PGA Championship Long Shots & Sleeper Picks: 3 Players With Odds Longer Than 100/1 Who Could Win

Esten McLaren highlights his three best PGA Championship long shots and sleeper picks for the season's second golf major at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte this week.
PGA Championship Long Shots & Sleeper Picks: Best Value Bets at 100/1 or Better
Pictured: Wyndham Clark lines up a putt. Photo by Bill Streicher-Imagn Images.

The PGA Championship has been relatively chalky in recent years, with the betting favorites generally performing pretty well. However, Phil Mickelson (+25000) and Jimmy Walker (+12500) stand out as recent PGA Championship long shots and sleeper picks to raise the Wanamaker Trophy.

Using Mickelson and Walker as inspiration, I'm offering up my top three PGA Championship long-shot predictions for the 2025 tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. All three selections have odds better than 100/1 to win the year's second major.

๐ŸŽฏ PGA Championship long-shot picks

Here are my favorite long-shot and sleeper picks to win the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club this week, along with their best odds from our best golf betting sites.

๐ŸŽฏ Wyndham Clark (+11000 via FanDuel)
๐ŸŽฏ Keith Mitchell (+13000 via DraftKings)
๐ŸŽฏ Niklas Norgaard (+30000 via bet365)

๐Ÿ‘‰ Don't miss the rest of our golf picks for more predictions on the 2025 PGA Championship. Follow the updated PGA Championship odds, which update in real time throughout the tournament.

๐Ÿ’ค Sleeper picks to win the 2025 PGA Championship

Here are the three sleeper picks I'm backing to win the 2025 PGA Championship, all with odds longer than +10000. Because of the long odds - and the low implied win probability - I'd recommend small bets of maybe 0.10 units on each.

๐ŸŽฏ Wyndham Clark

Best odds to win: +11000 via FanDuel ($10 pays $1,100) | Implied win probability: 0.90%
Alternate bet: Top 40 finish (+100 via Caesars)

We continue to see ridiculously long betting odds on Clark amid a season in which he has just one top-10 finish (a T-5 in the Texas Children's Houston Open) through 11 events. Despite the lack of success, he hasn't missed a cut since The American Express in January, though he withdrew from The Players Championship.

Clark won the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club two years ago with a T-47 finish last year. He enters this week in strong statistical form outside of poor iron play and 0.38 strokes lost per round on approach. He's among the longest hitters in the field and won't face much penalty here for his inaccuracy off the tee.

The former major winner is gaining strokes on and around the greens, and he should benefit from having to hit more long irons on approach, as his real weakness this season has been his short irons and wedges. I love the even-money odds for a top-40 finish as a strong hedge against the outright flier.

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๐ŸŽฏ Keith Mitchell

PGA Championship Long Shots & Sleeper Picks: Best Value Bets at 100/1 or Better
Pictured: Keith Mitchell reacts to his missed putt. Photo by Bill Streicher-Imagn Images.

Best odds to win: +13000 via DraftKings ($10 pays $1,300) | Implied win probability: 0.76%
Alternate bet: Top 20 after Round 1 (+375 via bet365)

Mitchell is best known for his first-round scoring this season, as he leads the PGA Tour with a scoring average of 66.55 through the first 18 holes of tournaments. He held the lead after Round 1 of the Truist Championship Signature Event but finished T-7, and that marked his fourth straight top-20 finish to climb back to No. 80 in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).

He returns to Quail Hollow Club after skipping last year's tournament in Charlotte. He has averaged 1.61 true strokes gained on the field per round across 16 rounds at this venue, with finishes of T-8 and T-3 in 2019 and 2021, respectively.

Mitchell's well above average in both driving distance and accuracy, and he's averaging 0.75 SG: approach over his last 20 measured rounds. 

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๐ŸŽฏ Niklas Norgaard

PGA Championship Long Shots & Sleeper Picks: Best Value Bets at 100/1 or Better
Pictured: Niklas Norgaard plays his shot from the tee. Photo by Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images.

Best odds to win: +30000 via bet365 ($10 pays $3,000) | Implied win probability: 0.33%
Alternate bet: Top Nordic player (+1300 via Caesars)

Norgaard enters the week at No. 96 in the OWGR following a T-5 finish in last week's Myrtle Beach Classic. That was easily his best result since a T-4 in the DP World Tour's season-opening Hero Dubai Desert Classic, where he tied Rory McIlroy.

The 32-year-old Denmark native will play in his first career major this week, but it couldn't come at a better venue for him. Norgaard trails only Bryson DeChambeau and McIlroy in driving distance across his last 16 measured rounds, and he'll be able to use that to his advantage at Quail Hollow without much penalty for wayward drives. That should help ease the pressure.

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๐Ÿ”ฎ PGA Championship expert picks

๐Ÿ† 2025 PGA Championship info

๐Ÿ“… When: Thursday, May 15 - Sunday, May 18
โ›ณ Where: Quail Hollow Club (Charlotte, N.C)
๐Ÿ“บ How to watch: CBS and ESPN
๐Ÿ† Defending champion: Xander Schauffele
๐Ÿ’ฐ Favorite: Scottie Scheffler (+500 via BetMGM)

๐Ÿ“Š Odds to win the PGA Championship

Our 2025 PGA Championship odds update in real time based on the odds from our best golf betting sites. The tournament begins with Round 1 on Thursday.

๐Ÿ’ฐ PGA Championship betting history

Year Name Odds (prior to Round 1) Course
2024 Xander Schauffele +1400 Valhalla Golf Club
2023 Brooks Koepka +2000 Oak Hill
2022 Justin Thomas +1600 Southern Hills
2021 Phil Mickelson +25000 Kiawah Island
2020 Collin Morikawa +3000 TPC Harding Park
2019 Brooks Koepka +1000 Bethpage Black
2018 Brooks Koepka +1800 Bellerive
2017 Justin Thomas +3500 Quail Hollow Club
2016 Jimmy Walker +12500 Baltusrol Golf Club
2015 Jason Day +1200 Whistling Straits

Historical golf odds via GolfOdds.com.

โ›ณ Golf betting odds pages

๐ŸŒ๏ธBest golf betting sites for the 2025 PGA Championship

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