The 2026 PGA Championship Field Is Set, and the Last Two Spots Made Aronimink Better

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The 2026 PGA Championship field is finally complete, and the last two additions actually made the week more interesting instead of just tidier.

The PGA Championship’s updated field list, checked on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, now includes Sepp Straka and Ryan Fox after each won on Sunday, May 10. Straka grabbed the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, while Fox won the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic. Those were the two spots the PGA of America had intentionally held open in its original May 5 field announcement for Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

This piece is based on the official PGA Championship field page and the PGA Tour results pages for both May 10 winners, all checked on May 12. No fake “I was on site watching range balls fly differently” nonsense.

What Changed in the Field

The original field announcement said the championship had 154 players listed with two places reserved for the winners of:

• the Truist Championship
• the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic

Those spots now belong to:

• Sepp Straka, who won the Truist Championship at 16-under
• Ryan Fox, who won the Myrtle Beach Classic at 15-under

That means the field is no longer theoretical. It is set.

The updated PGA Championship list also reflects the earlier Phil Mickelson withdrawal we already covered in our May 6 update on Mickelson and Max Homa. With Mickelson out, Max Homa is now safely in the field, and Sudarshan Yellamaraju sits as the first alternate.

Straka Is Not Just Filling Space

This is the more important of the two adds.

Straka is entering Aronimink off a win in a Signature Event, which means he is not walking in as a cute qualifier story. He is showing up hot, with a real trophy from a loaded week, and with one more reminder that the season still refuses to belong entirely to one or two people.

That point has mattered all spring. We argued a couple weeks ago that the best thing about the 2026 PGA Tour season is that nobody fully owns it yet, and Straka winning at Quail Hollow only makes that case stronger. Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas, Cameron Young, Matt Fitzpatrick, and now Straka all keep taking turns making the top of the year look annoyingly unsettled.

That is good for the PGA Championship.

Majors are better when the “secondary contender” tier stops feeling secondary.

Ryan Fox Gives the Field a Proper Wild-Card Layer

Fox is the other kind of useful add.

He is not arriving with the same ceiling chatter as the biggest names, but winning your way in the week before a major is still one of golf’s cleanest forms of credibility. You do not need a branding package when you just beat everyone you were scheduled against on Sunday.

Fox also adds more international depth to a field that already looked strong but now looks less top-heavy and slightly more chaotic in a good way. The PGA Championship has long sold itself as the deepest field in men’s golf, and adding a current-event winner instead of some cold alternate helps that argument.

No, that does not make Fox a favorite.

It does make him more interesting than one more random name sliding in because somebody else limped out.

Aronimink Still Has the Big Names, Obviously

The updated field still includes the obvious headliners:

• Rory McIlroy
• Scottie Scheffler
• Xander Schauffele
• Jon Rahm
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Jordan Spieth
• Justin Thomas

So this is not a “wow, look at the sleepers” story pretending the stars disappeared.

It is a “the stars are here, and the final edges of the field got sharper too” story.

That matters in a week where Spieth is still chasing the career Grand Slam, Rory is coming off another Masters title, and Scottie arrives as the defending PGA champion. If you want the Spieth-specific backdrop, his recent gear overhaul before major week still feels like one of the more revealing side stories heading into Aronimink.

Why the Last Two Spots Matter More Than They Usually Do

A lot of major-field updates are just housekeeping.

This one was not.

Adding Straka and Fox means the championship got:

• one current Signature Event winner
• one current opposite-field winner
• two players arriving with fresh Sunday confidence

That is a better version of “last two in” than most majors get.

And it makes Aronimink feel slightly less like a stage waiting for the same two or three stars and slightly more like a proper major where in-form players from different lanes are all showing up at once.

That is what you want.

Bottom Line

The 2026 PGA Championship field at Aronimink is now set, and the final two places went to Sepp Straka and Ryan Fox after wins on May 10, 2026.

That is more than an admin update. Straka brings genuine top-tier momentum, Fox brings a live underdog angle, and the championship looks a little deeper and a little less predictable because of both of them.

For the rest of the major-week setup, read why Rory at Quail Hollow felt dangerous, the Mickelson withdrawal fallout, and our broader take on why this PGA Tour season still has no single owner.