA event this week in Dallas.
“I’m focused on healing as quickly as possible and will have to evaluate my recovery week to week,” 10th-ranked Spieth said, adding that doctors said his wrist needs rest and limited movement.
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Oak Hill, host of six prior majors as well as the 1995 Ryder Cup, will serve as a second major showcase this year for top PGA Tour players facing rivals from the upstart LIV series.
Spain’s Jon Rahm won last month at Augusta National with Mickelson, a six-time major winner, and Koepka, a four-time major winner sharing second and another LIV standout, 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed, sharing fourth.
The breakaway circuit lured top talent from the PGA Tour, which banned LIV players from its events, although the majors allow LIV and PGA players to compete, turning them into the only places for bragging rights battles between the rivals in golf’s civil war.
Other LIV players at Oak Hill next week will include major winners Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer and Australia’s Cam Smith, the reigning British Open champion.
A final vacant spot in the PGA Championship field is reserved for this week’s PGA Byron Nelson tournament winner.
2023 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD (Australians in bold, LIV Golf players in italics)
Alker, Steven
Ancer, Abraham
Arnaus, Adri
Beach, Alex
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
Block, Michael
Bradley, Keegan
Buckley, Hayden
Burmester, Dean
Burns, Sam
Cahill, Matt
Cantlay, Patrick
Casey, Paul
Clark, Wyndham
Conners, Corey
Cordes, Anthony
Dahmen, Joel
Daly, John
Davis, Cam
Day, Jason
DeChambeau, Bryson
Detry, Thomas
Donald, Luke
Droemer, Jesse
Dufner, Jason
Echavarria, Nico
English, Harris
Finau, Tony
Fitzpatrick, Matthew
Fleetwood, Tommy
Fowler, Rickie
Fox, Ryan
French, Chris
Gooch, Talor
Griffin, Ben
Grillo, Emiliano
Grove, Russell
Hadwin, Adam
Hardy, Nick
Harman, Brian
Harrington, Padraig
Hatton, Tyrrell
Henley, Russell
Herbert, Lucas
Higa, Kazuki
Hoge, Tom
Hojgaard, Nicolai
Hojgaard, Rasmus
Holmes, Steve
Homa, Max
Horschel, Billy
Hoshino, Rikuya
Hossler, Beau
Hovland, Viktor
Hubbard, Mark
Hughes, Mackenzie
Im, Sungjae
Inglis, Colin
Johnson, Dustin
Johnson, Zach
Kaewkanjana, Sadom
Kaymer, Martin
Kern, Ben
Killeen, JJ
Kim, Si Woo
Kim, Sihwan
Kim, Tom
Kirk, Chris
Kisner, Kevin
Kitayama, Kurt
Koch, Greg
Koepka, Brooks
Kuchar, Matt
Lahiri, Anirban
Larrazabal, Pablo
Lawrence, Thriston
Lee, K.H.
Lee, Min Woo
Love III, Davis
Lowry, Shane
MacIntyre, Robert
Matsuyama, Hideki
McCarthy, Denny
McIlroy, Rory
McNealy, Maverick
Meronk, Adrian
Micheel, Shaun
Micheluzzi, David
Mickelson, Phil
Mitchell, Keith
Molinari, Francesco
Montgomery, Taylor
Moore, Taylor
Morikawa, Collin
Mullinax, Trey
NeSmith, Matthew
Niemann, Joaquín
Noren, Alex
Olesen, Thorbjorn
Otaegui, Adrián
Paul, Yannik
Pendrith, Taylor
Pereira, Mito
Perez, Victor
Pieters, Thomas
Pigman, Kenny
Poston, J.T.
Power, Seamus
Putnam, Andrew
Rahm, Jon
Reavie, Chez
Reed, Patrick
Reynolds, Gabe
Riley, Davis
Rodgers, Patrick
Rose, Justin
Ryder, Sam
Sanger, Chris
Schauffele, Xander
Scheffler, Scottie
Schenk, Adam
Scott, Adam
Shattuck, Braden
Shinkwin, Callum
Simpson, Webb
Singh, Vijay
Smith, Cameron
Smith, Jordan
Somers, John
Spaun, J.J.
Speight, Josh
Spieth, Jordan
Stallings, Scott
Steele, Brendan
Straka, Sepp
Strydom, Ockie
Suh, Justin
Svensson, Adam
Taylor, Ben
Taylor, Nick
Theegala, Sahith
Thomas, Justin
Thompson, Davis
Todd, Brendon
Varner III, Harold
Walker, Jimmy
Wallace, Matt
Wells, Jeremy
Willett, Danny
Wise, Aaron
Woodland, Gary
Worthington II, Wyatt
Wu, Brandon
Yang, Y.E.
Young, Cameron
