2026 PGA Championship: Ranking favorites, contenders, hopefuls and everyone else - ESPN

It has been only a month since Rory McIlroy won his second straight green jacket in the Masters on April 12.

But it feels like so much has changed in men's professional golf as the world's best players come together at Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia, which will host the 108th PGA Championship starting Thursday.

It will be the first time golfers from both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League will play together since Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund announced April 30 that it will not fund the latter circuit beyond this season.

There are 11 LIV Golf players in the field, including past major champions Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm. Two-time PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson is skipping his second straight major this season because of an ongoing family health matter.

World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler is the defending champion. He ran away with a five-stroke victory at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, last year.

Aronimink Golf Club last hosted a PGA Championship in 1962, when Gary Player won by one stroke.

The last golfer to qualify for the 156-man field was Brandt Snedeker, 45, who claimed his 10th PGA Tour victory in Sunday's ONEFlight Myrtle Beach Classic. Snedeker ended a winless drought of more than seven years.

Norway's Kristoffer Reitan, who picked up his first PGA Tour win in the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow on Sunday, had already qualified for the field.

Here's a look at this week's field for the second major of the season, from the clear favorites to the sleepers:

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Welcome, Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick, to the short list of favorites to lift a Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. While Scheffler and McIlroy have been at the top of the sport