Blake Davis
The second major golf tournament of the season will begin on Thursday, May 16, at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville. The 2024 PGA Championship will be the fourth held in Valhalla and previous winners include Mark Brooks (1996), Tiger Woods (2000) and Rory McIlroy (2014). Will we see another dominant superstar like Woods or McIlroy win in 2024, or will we see another unknown pro pull off a game-changing victory on the 2024 PGA Championship field like Brooks did in 1996? Scottie Scheffler has won four of the last five times he has played and is the 4-1 favorite in the 2024 PGA Championship odds after a dominant victory at Augusta.
McIlroy has 10-1 PGA Championship 2024 odds for the second major of the year, while Woods has a 125-1 long shot as he continues to play a limited schedule. Before securing your 2024 PGA Championship picks or Tiger Woods accessories, be sure to see golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been on a roll since the PGA Tour restarted in June 2020. In fact, the model has won nearly $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, winning tournament after tournament.
McClure’s model correctly predicted that Scottie Scheffler would finish atop the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit +9,000, and throughout the tournament, McClure’s best bets returned nearly $1,000.
The model also predicted that Jon Rahm would be victorious in the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model surpassed Rahm’s second major career win over the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead in the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the model’s second consecutive victory at the Masters, which also guaranteed Scheffler’s victory in 2022.
Additionally, McClure’s best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing at the top of the table 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic rankings.
This same model also hit 11 majors entering the weekend and has reached the Masters three years in a row. Anyone who followed it saw massive returns.
Now with the 2024 PGA Championship field taking shape, SportsLine has simulated the tournament 10,000 times and the results have been surprising. Visit SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.
Top 2024 PGA Championship Predictions
A big surprise: Will Zalatoris, with a 25-1 chance, has a good campaign for the title. He is a target for anyone looking for a big payday. Zalatoris is back up to 30th in the official world rankings after falling outside the top 50 while recovering from a significant back injury he suffered in 2023.
The 27-year-old won the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship for his first career PGA Tour victory and has become a fixture near the top of the leaderboard at major championships in recent years. Zalatoris has made 11 career starts in majors and has finished in the top 10 on seven occasions, including a solo second-place finish at the 2022 PGA Championship and runner-up finishes at the 2021 Masters and 2022 US Open.
The model also examined where Tiger Woods ends up. The 48-year-old is a 15-time major champion and his 82 PGA Tour victories are tied with Sam Snead for the most in tour history. However, since a car accident that caused a compound fracture and left him with arthritis in his left leg, Woods has played sparingly. He has competed just seven times around the world in the last two years and has had to withdraw from three of those events due to illness or injury.
Woods made the cut at the Masters for the 24th consecutive time last month, breaking the record for most consecutive cuts made at Augusta National Golf Club. He will also have an intimate knowledge of Valhalla, having won the 2000 PGA Championship there. Woods returned to Valhalla in 2014 and missed the cut, but is a four-time winner of the PGA Championship and has also finished runner-up in this event on three other occasions. The model just finalized his Tiger Woods PGA Championship picks here..
How to Make Picks for the 2024 PGA Championship
The model also targets three other golfers with odds greater than 20-1 for a strong title run. Anyone who supports these longshot hypotheses could hit big. You can only see the model choices here.
Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship and what odds will surprise the golf world? Check out the 2024 PGA Championship odds below and later visit SportsLine to see the projected PGA Championship leaderboard, all from the model who has won 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters.
2024 PGA Championship Odds, Field
Get complete 2024 PGA Championship picks, best bets and predictions here.
Scottie Scheffler 3-1
Jon Rahm 10-1
Rory McIlroy 12-1
Ludvig Aberg 12-1
Brooks Koepka 12-1
Wyndham Clark 16-1
Xander Schauffele 18-1
Joaquin Niemann 22-1
Collin Morikawa 22-1
Patrick Cantlay 22-1
Viktor Hovland 25-1
Cameron Smith 25-1
Bryson DeChambeau 28-1
Max Homa 28-1
Hideki Matsuyama 30-1
Jordan Spieth 33-1
Justin Thomas 33-1
Cameron Young 35-1
Tony Finau 35-1
Matt Fitzpatrick 35-1
Tommy Fleetwood 40-1
Tom Kim 40-1
Dustin Johnson 40-1
Tyrrell Hatton 45-1
Min Woo Lee 50-1
Sam burns 50-1
Jason Day 50-1
Shane Lowry 50-1
Brian Harman 60-1
Sungjae I’m 60-1
Patrick Reed 65-1
Abraham Ancer 65-1
Russell Henley 65-1
Sahith Theegala 65-1
Louis Oosthuizen 75-1
Corey Conners 75-1
Keegan Bradley 75-1
Rickie Fowler 80-1
Adam Scott 80-1
Talor Gooch 90-1
Harris English 100-1
Justin Rosa 100-1
Si Woo Kim 100-1
Gary Woodland 100-1
Kurt Kitayama 100-1
Daniel Berger 100-1
Sepp Straka 100-1
Tiger Woods 125-1
Keith Mitchell 125-1
Phil Mickelson 125-1
JT Poston 125-1
Sergio Garcia 125-1
Myth Pereira 150-1
Billy Horschel 150-1
Eric Cole 150-1
Thomas Pieters 150-1
Ryan Fox 175-1
Seamus Power 175-1
Mackenzie Hughes 175-1
Denny McCarthy 175-1
Christian Bezuidenhout 175-1
Victor Pérez 175-1
Marc Leishman 175-1
Davis Riley 200-1
Adam Hadwin 200-1
Harold Varner III 200-1
Jason Kokrak 200-1
Robert MacIntyre 250-1
Francisco Molinari 250-1
Joel Dahmen 250-1
Aaron Sage 250-1
Steve Stricker 350-1
Block Michael 500-1
