PGA Championship Bets to Win: Best Picks to Grab Wanamaker Trophy at Quail Hollow Club

Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy, and Scottie Scheffler headline the 156-man field participating at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte this week for the season's second major, which started Thursday morning.

Our PGA Championship picks to win feature one of the aforementioned juggernauts. 

McIlroy goes for his fifth win at Quail Hollow Club after completing the career grand slam with his recent Masters victory. Xander Schauffele, who hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy last year, is a back-to-back runner-up at Quail Hollow Club, and Justin Thomas won the PGA Championship the last time occurred at the hallowed Charlotte course. 

Scheffler and McIlroy (+500) are the consensus betting favorites via updated PGA Championship odds. Aside from those giants of the sport, is there anyone else who offers premium value? Check out our best PGA Championship outright picks to find out. 

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🎯 Rory McIlroy to win the PGA Championship (+500 via BetMGM)
🎯 Brooks Koepka to win the PGA Championship (+4500 via BetMGM)
🎯 Patrick Cantlay to win the PGA Championship (+4500 via DraftKings)

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💰 PGA Championship outright picks

Here are my best outright picks to win this week's PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte.

🍀 Rory McIlroy

👉 Best odds: +500 via BetMGM ($10 bet pays $50 profit) | Implied win probability: 16.67%

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If you were to design a golf course specifically for McIlroy to showcase his skill set, it would look a lot like Quail Hollow. Demanding an abundance of length off the tee (and everywhere else) and a sharp iron game, this venue is tailor-made to McIlroy.

And he's taken advantage of that throughout his career. He's won four PGA Tour events at Quail Hollow, including last year's Wells Fargo Championship. Nobody is close to matching his 2.87 true strokes gained on the field per round across 50 career rounds played at this venue.

Couple the career success with McIlroy's recent Masters-winning form and the evaporation of the pressure the Northern Irishman has long faced in majors while trying to end over a decade-long drought, and McIlroy's my easy choice to win the 2025 PGA Championship with a winning $10 bet returning a profit of $50.

💪 Brooks Koepka

👉 Best odds: +4500 via BetMGM ($10 bet pays $450 profit) | Implied win probability: 2.17%

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Koepka will make his third professional appearance at Quail Hollow Club this week. He finished T-13 in the 2017 PGA Championship and T-42 in the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship before leaving for the LIV Golf Invitational Series. He missed the cut in the Masters, thanks to a dismal performance on his 36th hole, and he finished T-17 or worse in five of seven LIV events this year.

However, Koepka is a five-time major champion, including three Wanamaker Trophies. He watched from home as McIlroy and DeChambeau went head-to-head in the final round of the Masters, and that should spark some motivation for the second major of the year.

The +4500 odds from BetMGM are far too long, and he should be priced closer to the +3000 odds at DraftKings which represent an implied win probability of 3.23%.

🎯 Patrick Cantlay

👉 Best odds: +4500 via DraftKings ($10 bet pays $450 profit) | Implied win probability: 2.17%

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Cantlay has (famously) never won a major. He also has a spotty history at Quail Hollow Club that includes a best finish of just T-21 in the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship and a T-33 showing in the 2017 PGA Championship. He hasn't won on the PGA Tour since August 2022, and he has just two top-10 finishes in eight career appearances in the PGA Championship.

That all said, he's averaging more strokes gained off the tee than McIlroy across their respective last 16 measured rounds with vastly superior accuracy. His 0.91 strokes gained: approach over that time rank 12th among qualified golfers entering the PGA Championship. 

He's 14th in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) following a T-4 finish in last week's Truist Championship Signature Event, and he hasn't missed a cut since early last June. The last time he failed to make the weekend before that was the 2023 Scottish Open.

He can be bet at odds as long as +360 for a top-10 finish this week, but I'll also sprinkle on an outright ticket with DraftKings' +4500 odds vastly superior to the +3300 odds found elsewhere.

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👀 PGA Championship betting insights

Here is how the betting action on the PGA Championship is coming in at BetMGM:

Line movement:

Rory McIlroy: +900 ➡️ +500
Bryson DeChambeau: +2200 ➡️ +850
Justin Thomas: +4000 ➡️ +1800

🏆 2025 PGA Championship info

📅 When: Thursday, May 15 - Sunday, May 18
⛳ Where: Quail Hollow Club (Charlotte, N.C)
📺 How to watch: CBS and ESPN
🏆 Defending champion: Xander Schauffele
💰 Favorite: Scottie Scheffler (+500 via BetMGM)

📊 PGA Championship odds to win

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.

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