2025 PGA Championship: PGA Tour Betting Odds
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 2 Rory McIlroy as the co-favourites on the golf odds.
One massive storyline this week will be whether Jordan Spieth (+5500) can join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as the lone players to win golf’s career grand slam as only the PGA Championship is missing from Spieth’s resume. Player (1965) and Nicklaus (1966) completed the career slam a year apart and now we could see McIlroy and Spieth do it a month apart after Rory won the Masters last month to complete his.
No matter what happens this week, it surely won’t top the craziness of 2024 when Scheffler was arrested on his way to the host course in Louisville for a traffic violation. It became worldwide news because it appeared the police vastly overreacted, and indeed the charges were all eventually dropped. Scheffler was out of jail in time to play his Round 2. Kudos to him for finishing T8 with all that going on around him.
Regarding LIV guys, former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson (+12500) will be in this week’s field thanks to a special invitation from the PGA of America. Winners of the past five Masters are eligible to play in the PGA Championship. Johnson’s exemption from his 2020 triumph at Augusta National had run out. DJ has won two majors in his career but not the PGA, in which he finished runner-up in 2019 and 2020. Johnson is scheduled to be one of 16 LIV members in the 156-player field in Philly.
Like the U.S. Open and British Open, the PGA Championship rotates courses every year. Quail Hollow, a par 71 at 7,626 yards this week, is the annual host of the PGA Tour’s Truist Championship – which was held last week in Philadelphia for this year as a stand-in and won by Austria’s Sepp Straka. Quail Hollow also hosted the 2017 PGA Championship won by American Justin Thomas at 8-under 276.
The toughest stretch at Quail Hollow is the final three holes, known as The Green Mile: two long par 4s sandwiching a 223-yard par 3. The Green Mile had had the toughest average score to par among any three finishing holes among non-major courses in the 2024 season. The 2017 PGA Championship played there had the highest average score to par (+2.47) of any course during that season.
The defending PGA Championship winner is another American in Xander Schauffele. He closed with a 6-under 65 to finish at 21-under 263 at Valhalla in Louisville and beat out LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau by a shot for his first major title. Schauffele, who would then add a second major later in 2024 at the British Open, became the first player since Phil Mickelson in 2005 at Baltusrol to win the PGA Championship with a birdie on the last hole to win by one, and his 263 total was the lowest in major championship history.
DeChambeau was on the range, staying loose for a potential playoff, watching Schauffele from a large video board. That was one knock on Valhalla that it played too easy, but that most likely will not be the case this week at Quail Hollow. The last repeat winner of the PGA Championship was Brooks Koepka in 2019. He’s +5000 this week to win it a fourth time overall.
PGA Championship Golf Odds
Pretty rare nowadays for world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler to not be a sole favourite in a tournament, but the American is at +500 with Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy. Scheffler had been having a good season for most guys but disappointing for him until he won CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Dallas two weeks ago with a PGA Tour record-tying total of 253. Scheffler looks for his first Wannamaker Trophy at the PGA Championship. He was a co-runner-up in 2023 in New York.
McIlroy has won the regular PGA Tour stop at Quail Hollow a record four times, last in 2024. Those are the most such wins by any golfer at any course since 2010. Rory has three wins on Tour this year, including of course the Masters. McIlroy has won the PGA twice but not since it moved back to May.
LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau is +850 and then a drop-off to Justin Thomas at +1800, former world No. 1 and LIV guy Jon Rahm at +2000, and defending champion Xander Schauffele also at +2000. Each of the eight past winners of the PGA Championship are currently multi-time major winners in their career.
DeChambeau was runner-up to Schauffele last year and hasn’t won this event but does have two majors on his resume. And just recently won on the LIV Tour in South Korea. Thomas has won this tournament twice and is having a major bounce-back season with a win in 2025. Rahm has a Masters and U.S. Open win in his career but not the PGA. Rahm hasn’t finished outside the Top 10 in any LIV event in 2025 but not won one. Schauffele has two runners-up in this regular Tour event in at Quail Hollow.
No Canadian has won this tournament. Corey Conners was the top finisher in 2024 at T26, followed by Adam Svensson at T43 and Adam Hadwin at T60. Taylor Pendrith, Mackenzie Hughes and Nick Taylor missed the cut.
PGA Championship Golf Predictions
We simply recommended an American winner last year at -125, and that cashed with a USA player capturing the PGA Championship for a ninth straight year. That’s the play again. But for an individual, we like Bryson DeChambeau at +850.