PGA Championship Has First Casualty as PGA Tour Pro Withdraws
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Entering the second round of the 2025 PGA Championship, all players remained healthy and the field remained in tact.
That changed midway through the second round of the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, as Patton Kizzire withdrew from the tournament.
PGA Tour communications announced he pulled out of the event because of an unknown injury.
Patton Kizzire WD during round two of the PGA Championship due to injury. — PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) May 16, 2025
The former Auburn Tiger signed for a 3-over 74 Thursday with a scorecard that included seven bogeys and four birdies. He had a big hill to climb on Friday, and his day started terribly.
Kizzire was 6-over through the first six holes of the day, but would choose to pull out after making a par on 10.
He let Matt McCarty and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen know he would bow out after he shook their hands on the 10th green.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - MAY 16: Bryson DeChambeau of the United States and his caddie Greg Bodine ook over a putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship at Quail...
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - MAY 16: Bryson DeChambeau of the United States and his caddie Greg Bodine ook over a putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 16, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. More
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Kizzire struggled off the tee (-0.331 in SG off the tee), approaching the green (-0.920 SG), from tee to green (-1.037) and on the greens (-2.428). The only stat area where he did not lose strokes was around the green, where he picked up +0.364 shots.
This withdrawal is not Kizzire's first in 2025. He also did it at the Valspar Championship. The three-time PGA Tour winner threw a tantrum at the Copperhead course as Kizzire punted his putter like a football.
The following week, he missed the cut and was T65 at the Valero Texas Open, followed by missed cuts at Augusta National and the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
He started the year with a T40 at the Sentry in Hawaii, but went downhill from there. Kizzire missed the next six cuts and has nine on the season overall, with just one Top 25 that came last week at the Myrtle Beach Classic with a T20.
The 141st player in the world has made just $172,509 on the season, and if his play does not improve, he will likely miss the playoffs, too.
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