After Round 1 of the PGA Championship we have a seven way tie at the top of the table. Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaeger, Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune, Martin Kaymer, Scottie Scheffler and Alex Smalley all had solid rounds and carded -3. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone can break away from the group during Round 2.

Lee and Jimmy have an early lead on our LMS leaderboard but with such a big group all on -3, the leaderboard could dramatically change across Round 2.

At the other end of the table, Ste probably won’t be challenging for the prize pot as he’s currently on +17 after picking Rory McIlroy (+4), Bryson DeChambeau (+6) and Michael Thorbjornsen (+7).

There were a few golfers who withdrew or didn’t make it off the reserve list, thankfully for most of the entries had withdrawl replacement and their new golfers can be found below

With there only being two withdrawals, the prize pot will remain at £14,300, which is split as follows:

1st – £10,725

2nd – £2,850

3rd – £725

Top 10

After Round 1, the top 10 is as follows:

1st – Lee James 8 -8 (-3,-3,-2)

1st – Jim Cheung 7 -8 (-3,-3,-2)

3rd – David Langley 4 -7 (-3,-3,-1)

3rd – Ben Carroll -7 (-3,-3,-1)

3rd – Dan Geraghty 2 -7 (-3,-3,-1)

3rd – Ste Bower 2 -7 (-3,-3,-1)

3rd – Dan Byrne 1 -7 (-3,-3,-1)

3rd – Chris Furminger 3 -7 (-3,-3,-1)

9th – Sam chambers -6 (-3,-3,0)

9th – GARY BELLAIR 2 -6 (-3,-3,0)

9th – Matty Waring -6 (-3,-3,0)

9th – Owen Duggan -6 (-3,-3,0)

9th – Ben Warrington 2 -6 (-3,-3,0)

9th – Alex Paskins – 2 -6 (-3,-3,0)

The predicted cut currently stands at +2, so the entries with Rory McIlroy – 7 (265), Ludvig Åberg – 22 (215), Tommy Fleetwood – 20 (185), Tyrrell Hatton – 45 (125), Alex Fitzpatrick – 200 (114), Russell Henley – 50 (94), Matt McCarty – 150 (88), Bryson DeChambeau – 11 (80), Chris Gotterup – 45 (79) and Keegan Bradley – 100 (74) will all be sweating today as they are in danger of missing the cut.

Individual scores can be viewed on our website by clicking on the link below

https://lms.golf/2026-lms/2026-pga-championship/2026-pga-championship-last-man-standing-leaderboard/

Shot of the Day

Shot of the day goes to Jon Rahm who hit an eagle on hole 2.

https://x.com/i/status/2054954848932491614

We will send out an update after Round 2 with details on how many people have survived the cut.

Best of luck,

Cole & Alex