Blake Davis
For the fourth time since 1996, Valhalla Golf Club will host a major championship when the 2024 PGA Championship begins on Thursday. The Jack Nicklaus-designed course in Louisville, Kentucky also hosted the 2008 Ryder Cup and two Senior PGA Championships (2004 and 2011). The 156-player PGA Championship field is packed with elite players, but none of them may be more notable than Tiger Woods, who won the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla. The 15-time major champion comes in at a long shot at 125-1 in the latest 2024 PGA Championship odds.
Is Woods worth a look at the 2024 PGA Championship, or should you bet on one of the favorites like Scottie Scheffler (3-1), Rory McIlroy (6-1), Brooks Kopeka (10-1), Xander Schauffele (12 -1) or Ludvig Aberg (12-1)? 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 $9,000 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 scored the second major victory of Rahm’s career 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: Collin Morikawa, with a 25-1 chance, has a good campaign for the title. He is a target for anyone looking for a big payday. The 27-year-old already has two major championships under his belt, the 2020 PGA Championship and the 2021 Open Championship, and is coming off a third-place finish at the 2024 Masters. Morikawa has three top-10s and six top-25s in 10 starts in 2024.
Morikawa has had a slow start to 2024 but has regained form in the last month. He followed his strong Masters performance with a ninth-place finish at the RBC Heritage against a Signature Event-caliber field and a top-25 finish at New Orleans’ Zurich Classic in late April. Morikawa is ranked 34th on the PGA Tour in both strokes gained from tee to green (.612) and strokes gained around the green (.288)
The model also examined where Tiger Woods ends up. Since he suffered a horrific leg injury in a car accident in February 2021, Woods has played sporadically. He has made seven world appearances in the last two years and had to withdraw from three of them due to injury or illness. However, he has made a point of trying to play on courses that have historical significance to him and that can be nostalgic for Valhalla.
Woods beat Bob May in a playoff to win his fifth career major championship and his second PGA Championship in 2000 and when he won the 2001 Masters eight months later, he became the first player in history to hold all four major titles at a turn. Tiger put together two solid rounds to open the 2024 Masters, but struggled over the weekend. However, completing a four-round event should serve as a confidence boost and Valhalla should be an easier ride for Woods than Augusta. The model just finalized his Tiger Woods PGA Championship picks here..
How to Make Picks for the 2024 PGA Championship
The model also targets four other golfers with odds of 25-1 or better to make a strong run at the title. 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 +300
Rory McIlroy +600
Brooks Koepka +1000
Xander Schauffele +1200
Ludvig Aberg +1200
Jon Rahm +1400
Joaquín Niemann +2500
Collin Morikawa +2500
Bryson DeChambeau +2500
Wyndham Clark +2500
Patrick Cantlay +2800
Cameron Smith +3300
Max Homa +3300
Viktor Hovland +3500
Hideki Matsuyama +3500
Will Zalatoris +4000
Justin Thomas +4000
Tommy Fleetwood +4500
Dustin Johnson +4500
Cameron Young +5000
Jason’s Day +5000
Matt Fitzpatrick +5000
Tyrrell Hatton +5000
Jordan Spieth +5500
Tony Finau +5500
Patrick Reed +6000
Byeong Hun An +6000
Sam Burns +6000
Shane Lowry +6000
Tom Kim +6000
Sungjae Im +6500
Dean Burmester +6500
Sahith Theegala +6500
Abraham Ancer +7000
Min Woo Lee +7500
Brian Harman +7500
Talor Gooch +8000
Keegan Bradley +8500
Akshay Bhatia +8500
Russell Henley +8500
Adam Scott +8500
Sepp Straka +8500
Si Woo Kim +9000
Tigre Forests +12500
David Puig +12500
Corey Conners +12500
Rickie Fowler +12500
Stephan Jaeger +12500
Denny McCarthy +12500
Phil Mickelson +12500
Jake Knapp +12500
Chris Kirk +12500
Billy Horschel +12500
Sergio Garcia +12500
Taylor Pendrith +12500
Adrian Meronk +12500
Austin Eckroat +15000
Mackenzie Hughes +15000
Alex Noren +15000
Harris English +15,000
Matthieu Pavón +15000
Ryan Fox +15000
Adrian Otaegui +15000
Justin Rosa +17500
Adam Schenk +17500
Keith Mitchell +17500
Mito Pereira +17500
Kurt Kitayama +17500
Daniel Berger +17500
Christian Bezuidenhout +17500
Emiliano Grillo +17500
Lucas Herbert +17500
Tom Hoge +17500
Victor Perez +17500
Erik Van Rooyen +17500
Lucas Glover +17500
Nicolai Hojgaard +20000
Eric Cole +20000
Jordan Smith +20000
Thomas Pieters +20000
JT Poston +20,000
Thomas Detry +22500
Ryan Van Velzen +22500
Cam Davis +22500
Thriston Lawrence +22500
Beau Hossler +22500
Aaron Rai +22500
Ben Griffin +22500
Nick Taylor +22500
Alex Smalley +22500
Brendon Todd +25000
Maverick McNealy +25000
Luke’s List +25,000
Nick Dunlap +25000
Davis Riley +25000
Adam Hadwin +25000
Marc Leishman +25000
Seamus Power +25,000
Ryō Hisatsune +27500
Matt Wallace +27500
Andrew Putnam +27500
Andy Ogletree +27500
Patrick Rodgers +30000
Doug Ghim +30000
Taylor Moore +30000
Sebastian Soderberg +30000
Adam Svensson +30000
Rasmus Hojgaard +30000
Robert MacIntyre +30000
Gary Woodland +30000
Lee Hodges +30000
Ben Kohles +30000
KH Lee +30000
Camillo Villegas +35000
Alejandro Tosti +35000
Taylor Montgomery +35000
Vicente Norrman +35000
Jesper Svensson +35000
Tim Widing +35,000
Charley Hoffman +40000
Mark Hubbard +40000
Keita Nakajima +40000
Zac Blair +50000
Francisco Molinari +50000
Joel Dahmen +50000
Pedro Malnati +50000
Sami Valimaki +50000
Takumi Kanaya +50000
Grayson Murray +50000
Alexander Bjork +50000
Martin Kaymer +75000
Kazuma Kobori +75000
Brice Garnett +75000
Michael Block +75000
Padraig Harrington +75000
Lucas Donald +75000
Jimmy Walker +75000
Ye Yang +100000
Jason Dufner +100000
John Daly +150000
Wyatt Worthington IV +150000
Tyler Collet +200000
Matt Dobyns +200,000
Josh Speight +200,000
Braden Shattuk +200000
Brad Marek +200000
Tracy Phillips +200,000
Evan Bowser +200,000
Josh Bevell +200,000
Larkin Gross +200,000
Rico Beem +200,000
Zac Oakley +200000
Jeremy Wells +200,000
Preston Cole +200000
John Somers +200,000
Ben Poland +200000
Kyle Mendoza +200000
Jared Jones +200,000
Shaun Michael +200,000
Jeff Kellen +200,000
Jesse Mueller +200,000
Andy Svoboda +200000
