We knew Quail Hollow's vaunted "Green Mile" would claim some victims at this week's PGA Championship, but what happened Thursday morning was still downright shocking. The par-4 16th, the first of the difficult three-hole stretch brought all three of the World's top-three ranked players to their knees.

It was his second time at the PGA Professional Championship, the first experience a decade ago when he was just starting to get his life back in order. That wasn’t easy on its own. And then a year into sobriety, Taylor lost his grandfather to cancer. Ten days later, his father died. He had diabetes from a young age and wasn’t in the best shape.

The second major of the year on the PGA Tour gets started on Thursday, May 15 when golfers convene at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. for the start of the 2025 PGA Championship.

The hands-down, number-one best thing about being a kid is that you genuinely don’t know any better. There’s a simple innocence (and sometimes brutal honesty) in being young and carefree, and many adults long for those days as they grow older and more aware of the barriers,

CBS Sports is offering live coverage of the 2025 PGA Championship from Thursday through Sunday with the tournament airing Saturday and Sunday afternoon across CBS, Paramount+ , CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports app. Let's take a look at how you can follow first-round action on your screens.

Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele were supposed to be the marquis group to watch on Thursday at the PGA Championship. It didn’t look like it in Round 1 — at least on the 16th hole at Quail Hollow.