PGA Championship 2022 - Does Tiger Woods have any hope at the PGA Championship? If not, who does?

TULSA, Okla. — The PGA Championship returns to Southern Hills Country Club for the first time since 2007, when Tiger Woods won his 13th major championship and fourth Wanamaker Trophy.

Woods will be back here this week trying to win his 16th major championship and 83rd PGA Tour victory, which would be the most in history.

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Defending champion Phil Mickelson isn't here, as his exile from professional golf continues after his controversial comments about the PGA Tour and financiers of a Saudi Arabian-backed breakaway circuit became public. It will be just the fourth PGA Championship without the defending champion in the field. Woods was the last one; he didn't defend his title in 2008 while recovering from knee surgery.

While Woods isn't expected to be a contender in just his second start after a serious car accident in February 2021, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, who will be trying to complete the career Grand Slam, are among the favorites.

Who can win in the hot and blustery conditions at Southern Hills? Here's a look at each of the players in the field, divided into groups from the legitimate contenders to the PGA club professionals:

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They're many of golf's biggest young stars, who have the game, guts and nerves to handle four pressure-packed rounds at a major championship.

Scottie Scheffler Scheffler would reach rare air with his fifth PGA Tour victory. In the past 30 years, according to research by ESPN Stats & Information, only three players have won five tour events in a stretch of 10 starts or fewer: