Most seasons the Masters is the only Major in which punters have a trove of recent course and distance form to guide them, but the 2025 PGA Championship offers another opportunity to side with those who have shown consistent, relevant aptitude for the demands of the track.
The Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina plays host to this year’s edition having hosted a PGA Tour tournament under one name or another from 2003 to the present day (barring 2017 and 2022).
Our three selections include a joint-favourite, alongside 19/1 and 135/1 each-way picks all of whom have strong past performances around the course in their lockers.
Rory can’t be far away at a course he relishes
Fresh from getting the career Slam monkey off his back at the Masters, Rory McIlroy makes appeal as a PGA Championship win bet even at cramped odds of 9/2 on the grounds of his past success at the venue.
The Northern Irishman has won no fewer than four PGA tour events at Quail Hollow, having prevailed in 2010, 2015, 2021 and 2024.
He’s shown no signs of a loss of focus following the great relief of that Masters success with T12 and T7 finishes since and should relish the course, having been made even longer for the PGA Championship as he currently ranks third on tour for average driving distance.
Rory McIlory
@ 5/1
Schauffele to contend back at scene of near misses
An off season rib injury is a fair excuse for Xander Schauffele’s recent form falling a bit short of an incendiary 2024 campaign that included 15 top 10 finishes from 22 PGA Tour events, including breakthrough Major wins at the PGA Championship and the Open Championship.
Yet the Jupiter, Florida native has still been consistent, carding his fifth successive Major finish of T8 or better at the Masters and finishing T12 or better in three of his last four outings.
Schauffele has unfinished business with Quail Hollow having placed second in the 2023 and 2024 editions of the Wells Fargo Championship at the North Carolina venue.
A repeat of those efforts will do nicely enough for the 31-year-old’s each-way backers, but there’s encouragement the 31-year-old could do better still granted the physical improvement expected from further post-injury match practice since Augusta.
He dismantled a 7,609 yard Valhalla to win last year’s PGA Championship beating the big-bopping Bryson De Chambeau in the process and has all the tools for this test.
Xander Schauffele
@ 19/1
Course could draw uptick from inconsistent Homa
Max Homa has enjoyed a somewhat fraught season, telling reporters of his ‘toxic relationship’ with the sport of golf earlier in the campaign amid a run of five consecutive missed cuts.
However, the stiff jolt of Major tournament golf was enough to shake him out of that slump as the 34-year-old posted a T12 finish at the Masters.
Homa’s past record around Quail Hollow offers reason to suspect the 70/1 shot could up his game again for another of the sport’s big four events. He won the 2019 running of the Wells Fargo and has reaffirmed his liking for the track since, finishing T8 in both 2023 and 2024.
Max Homa
@ 135/1
