PGA Championship 2015 tee times: Pairings and start time for Friday's round

Tiger Woods may have just 18 holes left in his PGA Tour season. Woods is miles from qualifying for the FedExCup and is unlikely to play next week's Wyndham Championship in Greensboro. That means the PGA Championship is likely his last official PGA Tour start of the season, and the way things keep going at the majors, making the weekend seems like a long shot.

Woods will have to sit around and wait on Friday before he tees it up with Keegan Bradley and Martin Kaymer. They're due on the No. 1 tee at 2:30 p.m. ET (1:30 local in Wisconsin). Tiger will start the day at 3-over and almost certainly on the wrong side of the cut line. The problem is he may have squandered his best chance at an under-par round on Thursday, when the morning conditions were likely the easiest they will be all week. Matt Kuchar said it was the easiest he'd seen the course -- the wind was completely down and it was still softer from rains earlier in the week and the morning dew. That was all gone by the afternoon, when things firmed up and the wind started brutalizing the late tee times.

Tiger could do nothing with the easy scoring conditions while the young talent around him set the pace at six, seven, eight and nine shots ahead. Now he may have to deal with those tougher afternoon conditions on Friday while needing to grind and post a mid-60s round just to get 36 more holes. He's T86 and if scoring conditions are favorable in the morning, that's going to go higher before he even makes a shot.

The headline tee time of the tournament will be out in the early morning wave, hoping to get a more benign course and make a run at 18-hole leader Dustin Johnson. Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Zach Johnson are scheduled to tee off at 9:05 a.m. ET. All the hype surrounded this PGA pairing of the top two players in the world, but it started with a bit of a thud as they struggled to stay at even-par in the tougher conditions. Both, however, demonstrated their brilliance by getting into the house in the red after Spieth played with some of his C+ form and Rory played for the first time in 53 days. Now they have a chance to get out early and post a low number before DJ even gets to the first tee.

Johnson will be one group ahead of Tiger, going with Rickie Fowler and Jason Day at 2:20 p.m. ET. All three of those post-Tiger era players are under par and in contention. If you want to actually watch someone play good golf and with a shot to win, follow these guys and not the guy behind them. Here's the full tee sheet for Friday's second round:

Morning wave off No. 1:

Morning wave off No. 10:

Afternoon wave off No. 1:

Afternoon wave off No. 10:

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