2025 PGA Championship Preview: Everything you need to know ahead of Quail Hollow

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Get up to speed with our 2025 PGA Championship preview.

Get up to speed with our 2025 PGA Championship preview.

The strongest field of the season assembles at Quail Hollow Golf Club, where Rory McIlroy targets back-to-back majors.

Only five times in the last 30 editions has the PGA Championship been won by a margin of more than two strokes. And you have to go back a decade to Jason Day’s three-shot victory at Whistling Straits to find the last time it happened.

Rory McIlroy’s eight-shot demolition job at Kiawah Island in 2014 was a massive outlier in an otherwise super competitive championship, touted by many to be the season’s strongest lineup.

With the Grand Slam under his belt, McIlroy goes in search of a third Wanamaker Trophy and second major on the bounce at Quail Hollow, a notoriously happy hunting ground for the Northern Irishman.

Equally buoyant, though, will be World No.1 Scottie Scheffler, fresh off the back of equalling the PGA Tour scoring record at TPC Craig Ranch for his first win of 2025. The game’s top two will battle it out against a further 27 major champions in this year’s field, including defending champion Xander Schauffele and a strong contingent of 16 LIV stars led by Bryson DeChambeau.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 PGA Championship…

Xander Schauffele will defend the Wanamaker Trophy against the 2025 PGA Championship field

2025 PGA Championship: Key details

Venue: Quail Hollow Golf Club, North Carolina (Par 71 – 7,626 yards)

Format: 72-hole strokeplay with 36-hole cut

Purse: Yet to be revealed (2024 – $18.5 million with the winner receiving $3.33m

FedEx Cup points: 750

Favorites: Scottie Scheffler & Rory McIlroy 9/2

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Defending champion: Xander Schauffele (USA), -21

Last Quail Hollow champion: 2017 – Justin Thomas (USA), -8

Most wins: Jack Nicklaus (USA), 5

Justin Thomas first won the US PGA Championship in 2017.

How to watch the PGA Championship

The 2025 PGA Championship will be broadcast on ESPN, CBS, and Paramount+ in the US, and on Sky Sports in the UK from Thursday, May 15, with additional build-up through the week.

Head over to our full 2025 PGA Championship TV schedule for all the key timings you need.

PGA Championship tee times

Dive into daily PGA Championship tee times throughout the week to ensure you don’t miss your favorite players in action – coming soon.

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