PGA Championship 2025 Golf Preview And Picks

My early PGA Championship 2025 preview at Off Shore Gaming Association includes top player profiles and odds. The major championship at Quail Hollow is among the very strongest field with 156 players taking aim at the 7,626 yard par 71 course. Navigating the closing 3-hole stretch at the “Green Mile” will be fun to watch and challenging for the players with is an unforgiving par-4/par-3/par-4 trilogy that has water hazards nestled against each green. Those three holes annually rank among the top-5 toughest scoring holes in events played at Quail Hollow.

Read more in my PGA Championship coverage at OSGA, and check back for more odds, updates and picks, including tournament matchups which went 2-0 at the Truist Championship and having a solid season of winning results.

PGA Championship Odds

Golf odds from leading online sportsbooks vary and are subject to change. PGA Championship 2025 leading favorites and contenders odds from DraftKings Sportsbook. 

• +400: Scheffler
• +475: McIlroy
• +1400: DeChambeau
• +1600: Rahm
• +1800: Schauffele
• +2000: Aberg, Hovland
• +2200: Thomas, Morikawa
• +3000: Niemann, Koepka
• +3500: Hatton
• +4000: Matsuyama
• +4500: Fleetwood, Cantlay
• +5000: Spieth
• +6000: Lowry, Conners
• +6500: Henley
• +7000: Day
• +7500: Clark
• +8000: Sungjae Im, Garcia, Reed
• +9000: Straka, Rose, Min Woo Lee
• +10000: MacIntyre, Berger, Puig, Dustin Johnson
• +11000: Finau, McNealy, Bradley, Si Woo Kim, Cam Smith
• +12000: Burns, Byeong Hun An, Burmester
• +13000: Zalatoris
• +14000: Pendrith, Bhatia
• +15000: Mitchell, Spaun, Homa, McCarthy
• +15000: Harman, Rai, Tom Kim, Michael Kim

72-hole Winning Score: Over/Under TBD (Par 71)

PGA Championship 2025 Picks

Fairway’s Favorites: McIlroy, Schauffele, Morikawa, Hatton
Fairway’s Longshots: Fleetwood, Clark, Pendrith, Hun An
Check back for more.

Tournament Match-ups: Updated Wed.

PGA tournament matchups winners posted in Forbes from Jan-April include 2-0 in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am with tournament winner Rory McIlroy over Scottie Scheffler. Phoenix Open followers of FairwayJay went 1-0 with Justin Thomas (T6) over Hideki Matsuyama plus Justin Thomas over Xander Schauffele in The Players Championship, 1-0 in the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld and Houston Open winner Min Woo Lee also a tournament matchup winner. The Masters outright winner Rory McIlroy was another matchup winner over Scottie Scheffler as a big plus underdog again. Daniel Berger was the winner (1-0) in our RBC Heritage matchup at Harbour Town. A 2-0 tournament matchup result in the Truist Championship with both picks Mitchell and Cantlay winning easily and performing very well with top 10 finishes.

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Next week it’s the 2025 Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, TX.

Golf Betting Notes and History from FairwayJay

My golf coverage and research includes use and references from sites at Golf Stats along with Fantasy National, and Data Golf. I gain added information and betting news from other sites and golf analysts. That includes top golf insider Justin Ray Golf, who contributes to PGA Tour (dot com) and The Athletic with insightful stats. The site GolfStats has also has player performance charts and a player competitor tool plus added stats and previews.

2022 PGA Tour tournament match-up picks finished 20-12 and concluded with the TOUR Championship.

The 2021 tournament match-ups finished 21-15 following a 17-5 start January through May.