2026 PGA Championship Betting Odds: Can Cameron Young secure first career major?
The second major championship in golf arrives on Thursday as the PGA Championship heads to Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia for only the second time. World No. 1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler is the +340 favourite on the golf odds.
PGA Championship
We could see a few versions of history this week should Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy or American Jordan Spieth win. McIlroy of course repeated at this year’s Masters and tries to become the first player since Jack Nicklaus in 1975 to win the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year. The last golfer overall to win back-to-back majors was Spieth in 2015 when he took the Masters and U.S. Open – the PGA was played later in the summer then.
When McIlroy won the Masters the first time in 2025, he completed the career Grand Slam. Spieth is making his 10th attempt at doing so but has finished outside the Top 25 in the past six tries. Spieth is one of 11 golfers all-time with exactly three legs of the carer Slam and one of three without the PGA Championship along with legends Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson. Spieth is a +5700 longer shot and missed the cut last year at Quail Hollow in Charlotte.
Scheffler won that PGA Championship in a rout by five strokes over three runners-up. Scheffler shot a 65 Round 3 to move from a three-stroke 36-hole deficit to three-stroke 54-hole lead. He did struggle on the front nine Sunday and briefly fell into a tie with Spain’s Jon Rahm, but then Scheffler shot a 2-under on the back nine to pull away. It was the largest margin of victory in this tournament since McIlroy won by eight in 2012 at Kiawah Island in South Carolina. I simply recommended an American winner in 2025.
Aronimink Golf Club is a par 70 at about 7,400 yards, and the only other major it has hosted was the 1962 PGA Championship. Gary Player won at 2-under by a shot over Bob Goalby. Aronimink has hosted four regular PGA Tour events since then, last the 2018 BMW Championship that was part of the FedExCup playoffs and won by Keegan Bradley in a playoff over Justin Rose after both finished 72 holes at 20-under 260.
The PGA Championship playoff format is three-hole aggregate score (usually holes No. 16-18) followed by sudden death if necessary. The last one was in 2022 when Justin Thomas beat Will Zalatoris at Southern Hills in Oklahoma.
This may well be the last PGA Championship with LIV golfers at least as we know that tour. Lot of people think it may fold after 2026 with Saudi Arabia pulling funding. All of the big-name guys are playing this week other than two-time winner Phil Mickelson. He is dealing with some family issues and also missed the Masters. Lefty has barely played with LIV this year.
PGA Championship Golf Odds
Scottie Scheffler (+345) can become the fourth golfer the stroke play era (since 1958) to win back-to-back PGA Championships after (1999-00 Tiger Woods, 2006-07 Woods and 2018-19 Brooks Koepka).
Scheffler enters with a rather frustrating trend: Three straight runner-up finishes. He is the first golfer with three second-place finishes in a row on the PGA Tour since Sergia Garcia in 2014. Scheffler has finished Top 4 in an incredible 53 per cent of all Tour starts the past five seasons.
Rory McIlroy (+870) tries to become the seventh golfer all-time with at least three PGA Championships wins (2012 & ’14). A seventh career major title would tie for the seventh-most. Jon Rahm (+1325) might be the hardest hit player by a potentially much weaker LIV Tour going forward because the Spaniard is locked into a contract. Rahm, looking for his first PGA Championship win, as noted was contending on Sunday last year before imploding late and finishing T8.
Cameron Young (+1550) has two wins this season and seems due a major title sooner or later – he was third at the Masters. Bryson DeChambeau (+1750) is another of 11 LIV golfers and eyeing his first Wanamaker Trophy. He finished in the Top 5 in four of the past five PGA Championships, including runner-up in each of the past two.
No Canadian has won this tournament. Taylor Pendrith was the top finisher in 2025 at T5 thanks to a final-round 68. Corey Conners was T19, while Nick Taylor, Mackenzie Hughes and Adam Hadwin missed the cut. Conners is +14000 this week, with Taylor +18500, Pendrith +27000 and Sudarshan Yellamaraju, who secured the final spot as an alternate, at +24000.
PGA Championship Golf Predictions
Eight of the past nine major winners entered among the Top 5 betting favourites, while the past 10 PGA Championship winners were American. A USA winner would be our play again at -140.