12:33 PM
Play to begin at 1.50pm BST
12:32 PM
And more frost…
12:28 PM
First-hand evidence of the unseasonal frost
12:26 PM
These are probably selling well in the official shop
12:21 PM
Frost announcement put back until 12.30pm BST
12:16 PM
Frosty scenes make players and fans wait
12:13 PM
Word from the organisers
12:08 PM
Frost delays start of play
The start of play has been delayed by the aforementioned frost covering the course at Oak Hill .
Action was scheduled to start at 12pm BST (7am local time), but tournament officials are now due to provide the next update imminently.
12:04 PM
Welcome to the second major of the year
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2023 US PGA Championship, which is being contested on the famous East Course of the Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York state.
Among the leading contenders to win the season’s second major and lift the huge Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday are world No 1 Jon Rahm, who won the Masters in April, world no 2 Scottie Scheffler, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, who is searching for that elusive fifth major, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele and, among the leading ‘LIV rebels’, Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka – who finished joint second at Augusta.
Last year’s winner Justin Thomas returns after his stunning come-from-behind triumph at Southern Hills, when he beat Will Zalatoris in a play-off, after a final-hole collapse by overnight leader Mito Pereira, who found water off the final tee on his way to a costly double-bogey.
It will also be a chance to see how the European and American Ryder Cup hopefuls are shaping up under the unforgiving glare of the majors spotlight, ahead of the next edition of the biennial dust-up, scheduled to start on September 30 at the Marco Simone club near Rome. Captains Luke Donald and Zach Johnson are sure to be keeping a close eye on their potential picks.
There will be no Tiger Woods, who continues to recover from ankle surgery, and there will be less wood in general, after a major cull of trees at Oak Hill as part of a course redevelopment that has seen the creation of a new hole – the par-three fifth, named “Little Poison”.
The weather forecast today is for a bright sunny day with a top temperature of 18 degrees, top winds at 9mph, but that follows overnight temperatures dropping to around freezing, with frost delaying the start of play.
Play was due to start at midday with the first ‘big-name’ groups going out after 1pm.