The 108th edition of the PGA Championship is about to get underway as the best in the world gather at Aronimink for the year's second major.
Aronimink Golf Club (Par-70, 7,394 yards), an original Donald Ross design located just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will host the PGA Championship for a second time and for the first time since 1962, when Gary Player edged Bob Goalby en route to winning the major's 44th edition. The historic venue also hosted the 1977 U.S. Amateur and the 2003 Senior PGA Championship, and was the site of the PGA Tour's 2018 BMW Championship, won by Keegan Bradley.
Defending champion Scottie Scheffler will look to claim his fifth major championship and become the first player to win back-to-back Wanamakers since Brooks Koepka did so in 2018 and 2019. Following a thrilling Masters, Rory McIlroy will tee it up at Aronimink looking for a second consecutive major win in 2026 after winning a second consecutive green jacket last month at Augusta.
Both Scheffler and McIlroy lead a star-studded 156-man field who are set to compete for the year's second major. Will Scheffler or McIlroy lift this year's Wanamaker Trophy? Or will someone else emerge from a strong chasing pack featuring big names like Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, and Collin Morikawa, to name a few.
The second major of the year is here; let's make some picks and predictions for the 2026 PGA Championship.
2026 PGA Championship picks and predictions
Top 30 pick for the PGA Championship: Aaron Rai (+265)
Aaron Rai followed a T19 result at last year's PGA Championship with a T33 finish at last year's U.S. Open at Oakmont. He has had success at other Donald Ross venues, including Sedgefield, where he won on the PGA Tour for the first time at the 2024 Wyndham Championship.
With back-to-back top-40s at the PGA Championship and two top-25 results on the PGA Tour in his last two starts, Rai could be set for another solid outing at the year's second major.
Sleeper pick for the PGA Championship: J.J. Spaun (+7400)
Last year's U.S. Open champion at Oakmont continued an excellent stretch of golf last week at Quail Hollow, where he tied for fifth. Including last week's result at the Truist Championship, Spaun has finished T25 or better in each of his last three starts coming into the PGA Championship.
A winner this year already at the Valero Texas Open, he ranks seventh in this week's field in approach over the last three months, per Data Golf, and has gained strokes with his irons dating all the way back to the Genesis Invitational in February. It's hard to say that a major champion might be being overlooked heading into a major, but Spaun just might be.
Pick to win the PGA Championship: Patrick Cantlay (+5300)
After a rough year at major championships in 2025, Cantlay got off to a good start this year when finishing tied for twelfth at The Masters last month. He has missed the cut and finished T53 in his last two starts at the PGA Championship, but did finish T9 at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill, the last time the major was hosted in the Northeast.
Including the T12 finish at Augusta, Cantlay has finished T12 or better in each of his last four starts. He ranks fifth in the field from tee to green over the last month.
Pick to win the PGA Championship: Scottie Scheffler (+385)
First in the field from tee to green and second in approach over the last month, the defending PGA Champion is threatening to go on another run. The world No. 1 comes into the PGA Championship on the back of three consecutive runner-up finishes since The Players Championship in March.
Including his win last year at Quail Hollow, Scheffler has finished T8 or better in three of his last four appearances at the PGA Championship. It's hard to find a venue that doesn't suit the world's top-ranked player, and Aronimink should play into his strengths.
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