Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte has been a regular stop on the PGA Tour schedule since 1969 and now it will host a major for the second time in its historyThe 2025 PGA Championship will be held at Quail Hollow starting ThursdayMay 15when Justin Thomas will hope that a recent victory and nostalgia can help propel him to a third PGA Championship titleThomas won the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow and recently ended a nearly three-year winless drought with a victory at the 2025 RBC HeritageThomas is +2000 in the 2025 PGA Championship oddswhile Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are +500 co-favorites.
Scheffler is coming off a dominant eight-shot win last week in Dallaswhile McIlroy completed the career grand slam at the Masters and is a four-time winner at Quail HollowBefore locking in any 2025 PGA Championship picks of your ownor entering any 2025 PGA Championship DFS picks and prop bets on sites like FanDuelDraftKingsand PrizePicksbe sure to see the early golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
SportsLines proprietary modelbuilt by DFS pro Mike McClurehas been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June 2020In factthe model is up nearly $9,000 on its best bets since the restartnailing tournament after tournament.
This same model has also nailed a whopping 14 majors entering the weekendincluding the 2025 Masters its fourth Masters in a row and last years PGA Championship and U.SOpenAnyone who has followed its sports betting picks could have seen massive returns on betting apps like FanDuelDraftKings and Fanatics.
Now that the 2025 PGA Championship field is taking shapeSportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 timesand the results were surprisingHead to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.
2025 PGA Championship predictions
One major surprise the model is calling for at the PGA Championship 2025Xander Schauffelethe defending champion and a two-time major winnerstumbles and barely cracks the top 10Schauffele has racked up nine career wins on the PGA Tour and has made the cut in 62 consecutive tournaments the longest such streak since Tiger Woods historic run 142 straight from 1998 to 2005.
HoweverSchauffele has recorded just one top-10 finish this season after dealing with rib injury earlier in the yearThe 31-year-old has struggled mightily with a putter in his handsranking 142nd in putting average 1.772156th in one-putt percentage 38.19and 161st in strokes gainedputting -0.475Hes also been ineffective off the teeranking 148th in total driving 228 and 162nd in strokes gainedoff the tee -0.439Hes not a strong pick to win it alland there are far better values in the 2025 PGA Championship field.
Another surpriseJon Rahman 18-1 longshotmakes a strong run at the titleHes a target for anyone looking for a huge paydayThe 30-year-old Spaniard already has 22 professional wins under his belt worldwide and is a two-time major champion 2021 U.SOpen2023 Masters.
Rahm has finished top-10 in 13 of his last 27 starts in majors and has already piled up eight career top-five finishes in majors during his brief careerHe has finished top-15 in eight of the nine starts he has made worldwide this seasonincluding a 14th-place finish at the Masters despite an opening-round 75Rahm made the cut in his first PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in 2017 and has stated he thinks the course suits his game well despite mediocre results in his career thereSee who else to pick here.
How to make 2025 PGA Championship picks
The model is also targeting three other golfers with odds longer than 20-1 who will make a strong run at the titleAnyone who backs these longshots could hit it bigYou can only see the models picks here.
Who will win the 2025 PGA Championshipand which longshots will stun the golfing worldCheck out the 2025 PGA Championship odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected leaderboardall from the model thats nailed 14 golf majorsincluding the last four Masters and three majors in 2024.
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Scottie Scheffler +500
Rory McIlroy +500
Bryson DeChambeau +1000
Ludvig Aberg +1200
Xander Schauffele +1200
Collin Morikawa +1400
Jon Rahm +1800
Justin Thomas +2000
Brooks Koepka +2000
Viktor Hovland +2500
Patrick Cantlay +2800
Tyrrell Hatton +2800
Hideki Matsuyama +3000
Joaquin Niemann +35000
Tommy Fleetwood +4000
Will Zalatoris +4000
Corey Conners +4000
Wyndham Clark +4000
Jordan Spieth +4000
Sungjae Im +4000
Cameron Smith +4000
Shane Lowry +4500
Tony Finau +4500
Cameron Young +5000
Russell Henley +5000
Min Woo Lee +5000
Jason Day +5500
Sahith Theegala +5500
Justin Rose +5500
Tom Kim +6000
Sepp Straka +6000
Max Homa +6000
Sam Burns +6000
Matt Fitzpatrick +6000
Dustin Johnson +6000
Akhshay Bhatia +6500
Byeong-Hun An +6600
Patrick Reed +7500
Si Woo Kim +8000
Talor Gooch +8000
Nick Dunlap +8000
Adam Scott +10000
Keegan Bradley +12500
Brian Harman +12500
Rickie Fowler +12500
Kurt Kitayama +15000
Tiger Woods +15000
Cam Davis +15000
Nicolai Hojgaard +15000
Stephan Jaeger +15000
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +15000
Harris English +15000
Doug Ghim +17500
Keith Mitchell +17500
Denny McCarthy +20000
Lucas Glover +20000
Eric Cole +20000
Jake Knapp +20000,
