PGA Championship
PGA Championship odds 2025
The PGA Championship is one of four men’s Major golf championships, coming second in the calendar after The Masters and before the U.S. Open and Open Championship.
The tournament is played at a different course each year and in 2025 the players will take on Quail Hollow Golf & Country Club in North Carolina, which also hosted the tournament back in 2017.
Given it is the Major most similar to the weekly PGA Tour tournaments, posing less of a unique challenge than the other three, it is no surprise to see that Americans – who make up the majority of the PGA Tour, have dominated. The last nine years have seen an American lift the trophy, with Jason Day (2015) and Rory McIlroy (2012, 2014) the last two to break the cycle.
However, European golf has been riding the high of their Ryder Cup win, with seven of the 18 PGA Tour tournaments so far this season being won by Europeans and just six by Americans. With that in mind, this year’s PGA Championship could be a much more international affair.
Below we take a look at how the betting is shaping up ahead of the 2025 PGA Championship.
The frontrunners
This year’s market is shaping up with two clear frontrunners. Masters winner Rory McIlroy finds himself at the head of the betting at 9/2, just a shade shorter than the Tour’s standout star of the past few years, Scottie Scheffler (5/1).
McIlroy was not the favourite for any of the 2025 Majors heading into this season, but some exceptional performances have seen him nudge ahead of Scheffler both here and for the Open. The end of a gruelling wait for a win at Augusta and the completion of the Career Grand Slam has left a lot of people thinking he will be hard to beat at every Major this year, playing with the kind of freedom he hasn’t felt in a number of years.
It would be silly of anyone to discount the seemingly inevitable Scheffler, though. His price of 5/1, despite having not won on the PGA Tour yet this season, shows just how much ability he retains and how dominant he’s been since the 2022 season. He finished second to fellow American Brooks Koepka at Oak Hill Country Club in 2023 and he’ll be determined to go one better this year to add a third Major to his ever-growing CV.
Mounting a challenge
Of course, a Major championship is never just going to become a straight shoot-out between the two most-fancied golfers and others will surely play their part. Defending champion Xander Schauffele certainly won’t want to give up his title without a fight and he’s third in the betting at 12/1.
Ludvig Åberg and Bryson DeChambeau both had impressive weeks in Augusta and share a price of 14/1 here, while the leading LIV Golf candidate is Jon Rahm at 18/1.
Also at 18/1 is former champion Collin Morikawa, who could just be the value pick for the tournament. He was many people’s pick for The Masters but was just unable to go low enough to stay in touch with those that pulled away, but his final score of three-under-par was steady enough. He’s the best iron and approach player on the Tour at the moment, and he just needs the putter to oblige to have a real chance of reclaiming the crown he won back in 2020.
Each-way plays
For value in the each-way market, which at the moment is paying 6 places, we look to those priced at 20/1 or bigger. Justin Thomas, the 2017 and 2022 champion, is one who instantly catches the eye. He recently scored his first Tour win since that 2022 triumph and arrives here in fine form at a price of 20/1.
Further down the list we find Corey Conners, who brings a nice combination of previous course form and high confidence. The Canadian’s T8 finish at The Masters was impressive enough and combined with results of 42nd, 43rd, eighth and 13th at Quail Hollow, his steady improvement could see him sneak into the places at a nice price of 66/1.
