American golfer Patton Kizzire has withdrawn from the 2025 PGA Championship because of injury, it emerged on Friday morning.
The 39-year-old, who is ranked No 141 in the world, shot a three-over-par 74 during Thursday’s opening round.
He then endured a nightmare start to his second round, hitting four bogeys and a double bogey in his first 10 holes, before pulling out.
It is not the first time this year that Kizzire, who turned pro in 2008, has withdrawn from an event. Back in March, after a run of six missed cuts, he pulled out of the Valspar Championship.
The 39-year-old has played in 14 tour events this year and missed the cut nine times – including at the Masters at Augusta National.
He would have needed a miracle to make the weekend at the PGA Championship – after a difficult opening 28 holes at Quail Hollow, he was nine-over-par.
American Patton Kizzire has withdrawn from the 2025 PGA Championship because of injury
He had a nightmare start to round two, hitting four bogeys and a double bogey in 10 holes
Kizzire’s most recent victory on the PGA Tour came at the 2024 Procore Championship. He previously won the 2018 Sony Open in Hawaii and the 2017 OHL Classic at Mayakoba.
On Friday, the American was playing alongside compatriot Matt McCarty and Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.
Elsewhere during round two, Tyrrell Hatton’s frustrations boiled over once more as he squandered a promising start to the year’s second major.
Hatton was within a shot of the lead after going two-under-par across the first eight holes of his second round, only to then run up a damaging triple bogey on the 18th.
After pulling his tee shot on the difficult par four into the creek which runs the length of the hole, Hatton could be clearly heard shouting ‘piece of s***… c***’ at the face of his driver.
A day earlier, Hatton was heard berating himself in another X-rated tirade. At the par-three 17th on Thursday, he saw his tee shot land just off the right side of the green and his furious reaction was then caught on a hot mic.
‘Oh my God,’ Hatton said. ‘That is… the worst f***ing…’
