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Field List Announced for 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla

The PGA of America has announced the current field list for the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club, May 16-19.

Valhalla is hosting the PGA Championship for the fourth time. Tiger Woods (2000) and Rory McIlroy (2014) have won the last two PGA Championships held at Valhalla.

Three-time & defending PGA Champion Brooks Koepka will lead a field that includes 16 PGA Champions and 33 Major Champions.

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The best field in golf is coming to Valhalla! 👀 #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/rrdDO2l8Ma — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 1, 2024

Please see below for the current field list.

2024 PGA Championship Field List (As of May 15)

Åberg, Ludvig - SWEDEN An, Byeong Hun - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Beem, Rich - Austin, TX Bevell, Josh - Nashville, TN (CFT) Bezuidenhout, Christiaan - SOUTH AFRICA Bhatia, Akshay - Wake Forest, NC

Akshay Bhatia made magic at the 2018 @JuniorPGAChamp . He’ll return to Valhalla for his PGA championship debut in 2024. #PGAChamp | #TopShotTuesday pic.twitter.com/FOasRVl7bv — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) September 12, 2023

Björk, Alexander - SWEDEN Blair, Zac - Orem, UT Block, Michael - Mission Viejo, CA (CFT) Bowser, Evan - Naples, FL (CFT) Bradley, Keegan - Woodstock, VT Burmester, Dean - SOUTH AFRICA Burns, Sam - Shreveport, LA Cantlay, Patrick - Jupiter, FL Clark, Wyndham - Denver, CO Cole, Eric - Tequesta, FL Cole, Preston - Charlotte, NC (CFT) Collet, Tyler - Vero Beach, FL (CFT) Conners, Corey - CANADA Daly, John - Clearwater Beach, FL Davis, Cameron - AUSTRALIA Day, Jason - AUSTRALIA

Jason Day's short-game in slow motion. Chef's kiss. 🧑🏽‍🍳 #PGAChamp | #SlowMoSunday pic.twitter.com/YJMYVKdLHv — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) February 25, 2024

DeChambeau, Bryson - Dallas, TX Detry, Thomas - BELGIUM Dobyns, Matt - Glen Head, NY (CFT) Donald, Luke - ENGLAND Dufner, Jason - Auburn, AL Dunlap, Nick - Tuscaloosa, AL Eckroat, Austin - Edmond, OK English, Harris - Sea Island, GA Finau, Tony - Lehi, UT Fitzpatrick, Matthew - ENGLAND Fleetwood, Tommy - ENGLAND Fowler, Rickie - Murrieta, CA Fox, Ryan - NEW ZEALAND Garnett, Brice - Gallatin, MO Ghim, Doug - Des Plaines, IL Glover, Lucas - Jupiter, FL Gooch, Talor - Oklahoma City, OK Gotterup, Chris - Easton, MD Griffin, Ben - Chapel Hill, NC Grillo, Emiliano - ARGENTINA Gross, Larkin - Center Cross, VA (CFT) Hadwin, Adam - CANADA Harman, Brian - Saint Simons Island, GA Harrington, Pádraig - IRELAND Hatton, Tyrrell - ENGLAND Henley, Russell - Columbus, GA Herbert, Lucas - Orlando, FL Hisatsune, Ryo - Japan Hodges, Lee - Athens, AL Hoffman, Charley - San Diego, CA Hoge, Tom - Fort Worth, TX Højgaard, Nicolai - DENMARK Højgaard, Rasmus - DENMARK Homa, Max - Scottsdale, AZ Horschel, Billy - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Hossler, Beau - Mission Viejo, CA Hovland, Viktor - NORWAY Hubbard, Mark - The Woodlands, TX Hughes, Mackenzie - CANADA Im, Sungjae - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Jaeger, Stephan - GERMANY Johnson, Dustin - Jupiter, FL Jones, Jared - Houston, TX (CFT) Kanaya, Takumi - JAPAN Kaymer, Martin - GERMANY Kellen, Jeff - Rockford, IL (CFT) Kim, S.H. - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Kim, Si Woo - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Kim, Tom - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Kirk, Chris - Watkinsville, GA Kitayama, Kurt - Las Vegas, NV Knapp, Jake - Costa Mesa, CA Kobori, Kazuma - NEW ZEALAND Koepka, Brooks - West Palm Beach, FL

Brooks Koepka wins his 3rd PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club. @ROLEX | #ROLEX pic.twitter.com/6b0GvKjUpJ — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 22, 2023

Kohles, Ben - Dallas, TX Lawrence, Thriston - SOUTH AFRICA Lee, Kyoung-Hoon - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Lee, Min Woo - AUSTRALIA List, Luke - Augusta, GA Lowry, Shane - IRELAND MacIntyre, Robert - SCOTLAND Malnati, Peter - Knoxville, TN Marek, Brad - Berkeley, CA (CFT) Matsuyama, Hideki - JAPAN McCarthy, Denny - Jupiter, FL McIlroy, Rory - NORTHERN IRELAND McNealy, Maverick - Stanford, CA Mendoza, Kyle - Oceanside, CA (CFT) Meronk, Adrian - POLAND Micheel, Shaun - Colliersville, TN Mickelson, Phil - Rancho Santa Fe, CA Mitchell, Keith - Saint Simons Island, GA Molinari, Francesco - ITALY Moore, Taylor - Southlake, TX Morikawa, Collin - La Canada, CA

We've seen what Collin Morikawa can do on a Sunday before . . . 🏆 #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/0mxCUjosSf — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) April 14, 2024

Mueller, Jesse - Phoenix, AZ (CFT) Murray, Grayson - Raleigh, NC Nakajima, Keita - JAPAN Niemann, Joaquin - CHILE Noren, Alex - SWEDEN Norrman, Vincent - SWEDEN Oakley, Zac - King of Prussia, PA (CFT) Ogletree, Andy - Alpharetta, GA Olesen, Thorbjorn - DENMARK Otaegui, Adrian - SPAIN Pan, C.T. - CHINESE TAIPEI Pavon, Matthieu - FRANCE Pendrith, Taylor - CANADA Perez, Victor - FRANCE Phillips, Tracy - Tulsa, OK (CFT) Polland, Ben - Teton Village, WY (CFT) Poston, J.T. - Sea Island, GA Puig, David - SPAIN Putnam, Andrew - University Place, WA Rahm, Jon - SPAIN Rai, Aaron - ENGLAND Reed, Patrick - The Woodlands, TX Rodgers, Patrick - Avon, IN Rose, Justin - ENGLAND Schauffele, Xander - San Diego, CA Scheffler, Scottie - Dallas, TX Schenk, Adam - Vincennes, IN Scott, Adam - AUSTRALIA Shattuck, Braden - Aston, PA (CFT) Smalley, Alex - Greensboro, NC Smith, Cameron - AUSTRALIA Smith, Jordan - ENGLAND Soderberg, Sebastian - SWEDEN Somers, John - Clearwater, FL (CFT) Speight, Josh - Dallas, TX (CFT) Spieth, Jordan - Dallas, TX Straka, Sepp - AUSTRIA Svensson, Adam - CANADA Svensson, Jesper - SWEDEN Svoboda, Andy - Oak Brook, IL (CFT) Taylor, Nick - CANADA Theegala, Sahith - Spring, TX Thomas, Justin - Louisville, KY

18 wasn't enough, so @JustinThomas34 ran it back at Valhalla for another day of prep. 🏆 #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/EH6zI0qPBJ — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 6, 2024

Todd, Brendon - Watkinsville, GA Tosti, Alejandro - ARGENTINA Valimaki, Sami - FINLAND van Rooyen, Erik - SOUTH AFRICA van Velzen, Ryan - SOUTH AFRICA Villegas, Camilo - COLOMBIA Walker, Jimmy - Terrell Hills, TX Wallace, Matt - ENGLAND Wells, Jeremy - Estero, FL (CFT) Widing, Tim - SWEDEN Woodland, Gary - Topeka, KS Woods, Tiger - Jupiter, FL Worthington II, Wyatt - Las Vegas, NV (CFT) Yang, Y.E. - REPUBLIC OF KOREA Young, Cameron - Jupiter, FL Zalatoris, Will - Dallas, TX

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The 106th PGA Championship returns to Valhalla this week. Here are some of the big storylines.

By Mike Darnay

May 14, 2024 / 3:12 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KDKA) -- The PGA Championship returns to Valhalla Golf Club for the fourth time as the tournament is set to get underway this week.

Here are some of the big storylines ahead of the 106th playing of the PGA Championship. 

Brooks Koepka eyeing his sixth major

Last year's defending champion is looking to win his sixth overall major, which would move him into a tie for 12th place all-time alongside names like Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo, and Phil Mickelson.

Koepka heads into this week's tournament after winning at Oak Hill last year and finishing tied for 17th at last year's U.S. Open before a suboptimal showing at last year's Open Championship and this year's playing of the Masters. 

Rory's decade-long drought

It's coming up on nearly a full decade since Rory McIlroy last won a major. Ironically enough, McIlroy's last major win came in 2014 when he won the PGA Championship at none other than, you guessed it, Valhalla. 

This will surely be a massive talking point this week for one of the giants of the game. 

McIlroy has had numerous close calls in recent years, finishing 2nd at the Masters and U.S. Open and 3rd at the Open Championship all within the last 13 months. 

In his last ten major tournament appearances, McIlroy has seven top-ten finishes and has only missed the cut once. 

Rory heads into the PGA this week in fine form with wins the last two weeks at the Zurich Classic alongside fellow Irishman Shane Lowry and at the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday. 

Michael Block back in the limelight

Michael Block made all of the headlines a year ago when he made the cut at Oak Hill, finding himself paired with Rory McIlroy for the final day of the tournament.

He was the ultimate crowd favorite and made a hole-in-one with the world watching.

MICHAEL BLOCK HOLE-IN-ONE‼️ YOU COULDN'T WRITE A BETTER SCRIPT 👏 pic.twitter.com/OLwKoIYYuP — ESPN (@espn) May 21, 2023

He wasn't done yet though, as he converted an exceptional up-and-down par on the 18th hole to earn his way into this year's tournament at Valhalla. 

Scottie Scheffler no longer on baby watch

So far this season on the PGA Tour, no one has been able to stop Scottie Scheffler. 

The #1 ranked player in the world, Scheffler  won the Arnold Palmer Invitational  and  The Players Championship in March  before winning  the Masters  and the  RBC Heritage last month.

There was talk heading into The Masters and this week that the pending birth of his first child might be the only thing able to keep him off of the course and outside of the winner's circle.

At Augusta National, Scheffler Baby Watch was on as his wife Meredith was prepared to go into labor and Scottie said he would leave the course and be there, no matter where he was at in the tournament. 

Baby Watch continued on over the past few weeks, but the watch has ended, as Meredith and Scottie are celebrating the birth of their child.

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Scheffler will be in the field at the PGA Championship this week and gunning for his third major. 

Tiger Woods in the field

A past champion at Valhalla, Tiger is in the hunt for his 16th major this week at the PGA Championship. 

Woods was out on the course for a practice round yesterday sporting a goatee that we didn't see earlier this year. 

His arrival at Valhalla comes on the heels of last month's Masters tournament where he made his 24th straight cut. 

Woods has won four PGA Championships in his career with his last coming in 2007 at Southern Hills. 

Justin Thomas back in his home state

One of the fan favorites this week will surely be Kentucky's native son, Justin Thomas. 

Born and raised in Louisville, Thomas was a standout youth and high school golfer before playing his college golf at the University of Alabama. 

A two-time winner of the PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022, Thomas is eyeing his third major championship and would surely love to do so in front of a home crowd. 

Valhalla's fourth time hosting the PGA

Valhalla has played host to major championships before, hosting the PGA Championship three times -- in 1996, 2000, and 2014.

The Jack Nicklaus-designed course opened in 1986 and will play just over 7,600 yards for this week's tournament. 

In past years, the tournament was held in August, but this will be the first time Valhalla hosts the PGA in May. 

When does the tournament start?

The opening round of the PGA Championship will get underway on Thursday. 

Tee times and pairings haven't been announced yet. 

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at KDKA-TV/CBS News Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking news, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and high school sports.

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The second men’s major championship of the year get underway next week at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. The PGA Championship last visited this historic track in 2014 when Rory McIlroy claimed his fourth major championship title — and his most recent. We’ll have to see whether the Northern Irishman can return to glory at the site of his last major triumph.

Valhalla has hosted several significant tournaments in its history, including the 2000 PGA Championship won by Tiger Woods in a playoff. Woods’ iconic walk-in putt while pointing to the hole is one of the most memorable moments of his career — which is saying a lot.

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Let’s take a walk through history and recap all the significant events held at Valhalla over the years.

1996 PGA Championship

Mark Brooks and Kenny Perry shake hands after Brooks won the 1996 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville.

• Winner: Mark Brooks (in a playoff)
• Score: 11 under
• Runner-up: Kenny Perry

Ten years after Valhalla opened — thanks to the vision of the Gahms, the course’s founding family — it finally had its first signature tournament. And what remains the signature win of Mark Brooks’ golfing career.

But it nearly was a storybook ending for the course, and the Bluegrass State: Kenny Perry, a Kentuckian, shot a 4-under-par 68 to end at 11 under for 72 holes. That earned him a spot in a sudden-death playoff with Brooks. On the first playoff hole, however, Perry’s tee shot went into the rough.

Brooks, who had birdied the 18th hole to force the playoff with Perry, birdied the 18th again to ruin Perry’s dreams — and likely those of many in attendance that August day — of winning a major in his home state.

It was the only major victory for Brooks, who won seven times on the PGA Tour and is a member of the Texas Golf Hall of Fame.

Perry, who played at Western Kentucky, had 14 wins on the PGA Tour — but a major wasn’t among them. He had two other top fives in addition to the 1996 PGA playoff loss; Perry had a share of the 54-hole lead at the 2009 Masters but fell in a playoff to Angel Cabrera.

Since joining the Champions tour, Perry has won four major championships on the senior circuit.

2000 PGA Championship

Tiger Woods holds the trophy after winning the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. (Photo: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports)

• Winner: Tiger Woods (in a playoff)
• Score: 18 under
• Runner-up: Bob May

Woods entered the 2000 PGA as the undisputed No. 1 player in golf. May had never won a PGA Tour event.

Their vastly different résumés meant nothing during the final round of what then still was known as “Glory’s Last Shot” because of the PGA’s position as the final major of the year in those days. Woods, who already had the U.S. Open and Open Championship titles to his name that year (winning those two by a combined 23 strokes), had to birdie his final two holes in regulation to force a playoff with May.

The three-hole aggregate playoff — the first year of the format, switching from sudden death — delivered drama in spades.

It started with the aforementioned birdie putt from Woods on the 16th.

The pair each made par on the next hole, the 17th. On the final hole, No. 18, May’s birdie putt barely slid by the cup. Woods was able to save par after hitting into a greenside bunker, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 with three major victories in a calendar year.

Woods went on to capture the 2001 Masters to complete the “Tiger Slam” and become the first player in the professional era of golf (beginning with the formation of the Masters in 1934) to hold all four major championships at once.

2004 Senior PGA Championship

Hale Irwin poses with the trophy after his fourth time winning the Senior PGA Championship on May 31, 2004 at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

• Winner: Hale Irwin
• Score: 8 under
• Runner-up: Jay Haas

In a rain-delayed Senior PGA Championship that ended on a Monday, Hale Irwin birdied the 18th hole to beat Jay Haas by one stroke. It was Irwin’s fourth Senior PGA Championship; only the legendary Sam Snead (six) won more. It also was Irwin’s 40th win on the senior tour, becoming the first player to reach that figure. (His 45 victories on the senior tour remained the standard until last year, when Bernhard Langer bagged No. 46).

Irwin, who led after each round of the 2004 Senior PGA, was 58 at the time of his win, making him the oldest victor of the event since 61-year-old Pete Cooper in 1976.

2008 Ryder Cup

USA captain Paul Azinger is sprayed with champagne after defeating the Europeans at the 37th Ryder Cup at the Valhalla Golf Club in 2008. (Photo: Frank Victores-USA TODAY Sports)

Score: United States 16½ – Europe 11½

Things couldn’t have been much bleaker for the U.S. team entering the 2008 Ryder Cup. For the first time in the history of the biennial event, Team Europe had brought home the cup three consecutive meetings. And the Americans were without the world’s top player, Woods, who sat out while recovering from knee surgery.

But thanks to U.S. captain Paul Azinger, the Americans didn’t taste defeat a fourth straight time.

Unlike previous men in his position, Azinger had four captain’s picks at his disposal instead of two. And he created a pod system for his team, with the 12 players divided into groups of three based on style of play and personality.

Azinger’s unconventional approach paid off: The U.S. ended the morning session of the opening day ahead 3-1 and up 5 ½ to 2 ½ when the afternoon matches wrapped up. By the close of Day 2, the U.S. led 9-7.

The red, white and blue ended Europe’s run of success in the event on the third and final day, taking a 16 ½ to 11 ½ victory on their home soil. Perry and fellow Kentuckian J.B. Holmes were members of the triumphant squad.

Jim Furyk’s 2-and-1 win over Miguel Angel Jimenez provided the clinching point for the U.S. team.

2011 Senior PGA Championship

Tom Watson holds the Alfred S. Bourne trophy after winning the 2011 Senior PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville.

• Winner: Tom Watson (in a playoff)
• Score: 10 under
• Runner-up: David Eger

In yet another tournament at Valhalla decided after 72 holes were in the books, all-time great Tom Watson birdied the first playoff hole to edge David Eger. Both players had opportunities to win in regulation, but neither could sink their respective birdie putts on the 18th.

The lead swapped hands throughout the final day, with four players — Eger, Irwin, Watson and Kiyoshi Murota, who had a share of the lead after each of the first three rounds and placed solo third, just one shot out of the playoff — taking turns at the top.

With the victory, Watson set a (since-broken) record as the oldest player (61) to win a major since the senior tour was founded in 1980.

2014 PGA Championship

Rory McIlroy celebrates with the Wanamaker trophy after his one-stroke victory in the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. (Photo: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

• Winner: Rory McIlroy
• Score: 16 under
• Runner-up: Phil Mickelson

At the time Rory McIlroy tapped in his putt on the 72nd hole of the 2014 PGA Championship, it appeared the golf world had its most dominant player since Woods in his prime. It was McIlroy’s third win in as many starts, which also included the Open Championship and a World Golf Championship.

His Valhalla conquest was his second PGA Championship in three years, giving McIlroy four major titles at just 25 years old; the only others who had accomplished that feat were three of the game’s biggest names in Woods, Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus.

But since that victory, despite oh-so-many close calls, McIlroy has yet to win another major championship.

And on that day nearly a decade ago, as he raced to beat the darkness, McIlroy had to earn it.

McIlroy held off charges from Phil Mickelson (who shot a final-round 66, two strokes better than McIlroy) and Rickie Fowler (who tied for fifth or better in all four majors that year without a win). Those three, as well as Henrik Stenson, had at least a share of the lead on the back nine during the final round.

A 10-foot birdie putt on 17 extended McIlroy’s lead to two shots with one hole to play, but then controversy ensued: He hit his tee shot on the 18th while the pairing ahead, Fowler and Mickelson, still were in the fairway. Neither Fowler nor Mickelson could match McIlroy at 16 under.

As dusk set in, the Northern Irishman cemented his status as the world’s top-ranked golfer.

“I think I showed a lot of guts out there to get the job done,” McIlroy said after the win. “Today wasn’t easy. The guys came at me pretty quickly. I was waiting for something to click.”

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Tiger Woods' WD at the Genesis wasn't enough to overshadow an otherwise fascinating look into the future of the PGA Tour.

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PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — If there is a city worthy of stress-testing professional golf’s exclusive, star-focused, image-obsessed, high-priced, overtly capitalist new business model, it is, for obvious reasons, Los Angeles .

In some ways, the PGA Tour’s Signature Events series was built exactly for Hollywood’s pro golf tournament, the Genesis Invitational. There’s a huge, high-profile sponsor (Genesis); a living legend tournament host (Tiger Woods); a historically exclusive and highly-regarded golf course (Riviera Country Club) and one of the best fields in all of professional golf. If the Tour’s new format for Signature Events — starry fields, limited (or no) cuts, lots of money — can’t work here, it’s hard to imagine where it can.

That thinking is what got a lot of the golf world to train its attention on Riviera at the beginning of the week. Tiger’s return to the sport mattered deeply, of course, but his presence was emblematic of a bigger shift on the PGA Tour — a world where the best compete against each other more often and, in theory, more interestingly.

We have seen glimmers of this transition over the last 12 months, but never quite like the Genesis, which is the first bold-faced limited-field event of the year, and as such the first bold-faced limited-field event since the Tour adopted its radical new structure of existence in early 2023. (Pebble Beach was also a limited-field event, but never quite felt that way given the tournament’s pro-am structure and dreadful weather.) Could the Tour survive its first big test? And more importantly, would LA’s entertainment-desensitized audience care?

The first answers arrived on Wednesday, when Riv welcomed an invite-only pro-am on the eve of the tournament. Those who paid the purported $10,000 entry fee got their money’s worth: the field was filled with superstars of golf and beyond, including celebrities like Al Michaels, Will Arnett and Josh Allen. A smaller group of VIPs and VUJs (Very Unimportant Journalists) were permitted to wander the fairways with those groups, watching Woods’ final practice round and Allen’s missile-launcher-adjacent driver and Arnett’s annoyingly charming scally cap in an audience of less than 200.

The vibe was subdued and inarguably clubby, and the lack of fans left the whole thing feeling like the opposite of whatever the pros mean in their weekly calls to “grow the game.” But there was a special energy among the smaller group who had been admitted on property — the same kind the Tour is hoping the event will engender more broadly. As the groups lapped the par-4 10th, a volunteer named Rick could hardly stifle a giggle.

“I used to play in the Pro-Am, but now I’m being ‘financially responsible’ [finger quotes] on a fixed income,” he cracked. “I might like today even more than those days.”

Rick was there again once the fans arrived on Thursday morning, though his excitement seemed blunted. Compared to last week’s riot control, volunteering at the Genesis doesn’t offer much by way of drunken excitement or concern about overcrowding. Rather, the job is fairly standard people-moving, which is admittedly less glitzy than watching celebrity tee shots, even for an event with fewer players and a ton of stars.

Did the smaller field or better starpower have any effect on the week’s crowd sizes? It seems unlikely. Even for those watching the main event (Tiger Woods), good vantage points could be had on all but the most claustrophobic holes. Sunday grounds tickets could be had on the eve of the tournament’s final day for $110, face value, and clubhouse tickets for $175. That isn’t a red-alarm issue, but considering the Tour’s efforts at taking the Signature Events big-time will at some point require enticing the interest of ticket-buying golf fans, it qualifies as notable.

We won’t know for a few days how the tournament did with those watching from elsewhere, though expectations are high. The West Coast hours mean primetime viewing in much of the U.S., and the quiet sports schedule means limited competition. Annually, the tournament’s ratings are some of the best of the year.

But ratings are only one measure of success with the Tour’s Signature Events model; another is entertainment value. This week’s broadcast has been a major win to that end, where the brisk pace of play and shorter tee time window provided an unusual sense of propulsion to the action.

“The flow of everything is really nice,” Jason Day agreed. “There’s not a massive backup on 10 like there usually is. So it’s kind of nice to be able to have that. I’m pretty happy with it.”

CBS, this week’s broadcaster, has seized on the shift. The network invested extra in its Genesis production, tweaking camera setups and tracer locations to maximize the viewing experience and shot-watching capabilities. Producer Sellers Shy rigged a remote-operated camera inside one of the palm trees on the 10th hole, arguably the most famous on the course, to give viewers a brand-new vantage point of the action.

“At the end of the day, the Tour is raising its product with the Signature Events,” Shy told GOLF . “We feel it’s important that we raise ours. We want viewers to feel the difference.”

Of course, no amount of cameras can make up for a dry story — and to that end, the Tour has also been blessed. Friday’s “cut” day — where only 19 players were removed from a field of 70 — featured enough Tour drama to fill an entire month, with an ambulance-chasing Tiger Woods WD and an utterly stupefying Jordan Spieth DQ . The downside of those events is that the Tour enters Sunday without two of the five biggest stars in the field by any objective measure, and that it lost both of them through no cutline of its own. The upside is that Woods and Spieth’s exits fueled a day’s worth of breathless coverage from across the sports world, giving the Genesis the brief kind of golf monoculture typically reserved for the majors.

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As for the big focus of the Tour’s Signature Events model — the performance of the stars who remained through to the weekend — the jury is still out. Patrick Cantlay (-14) leads after 54 unglamorously brilliant holes, while a host of other stars remain within striking distance (Xander Schauffele, -12; Will Zalatoris, -12; Jason Day, -10; Hideki Matsuyama, -8). Will those names be enough to lift the Genesis into must-watch TV on a Sunday in late February? The Tour hopes, but as is the case with all but a few players and events, a heart-thumping finish would help.

And isn’t that why we’re here? This week is the first test of the Tour’s ability to coax more drama out of the same pile of superstars, a test that has serious implications for the long-term value of its business model. In theory the Signature Events are a great idea, but it’s important to remember that until we’ve witnessed a substantial shift, the Siggies are still very much in theory.

“I mean, this is — I don’t know how long these Signature Events are going to run for,” Rory McIlroy said ominously. “If it’s going to be a year, and then they’re going to look at them again and see what worked and what didn’t work.”

And goodness, what a relief. It was decades of competitive stagnation and contentment that resulted in the upheaval of the last two years. The solution to golf’s future surely isn’t to find a different kind of stagnation and contentment.

After all, the point is not that the PGA Tour has changed; it’s that the Tour is the change. What it is today and what it is tomorrow are two sides of the same shapeshifting coin. The only constants are the players … and the paydays.

McIlroy punctuated it well from the podium on Saturday afternoon, the same day he and almost all of the PGA Tour’s other stars moved one round closer to another big-money Sunday at the Genesis.

“I think for these really big events and the ones that carry a lot of meaning and history — Riviera, Memorial, Bay Hill, those sort of events — I think this week’s worked pretty well,” he said. “It would be great to have a couple extra guys still playing over the weekend, but overall I think it’s worked pretty well so far.”

Pretty well, indeed. But well enough ?

We’ll find out on Sunday in LA.

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2022-23 PGA Tour Schedule: Complete Dates, Winners, Purses

• Author: SI Golf staff

Here is the complete schedule for the 2022-23 PGA Tour season, including every major championship and the season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs in August.

We'll update this article after every tournament with the winner of each event and the total prize money won.

Here's when each of the majors will be played in 2023:

2023 majors schedule

• The Masters : Week of April 3-9 at Augusta National, Augusta, Georgia
• The PGA Championship : Week of May 15-21 at Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York
• The U.S. Open : Week of June 12-18 at Los Angeles Country Club (North Course), Los Angeles, California
• The British Open : Week of July 17-23 at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, England

Here is the schedule, which features 45 events from September 2022 through August 2023.

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The 2022-23 PGA Tour Schedule: Complete dates, winners and prize money

Date, Tournament, Course(s), Location, Champion and Purse

Sept. 12-18: Fortinet Championship, Silverado Resort and Spa (North Course), Napa, California.

Winner: Max Homa, $1,440,000 from purse of $8 million

Sept. 19-25: Presidents Cup, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

Winner: U.S., 17.5-12.5

Sept. 26- Oct. 2: Sanderson Farms Championship, The Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi

Winner: Mackenzie Hughes, $1,422,000 from a purse of $7.9 million

Oct. 3-9: Shriners Children's Open TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada

Winner: Tom Kim, $1,440,000 from a purse of $8 million

Oct. 10-16: Zozo Championship, Narashino Country Club, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Winner: Keegan Bradley, $1,980,000 from a purse of $11 million

Oct. 17-23: The CJ Cup in South Carolina, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina

Winner: Rory McIlroy, $1,890,000 from a purse of $10.5 million

Oct. 24-30: Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda

Winner: Seamus Power, $1,170,000 from a purse of $6.5 million

Oct. 31-Nov. 6: World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba, El Camaleón Golf Course at Mayakoba, Riviera Maya, Mexico

Winner: Russell Henley, $1,476,000 from a purse of $8.2 million

Nov. 7-13: Cadence Bank Houston Open, Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston, Texas

Winner: Tony Finau, $1,512,000 from a purse of $8.4 million

Nov. 14-20: The RSM Classic, Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course, Plantation Course), St. Simons Island, Georgia

Winner: Adam Svensson, $1,458,000 from a purse of $8.1 million

Nov. 28-Dec. 4: Hero World Challenge, Albany, Bahamas.

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $1 million from a purse of $3.5 million

Dec. 5-11: QBE Shootout at Tiburon Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples, Florida

Winners: Tom Hoge and Sahith Theegala, sharing $950,000 from a purse of $3.6 million

Jan. 2-8: Sentry Tournament of Champions, Kapalua Resort (The Plantation Course), Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii

Winner: Jon Rahm, $2.7 million from a purse of $15 million

Jan. 9-15: Sony Open in Hawaii, Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, Hawaii

Winner: Si Woo Kim, $1,422,000 from a purse of $7.9 million

Jan. 16-22: The American Express, PGA West (Stadium Course, Nicklaus Tournament Course), La Quinta Country Club, La Quinta, California

Winner: Jon Rahm, $1.44 million from a purse of $8 million

Jan. 23-29: Farmers Insurance Open (Saturday finish), Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course, North Course), San Diego, California

Winner: Max Homa, $1.566 million from a purse of $8.7 million

Jan. 30-Feb. 5: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course), Pebble Beach, California

Winner: Justin Rose, $1.62 million from a purse of $9 million

Feb. 6-12: Waste Management Phoenix Open, TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), Scottsdale, Arizona

Winner: Scottie Scheffler, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Feb. 13-19: The Genesis Invitational, The Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California

Winner: Jon Rahm, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Feb. 20-26: The Honda Classic, PGA National Resort and Spa (The Champion), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Winner: Chris Kirk, $1.512 million from a purse of $8.4 million

Feb. 27-March 5: Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, Florida

Winner: Kurt Kitayama, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Feb. 27-March 5: Puerto Rico Open, Grand Reserve Country Club, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

Winner: Nico Echavarria, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

March 6-12: The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass (The Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Winner: Scottie Scheffler, $4,500,000 from a purse of $25 million

March 13-19: Valspar Championship, Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course), Palm Harbor, Florida

Winner: Taylor Moore, $1,458,000 from a purse of $8.1 million

March 20-26: World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, Austin Country Club, Austin, Texas

Winner: Sam Burns, $3,500,000 from a purse of $20 million

March 20-26: Corales Puntacana Championship, Puntacana Resort and Club (Corales Golf Course), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Winner: Matt Wallace, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

March 27-April 2: Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio (The Oaks Course), San Antonio, Texas

Winner: Corey Conners, $1,602,000 from a purse of $8.9 million

April 3-9: Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia

Winner: Jon Rahm, $3,240,000 from a purse of $18 million

April 10-16: RBC Heritage, Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Winner: Matt Fitzpatrick, $3,600,000 from a purse of $20 million

April 17-23: Zurich Classic of New Orleans, TPC Louisiana, Avondale, Louisiana

Winners: Nick Hardy and Davis Riley share $2,485,400 from a purse of $8.6 million

April 24-30: Mexico Open, Vidanta Vallarta, Vallarta, Mexico

Winner: Tony Finau, $1,386,000 from a purse of $7.7 million

May 1-7: Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

Winner: Wyndham Clark, $3,600,000 from a purse of $20 million

May 8-14: AT&T Byron Nelson, TPC Craig Ranch, McKinney, Texas

Winner: Jason Day, $1,710,000 from a purse of $9.5 million

May 15-21: PGA Championship, Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York

Winner: Brooks Koepka, $3,150,000 from a purse of $17.5 million

May 22-28: Charles Schwab Challenge, Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas

Winner: Emiliano Grillo, $1,566,000 from a purse of $8.7 million

May 29-June 4: the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $3,600,000 from a purse of $20 million

June 5-11: RBC Canadian Open, Oakdale Golf and Country Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Winner: Nick Taylor, $1,620,000 from a purse of $9 million

June 13-19: U.S. Open, Los Angeles Country Club (North Course), Los Angeles, California

June 26-29: Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut

Winner: Keegan Bradley, $3,600,000 million from a purse of $20 million

June 26-July 2: Rocket Mortgage Classic, Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Michigan

Winner: Rickie Fowler, $1,584,000 from a purse of $8.8 million

July 3-9: John Deere Classic, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Illinois

Winner: Sepp Straka, $1,332,000 from a purse of $7.4 million

July 10-16: Genesis Scottish Open, Renaissance Club, North Berwick Scotland

Winner: Rory McIlroy, $1,575,000 from a purse of $9 million

July 10-16: Barbasol Championship, Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course), Nicholasville, Kentucky

Winner: Vincent Norrman, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

July 17-23: The British Open, Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, England

Winner: Brian Harman, $3,000,000 from a purse of $16.5 million

July 17-23: Barracuda Championship, Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood), Truckee, California

Winner: Akshay Bhatia, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

July 24-30: 3M Open, TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota

Winner: Lee Hodges, $1,404,000 from a purse of $7.8 million

July 31-Aug. 6: Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina

Winner: Lucas Glover, $1,368,000 from a purse of $7.6 million

2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Aug. 7-13: FedEx St. Jude Championship, TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee

Winner: Lucas Glover, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Aug. 14-20: BMW Championship, Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course), Olympia Fields, Illinois

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Aug. 21-27: Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $18 million from a purse of $75 million

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Not unlike how many of the horses arrive for the annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs some 15 miles to its west, Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, is poised to host numerous thoroughbreds in top form for the 106th running of the PGA Championship.

A review of the course and other information is below the ranking of those projected to contend.

It’d be a curious opinion to want the sport’s top talents to descend at the second major of 2024 in form other than the current, so it’s a timely bonus that Valhalla will give all 156 entrants a terrific opportunity to stretch and showcase what they got.

This is the fourth edition of the PGA Championship on the Jack Nicklaus design. After testing as a par 72 in 1996 and 2000, it’s been a par 71 since Rory McIlroy prevailed in 2014. The field’s average that week was a modest 71.539, but that’s when the tournament was contested in August.

It’s late enough in the growing season this year for Valhalla to present its fully formed self, but it does so now capable of extending to 7,609 yards. That’s 151 yards longer than a decade ago, but the expectation is that it will again provide a fair and consistently strong exam. While visually striking in places, Valhalla’s setup as a proper stage is the narrative. The prepared will be rewarded on an exceptionally balanced course.

Because it’s a Nicklaus design, long hitters will be licking their chops off tees. With five par 4s tipping at 484 yards or longer piggybacking three par 5s, the driver will be a busy stick. Yet, in 2014, Valhalla surrendered just 278 yards on average in distance of all drives. That was 11th-lowest of all courses measured that season and respectful of the fact that greens average only 5,000 square feet. The formula favors course management over all alternatives. This is major, after all.

But make no mistake, confident drivers will feast. McIlroy prevailed in 2014 at 16-under 268 and was among five with four rounds in the 60s. He led the field in distance of all drives, total driving, Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee and par-4 scoring.

McIlroy is among the 34 in this week’s field who competed here 10 years ago. The then-new, heat-tolerant T-1 bentgrass on the greens held its own in the muggy conditions at the time. It was a big deal because it was the first time the strain hosted a major. The darker-green surface is ready to touch 13 feet on the Stimpmeter this week; that is, if it wasn’t subject to persistent rain immediately in advance of and during the tournament.

There’s at least a slight risk of precipitation every day, although Thursday and Sunday are the early clubhouse leaders for cooperative conditions. Wind won’t be a significant factor at any time, so it’ll simply be a matter of dodging lightning and cloudbursts. Daytime highs might not hit 80 degrees until Saturday. Even with a warmup for the finale, it won’t be sweltering. If it’s soft, fairways will play wider but a blend of bluegrass and fescue trimmed to four inches will grab wayward strikes on either side.

In addition to a lifetime exemption into the tournament, the winner of the Wanamaker trophy will receive exemptions into the next five editions of each of the other three majors. He’ll also secure spots in the last two Signature Events of 2024 and the 2025 editions of The Sentry and THE PLAYERS Championship. His PGA TOUR membership exemption also will extend to the maximum five seasons through 2029.

ROB BOLTON’S SCHEDULE

• MONDAY : Power Rankings
• TUESDAY *: Sleepers
• WEDNESDAY : Golfbet Insider
• FRIDAY : Medical Extensions
• SUNDAY : Points and Payouts; Qualifiers; Reshuffle

*Rob is a member of the panel for PGATOUR.COM’s Expert Picks for PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf, which also publishes on Tuesday.

Rob Bolton is a Golfbet columnist for the PGA TOUR. The Chicagoland native has been playing fantasy golf since 1994, so he was just waiting for the Internet to catch up with him. Follow Rob Bolton on Twitter .

The five best bets to win this year’s PGA Championship

To identify PGA Championship contenders, we can combine current form with what we know about this year’s course, Valhalla in Louisville.

Predicting the PGA Championship winner is a much different beast than doing so for the Masters , considering that Augusta National hosts that tournament every year and thus has some extremely sticky course history (i.e., certain types of golfers seem to play well there every year). Because the PGA Championship is played on a different track each year, course history is generally thrown out the window, though this year’s host, Valhalla in Louisville, has hosted the tournament three times, most recently in 2014, and a number of golfers in this year’s field were among the participants 10 years ago.

So we’re left to rely a whole lot on current form, which has proved to be a good predictor for PGA Championship success. We’ll combine that with what we know about the course to try to identify a winner.

Here are a few aspects I’m considering:

• The PGA Championship is the only major championship that does not extend invitations to amateur players, though 20 spots are set aside for PGA club professionals. Therefore, the tournament annually garners the highest strength-of-field rating as compiled by the Official World Golf Ranking. Though the PGA has produced some surprise winners in the past 15 years — Jimmy Walker, Jason Dufner and Y.E. Yang say hello — it has become increasingly unlikely that an unheralded player will topple the world’s greats.
• As with all majors, the PGA Championship winner almost always enters in great form: 17 of the past 18 champions made the cut in their previous tournament, and the one exception — Brooks Koepka last year — plays on a LIV Golf circuit that does not have cut lines. Three of those 18 champions were coming off a win, nine finished in the top five in their previous outing (including Koepka last year), and all but two finished in the top 20 in their most recent event.
• Of the past 20 PGA Championship winners, 15 had won a tournament in the same calendar year. Nineteen had at least three top-10 finishes, and all 20 had at least one top-20 finish in the same calendar year (although the PGA Championship used to fall later in the year, allowing for more time to accomplish such feats).
• Five of the past six PGA Championship winners already had a major win on their résumés. The one who didn’t — Collin Morikawa in 2020 — has since won another major (the 2021 British Open).
• This is another issue of small sample size, but in the four PGA Championships played in May since 2019, three of the winners also finished in the top 10 in that year’s Masters. (Phil Mickelson, the outlier in 2021, finished tied for 21st at Augusta that year.) This year’s Masters top 10: Scottie Scheffler, Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith, Xander Schauffele, Tyrrell Hatton, Cameron Young and Will Zalatoris.

After some tinkering, Valhalla will play long — 151 yards longer than in 2014 and the third-longest course among PGA Tour venues this year. It also should be firm and fast, unless it rains a whole lot to take the starch out of the greens, as happened 10 years ago. The rough will be up, too. However, low scores were predominant the past two times Valhalla hosted the PGA Championship. In 2014, when Rory McIlroy won the tournament at 16 under par, there were 179 rounds below par, fourth most in tournament history, and 58 players finished under par, with 14 of them at least 10 under. In 2000, Tiger Woods and Bob May set what was then the PGA Championship stroke-play record at 18 under before Woods won in a playoff.

Valhalla, which was designed by Jack Nicklaus , also has a number of quirks ( some would say to its detriment ). The par-5 seventh hole features a split fairway, which allegedly rewards drives that choose the riskier left path. There’s also an elevated island green at the par-4 13th (island greens on par-4s are relatively rare) and a horseshoe-shaped green at the finishing hole.

In general, we’re looking for big hitters (McIlroy ranked second in driving distance when he won at Valhalla in 2014) and — considering the course’s length — players who are accurate with long irons on their second shots.

Here are a few bets worth considering at this year’s PGA Championship. All odds taken Wednesday morning from DraftKings Sportsbook .

Scottie Scheffler (+400)

We were on the world No. 1 to win the Masters , which he did, for a second time. Picking Scheffler to win a golf tournament kind of feels like cheating at this point — he followed up his win at Augusta with another one the next weekend and has won four of his past five starts, with the one miss a tie for second — but until someone takes him down, he needs your consideration, even at semi-ridiculous odds. The one caveat this week is that Scheffler’s wife just gave birth to their first child , so who knows where his mind is. Still, Scheffler doesn’t seem to get fazed by much.

Rory McIlroy (+750)

While Scheffler was on baby watch, McIlroy filled the void with two wins in three weeks, one in a team event with Shane Lowry and another when he shredded Quail Hollow’s back nine to race past Xander Schauffele on Sunday at the Wells Fargo. And now you’re telling me he gets to play an arguably easier course, and one at which he already has won? If Scheffler is the world’s best golfer at the moment, McIlroy is the one with the most momentum, and he has to be a consideration at Valhalla.

Brooks Koepka (+1600)

The defending tournament champion enters in fine form, having won the most recent LIV Golf event in Singapore earlier this month and tied for ninth in the tournament that preceded it. Koepka’s Grand Slam record is absurd: In 39 major championship appearances, he has five wins (three at the PGA), four second-place finishes and nine other top-10s. Koepka hits the ball a mile, and it’s hard not to like his chances this week.

Bryson DeChambeau (+2800)

DeChambeau no longer is cartoonishly muscle-bound, but he still has plenty of power off the tee — he leads LIV in driving distance — which should serve him well here. DeChambeau has finished in the top eight in three of the past six majors, including at this year’s Masters (at a course where he previously never played well), and he has four top-10s on the LIV circuit this season. Plus, his 2020 U.S. Open win was at Winged Foot , which might prove to be a favorable comp to Valhalla.

Max Homa (+3500)

Three of Homa’s six PGA Tour wins have come on long, upper-echelon courses (Quail Hollow, Riviera and Torrey Pines). And, thanks to a tie for 10th at last year’s British Open and a tie for third at this year’s Masters, he finally has shaken his reputation as a guy who never shows up at majors. Homa trailed just two players in strokes gained: approach on his way to a tie for eighth last weekend at the Wells Fargo, one of three top-eight performances over his past six tournaments.

Sepp Straka (+8000)

Straka isn’t the longest off the tee, but he’s one of the most accurate, which should serve him well if the rough is an issue at Valhalla. The Austrian with the Southern accent (he moved to Georgia at 14) has quietly been putting together a solid season, with top-16 finishes in five of his past six tournaments, and he’s becoming quite the big-game hunter in majors: He tied for seventh at last year’s PGA, tied for second at last year’s British Open and tied for 16th at this year’s Masters.

Taylor Pendrith (+18000)

Pendrith, who ranks ninth on the PGA Tour in driving distance, has had a weird year. He scored his first PGA Tour win at the Byron Nelson a few weeks ago — on a TPC Craig Ranch course that matches Valhalla in length — and has four other top-11 finishes, two of them at elite-field events (the Farmers Insurance Open in January and the Wells Fargo). But he also missed five of six cuts in one stretch, his hopes doomed by inaccuracy off the tee and grim approach play. If the Canadian can show consistency, he could be worth a look down the odds board, or as a top-10 or top-20 play. Pendrith was never really in contention at the Wells Fargo — it was a two-man race between McIlroy and Schauffele — but he finished a respectable 10th, and there’s no reason for his odds this week to be the same neighborhood as those of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, who probably have no shot.

As of Wednesday morning, here were the odds to win the PGA Championship of the leading contenders, according to DraftKings Sportsbook:

• Scottie Scheffler: +400
• Rory McIlroy: +750
• Xander Schauffele: +1400
• Jon Rahm: +1600
• Brooks Koepka: +1600
• Ludvig Aberg: +2200
• Bryson DeChambeau: +2800
• Collin Morikawa: +3000
• Max Homa: +3500
• Joaquín Niemann: +3500
• Wyndham Clark: +4000
• Viktor Hovland: +4000
• Patrick Cantlay: +4000
• Cameron Smith: +4500

PGA Championship betting guide: 7 picks our expert loves this week

Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour gambling-tips column, featuring picks from GOLF.com's expert prognosticator Brady Kannon. A seasoned golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is a regular guest on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio network devoted to sports and sport betting. You can follow on Twitter at  @LasVegasGolfer , and you can read his picks below for the PGA Championship, which gets underway Thursday in Louisville, Ky. Along with Kannon's recommended plays, you'll also see data from Chirp,  a free-to-play mobile platform  that features a range of games with enticing prizes, giving fans all kinds of ways to engage in the action without risking any money.

The pieces of golf’s puzzle all seem to be falling into a nice arrangement as we head into the second major championship of the season, the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.

World No. 1, Scottie Scheffler and wife Meredith have welcomed their first child into the world. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy has won in two straight starts and arrives at the same golf course at which he won the PGA Championship in 2014 (when he also came in off two consecutive victories). Three-time PGA Championship winner and the defending champion, Brooks Koepka , arrives off a victory in his last start in Singapore. No. 3 in the OWGR, Xander Schauffele , comes in having let go of a 54-hole lead in a Signature Event for the second time this season, surrendering those two leads by the way, to Scheffler (The Players) and McIlroy (Wells Fargo). And then there’s World No. 5 Jon Rahm, who arrives having finished top 10 in each of the seven LIV events this season.

On top of those storylines, we have the greatest field of players assembled we’ve seen this season. While there are 20 PGA Club Professionals in the mix, there are no amateurs in the field, and there are 16 members of the LIV Golf circuit competing. In total, 156 players will tee it up on Thursday at this 7,609-yard par-71 Jack Nicklaus design for what will be Valhalla’s fourth PGA Championship and first in a decade. The top 70 players and ties make the cut.

The golf course has been lengthened by roughly 150 yards versus what it was in 2014 when McIlroy held off Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler for the win. Given the natural trajectory of technology and everything else, an average increase of 8 yards per hole means this golf course is basically unchanged in length from where it was 10 years ago. Quail Hollow Club was an excellent tune-up last week, as Valhalla too will require a driver-heavy approach, and length off the tee is a big first step toward success. As it was last week at the Wells Fargo, Total Driving (Length plus Accuracy) is a good skill set to have here in Louisville. If you look at the top 10 on that leaderboard from Valhalla in 2014, nearly every single player flourished in driving distance and putting.

Zoysiagrass makes up what are wide, sometimes mounded, oftentimes tree-lined fairways bordered by thick, four-inch rough. The greens are smaller than Tour average and relatively flat, bentgrass surfaces. Most of the approach shots this week will fall into a 175-200+ yard window, and while these small greens will be missed in regulation - making scrambling a relevant necessity - Strokes Gained: Around the Green should not be incredibly difficult for the better players in this field.

I looked at SG: Approach, SG: Par-4s (450-500 yards) and Bogey Avoidance. I also looked at major championship history and recent form. It seems that more so than any other major, the PGA Championship rewards players that arrive playing well. Of the last 18 PGA Championship winners, 16 of them finished in the top 25 in their last start. Also, the last 12 PGA Championship winners all made the cut at the Masters. Note that 2018 winner, Koepka, did not play the Masters that year and 2020 is an exception as the Masters did not precede the PGA due to Covid. Since moving to May in 2019, the average finishing position at the Masters was eighth for the eventual PGA champion.

The top eight from this year’s Masters were: Scheffler, Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, Bryson DeChambeau, Cam Smith and Schauffele.

For comp courses this week, it is a bit of a mixed bag. Torrey Pines, Bay Hill and Quail Hollow are all good examples where Total Driving is a key component. Harding Park, Winged Foot and Olympia Fields are relatable championship venues. Bellerive, site of the 2018 PGA Championship, also features the combination of Zoysiagrass fairways and bentgrass greens. Muirfield Village and the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West (American Express) are Jack Nicklaus designs that are also worthy of our attention for comparison sake.

One more thing before we dive into the selections, and that is the weather. There has been quite a bit of rain in the Louisville, Ky., area leading up to this tournament and it appears that will continue for the first couple of rounds. I believe this golf course will be on the softer-side, extending the advantage for the longer hitters and making that thick rough even more difficult – again, especially for the shorter hitters.

It was a solid week for the column last week with half of our selections cashing a top-20 finish. This week, I will again play for both the outright win and a top-20 finish, but on a couple of the shorter shots, we’ll upgrade to a top-10 finish instead.

PGA Championship betting guide: 7 picks we love

Xander schauffele (14-1).

It takes a leap of faith, doesn’t it? I mentioned earlier, we have seen Schauffele twice lose the 54-hole lead this season, at both The Players Championship and last week’s Wells Fargo Championship. But he remains a top-five player in the world and has the skill set for this golf course. He is sixth on Tour in Total Driving and over the last 24 rounds ranks No. 1 in this field for Hole Proximity from 200+ yards. He is also second in Bogey Avoidance, 15th in SG: Approach and 17th for SG: Putting (bentgrass). I too have reservations about his ability to close and will add the aforementioned top-10 finish bet on Schauffele, but there are a couple of factors here that have me going down this road. First, there aren’t any question marks about the game, the correlated courses, his record in major championships, etc. But secondly, I believe the price is very fair - and the timing could be right when everyone in the world (it seems) has given up on this guy after falling to McIlroy last week. While everyone else is sitting down on Schauffele, I’m going to stand up. It seems one thing is for sure and that is that he will have another excellent chance to win again this week, and I believe his chances of actually getting it all the way home are better than 14-1.

Brooks Koepka (14-1)

Two weeks ago following his LIV win in Singapore, I did not want to join the masses in running to the window to bet on Koepka at the PGA. Having a knee-jerk reaction can often lead to trouble in sports betting. But after grinding over all of the numbers, trends and history, it’s very difficult to not include this man on one’s card. Not only for a major but especially for a PGA Championship, a tournament he’s won three times already. Koepka has two wins and a fourth-place finish at the U.S. Open. He has four top-10 finishes at the Open Championship. He’s been runner-up twice at the Masters and, in addition to the three Wanamaker Trophies, he has three other top-five finishes at the PGA Championship. It is worth noting that Koepka has finished third, runner-up twice, and won at TPC Southwind, another course featuring Zoysiagrass fairways, which is also the case at Sentosa Golf Club, where he just won in Singapore. I found Koepka at Even Money (+100) for a top-20 finish. Any number worse than that, I would go with a plus price on a top 10.

Bryson DeChambeau (31-1)

DeChambeau hasn’t made many of my cards for majors in the past but now that his career has matured a bit, we can start to see his results become more than just a trend. He’s won a U.S. Open, has finished fourth twice at the PGA, top 10 at the Open Championship and is coming off his best-ever at the Masters, a sixth-place finish. He has also won at Muirfield Village. Over the last 24 rounds, DeChambeau is second in this field for Driving Distance and is No. 1 on the par-4s measuring 450-500 yards. He’s 24th in Bogey Avoidance and 34th in SG: Putting (bentgrass). His last two starts on the LIV circuit were very pedestrian but prior to that he put together four top-10 finishes in the season’s first five events. Like Schauffele and Koepka, DeChambeau too has that rare combination of tremendous length and an excellent putting stroke - a proven winning combination at Valhalla.

Collin Morikawa (32-1)

Morikawa is not considered a bomber but he still averaged just a tick under 300 yards off the tee last week in Charlotte, where he finished 16th. He ranks 49th on Tour in Total Driving, mostly due to his incredible accuracy; he ranked second on Tour and second in the field last week for Driving Accuracy. He has an eighth-place finish at the PGA Championship and was a winner at Harding Park in 2020. He has two top-five finishes at U.S. Opens, a win at the Open Championship and has finished top 10 at the Masters three times, most recently taking third back in April. The putting for Morikawa has been markedly improved recently as well, gaining strokes with the flatstick in each of his last three stroke-play starts. He ranks 12th on Tour in One-Putt Percentage and has won three times on Jack Nicklaus-designed courses. He also won the Zozo Championship at Narashino Country Club in October 2023, a course that also features Zoysiagrass fairways. He checks quite a few boxes this week and is obviously not one to be taken lightly in major championships.

Joaquin Niemann (40-1)

Niemann has a third- and a sixth-place finish at the Memorial, staged at Nicklaus’ Muirfield Village. His best work with the putter has come on bentgrass greens and he’s ranked seventh on the LIV circuit for putting average. He is also second on LIV in both Greens in Regulation and Driving Distance. He has two LIV victories and four top-10 finishes in just seven events, including a seventh-place finish in his last start in Singapore. Niemann also finished third at Olympia Fields in the 2020 BMW Championship, has a sixth-place finish at Torrey Pines and finished 18th at Quail Hollow in 2021. But any time Scottie Scheffler is in the field, he’s the man to beat. And I believe with their “A-games” that Niemann, DeChambeau and Koepka are all capable of doing so. Maybe it is easier coming from LIV where one is not used to getting beat by Scheffler every week?

Will Zalatoris (57-1)

I was pleasantly surprised by this price until I woke up on Monday morning and saw Zalatoris being listed even higher, anywhere from 60/1 to 90/1. I have to believe this stems from his finish last week at the Wells Fargo Championship, where he started off beautifully but shot 80 on Sunday and ultimately finished 60th. It doesn’t fit our top-25 finish in one’s last start trend, but I still have confidence in a young man who has been a machine in majors. Last week was the only blip this season as far as not having a strong finish in “Big Boy” events: 13th at Torrey Pines, runner-up at the Genesis Invitational, fourth at Bay Hill and ninth at the Masters. Zalatoris, in fact, has three top-10s at the Masters, a sixth and a runner-up at the U.S. Open and a runner-up and an eighth-place finish at the PGA Championship. His lone PGA Tour win came at the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind, a course that features Zoysiagrass fairways. He’s finished fifth at the Memorial, second and seventh (and 13th) at Torrey Pines, 10th (and fourth) at Bay Hill and ranks 28th on Tour in Total Driving.

Sepp Straka (125-1)

I’ve seen this price come down to as low as 80-1 but I’m still OK with anything at 100-1 or better and, of course, a top-20 finish. This is our real long shot of the week but I definitely believe it is a worthy play. Straka was seventh last year at Oak Hill at the PGA Championship, another beast of a golf course that relied heavily on Driving Distance. Straka, like Morikawa and Zalatoris, is not a bomber but is deadly accurate off the tee, ranking third on Tour in Driving Accuracy. He’s finished 16th or better in five of his last six starts on Tour, including a 16th at the Masters and an eighth-place finish last week at Quail Hollow. Straka finished runner-up at last year’s Open Championship, has a 16th and a 13th at Torrey Pines and has a win on a Jack Nicklaus design, the 2022 Honda Classic at PGA National. It was also on those Zoysiagrass fairways at TPC Southwind where Straka lost in a playoff to Zalatoris in 2022. I believe it also helps that he contributed to a team win last fall in the Ryder Cup for Team Europe. In his relatively young career, he has shown he can compete on the biggest stages and seems to be only getting progressively better.

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2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf rankings, picks, strategy: Back Wyndham Clark, avoid Patrick Cantlay

Eric cohen locked in his pga tour fantasy golf rankings, picks and lineups for the pga championship 2024 at valhalla golf club.

The 2024 PGA Championship will begin on Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville and Justin Thomas will have a home field advantage as he seeks his third PGA Championship victory. Thomas was raised in Louisville and was recently named one of the city's "Hometown Heroes" with a 60-foot banner unfurled off the side of a building he used to drive by on the way to Saint Xavier high school. The 31-year-old is a 15-time PGA Tour winner who won this event in 2017 and 2022. Thomas is 40-1 in the latest 2024 PGA Championship odds, but is he a sneaky addition to your 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf lineups given his penchant for this event? Meanwhile, Scottie Scheffler is the 3-1 favorite and will be sky-high in the 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf rankings after winning four of the last five tournaments he's played. Before making any 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf picks, you have to see the PGA Championship fantasy golf rankings from SportsLine handicapper Eric Cohen .

Cohen is an avid golf bettor who correctly predicted the pre-tournament outright winner of the 2024 Masters (Scottie Scheffler, +350), Players Championship (Scheffler +550), 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (Rickie Fowler +1400), 2023 PGA Championship (Brooks Koepka +2000), 2023 Honda Classic (Chris Kirk +3500), 2022 Open Championship (Cameron Smith +2200), 2022 U.S. Open (Matt Fitzpatrick +2500), and 2022 Phoenix Open (Scheffler's first career victory at +2800).

Cohen is a contributor to SportsLine's YouTube shows including "Early Edge" and is the host of "The Early Wedge" golf show. Anyone who has followed Cohen's predictions has made positive gains on their golf picks.

Now, Cohen has ranked his top golfers for the 2024 PGA Championship.  Cohen's picks are only available at SportsLine .

2024 PGA Championship expert picks

For the PGA Championship 2024, Cohen is backing the 2023 U.S. Open winner Wyndham Clark (+1600). Clark had a rough showing at last weekend's Wells Fargo Championship, finishing T-47, but the 30-year-old finished T-3 at the RBC Heritage the week before. Clark has three top-three finishes over his last six tournaments, including finishing second at the Arnold Palmer invitation and T-2 at The Players Championship in back-to-back weekends in March. Only Scheffler, the world's No. 1 golfer, had better scores than Clark in those two March tournaments.

The 2024 PGA Championship will only be Clark's ninth career major and he already has a major title to his resume. Clark won last year's U.S. Open, so he's proven capable of excelling under the pressure of playing in majors. Clark is third in the FedEx Cup standings this year with four top-10 finishes over 11 events, including winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February, and he's fourth on the PGA Tour in total strokes gained this season.

On the other hand, Cohen is fading Patrick Cantlay at +2200. Cantlay is an eight-time PGA Tour winner and No. 8 in the Official World Golf Ranking after a third-place finish at the RBC Heritage. However, he's largely struggled in majors, finishing top-10 in four of his 28 career starts.

"For as good of a player as Cantlay is, the fact that he hasn't registered a top-five at a major since 2019 is astounding. I just can't vouch for him to finish much higher than barely inside the top 10 with the way his game has been inconsistent this season," Cohen told SportsLine.  See all of Cohen's PGA Championship picks at SportsLine . 

How to set 2024 PGA Championship Fantasy golf lineups

For this week, Cohen is backing several underdogs in his 2024 PGA Championship fantasy golf picks, including a triple-digit longshot who "performed above average in all statistical categories" at this event last year and could help spice up your Fantasy golf lineups.  See who it is, and get all of Cohen's fantasy golf picks, at SportsLine . 

Who wins PGA Championship 2024, and who are the top players to target for your PGA fantasy golf picks?  Visit SportsLine now to get Eric Cohen's fantasy golf rankings, all from the fantasy expert who has called seven outright winners since 2022 , and find out.

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Why Are There 2 PGA Tour Events This Week?

The PGA Tour is set for a monster week as 27 of the top 30 golfers in the world are set to tee it up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. The only three not in this stacked field are No. 5 Cameron Smith, No. 23 Joaquin Niemann, and No. 27 Abraham Ancer, all of whom are now members of the LIV Golf roster.

One of two consecutive elevated events, the other being next week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, the Arnold Palmer Invitational has long been one of the best and most exciting tournaments on the golf calendar.

However, as 120 of the world’s best players attempt to tame Bay Hill, another 120 will tee it up at Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, although the field for the latter certainly isn’t as prominent.

So why exactly are there two PGA Tour events being played this week?

Why are there two PGA Tour events this week?

This week’s Puerto Rico Open is what’s known on the PGA Tour as an alternate event, one of four such tournaments on the 2022-23 schedule. The others will be played opposite the WGC-Match Play (Corales Puntacana Championship), the Genesis Scottish Open (Barbasol Championship), which is co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, and The Open Championship (Barracuda Championship).

So what exactly is an alternate event?

Simply and bluntly put, PGA Tour alternate events are tournaments with weaker fields full of younger and lower-ranked players vying for fewer FedEx Cup points and smaller purses.

For instance, the winner this week at Bay Hill will receive 550 FedEx Cup points and the $3.6 million winner’s share of an overall $20 million purse.

The winner of the Puerto Rico Open receives 300 FedEx Cup points and the $684,000 winner’s share of the overall $3.8 million purse.

But there’s still plenty of value to an alternate event, the most significant being that the winner receives a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour, which is obviously a big deal. Plus, these events give lesser-known players a better shot at that first victory.

Prime examples are Tony Finau and Viktor Hovland, both of whom took their first PGA Tour trophy at the Puerto Rico Open, Finau in 2016 and Hovland in 2020.

So that’s why there are two PGA Tour events running this week. Who knows? Perhaps this week’s winner in Puerto Rico will get a shot at Bay Hill a year from now.

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Who can win the PGA Championship? Ranking all 156 golfers in the field

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The strongest field in men's professional golf -- including each of the top 100 players in the Official World Golf Ranking -- heads to Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, this week for the PGA Championship, the season's second major.

There will be plenty of storylines, including the return of world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler , who took a couple of weeks off before the birth of his first child, and defending champion Brooks Koepka , who has been competing in the LIV Golf League.

Scheffler, Koepka and world No. 2 golfer Rory McIlroy each won in their last starts, and they'll be among the favorites to lift the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. McIlroy, who last won a major championship at the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla, picked up his 26th PGA Tour victory at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina.

PGA professional Michael Block and Tiger Woods will also be there.

Here's a look at the 156 golfers in the field, from the contenders to the dark horses at Valhalla.

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